Issismir inaktrolit.ion. .
Ta. Itimmon, :Emma 1 • pub isua evely
nim.a* mortar, b 7 g 'lli Wasp et Two
Dollars per annum, Is sitessee.. -
arat i dertlelnif In all mess eitinslsS sabaseti.
tine to t f. paper.
:;SPF LICOTICES Inserted M swims aims Sr
line for Or' insertion. aid lams' carts per Una far
suro.eoMmt I:mentions:
L oci+ soncEd, same Style as rending Misr,
err *n orsrs llne. -
ADvESTIRIMENTI3 aria bar inserted wording IS
the follbulns table of rates: .
fcr i ch i I $1.50 1 LOO 1 5.00 1 Lomas° is is
- _
a I n dies . I, 2.00 I Lao 1 8.001 lass 1 ism 1 scies
---_.
5 inches', 1 2.50 1 7.00 I 10.00 1 13.09 1 20.001 &LOD
i inches 1 1, 3.00 I 8.50 1 14410 1 1825 195.001 85.00
_ ...—_ _
i,C colllnoo I 3.00 112.00 1'13.00 1 22.00 1 30.00 1 45.00
i.irolnmnitil.oo-126061110.004 so.on j 65.00 1 78.00
I Calm** 1 20.00 I 40.00 1 60.00 1 80.00 I 11100 1 8100
-ailminlstrstnr's anitExacittor'elgottere: 81; Mat.
t.r.a Natters. $,2 ant timidness Carda„ll7B time, (per
..I SI vidltlonal tines 51 each.
f , ' • - -. 4;. , ' '
Yearly trimness are e titled to quarterly ebanes.
.14
Trsoyfen advertisernen ronatbe paid Tarim ad
e re.
kit Re olotinos of 4. 01111 I' nominiTilleirtinue
of I,l 4 tes en. Wllvltin 'ntprrott. an /1 notfoea of Mar
rs 7 q, qn I lieqthe, tisreeding five lines, • are charged
,„ r,r.:- . -1, per lane.
- r,„ Rrponrralptvine a lamer elrenlatton than MI
th. „,r.., tr. the (lona'''. combined. make., It tb• beat
..o ...p r ti..ne in tqltnm in Northern Pentwytesnia.
Jill: r INTTN'tlnf ever? kind. 1n Inatir and Pane,
rpm.. ,1 nn witirnestnesa anti Aterieteh• Illantnalts.
l o , n k.. arAP. Pamphlets. Ailtl essla. fitateraente. he.
of ~prq variety and ~tote. printed at the shortest
~.;,.. 1? Thermion (Mew la Wen sortfilkst
an
pp ,. , I sews a eon(' aasortment nt new tyre. and
gqq-ethi ein the Priatias line can be execnte4l in
the ,neAt ,•ti!atie manner awl at the Unrest .rates
T relp: A,11.7 A TIT *jay n.4,e17,
BUSINESS C=S.
L TING LEY, Lieensted AuP
,,er. Rome. Pa. All cells promptly 'Atm,-
111•31.;$370
C:1.
'WALLACE
Sp, SIGN AND FR.KATO rAINTER.
As. IR7O-yr
EEC
, TITTDDELL & S ANDERSON
LE
end Shlpperts of the
ANTIIITACIT 4 E COAL.
1111 Towanda.
grrl
mr.r;
VIWIP2s7I I . INSITR ANTI`
N - r ..._efnee formerly neemolo.l by Merenr
.. one ion; eV/nth of Vfani Tfnniw.
C
~!~-r.
marl M•7O
W. 1)11111Me1, D6nlPr in all
• ri ,l o‘ Tincelne -AP
nr Ttnnttne nrnmptly attnnfleii tn. Plirtiertlar
PiVt.:l tn Cottage and French Roofing.
A 71
Ti•
. 1
r , •••
at* '
lIE
FOWLER. REAL 'ESTATE
T. 171:. 'No. Inn Waphirkon Strout hp
4zlll. and Well. Strist.tm:cydottroAlltnnt.
it. rolrol..rod :Ind sold. tnrePtmento mail.
, pv T.9anc..l. ?iTav
_R.
t,orn T
Ps 1
an
%RS - NRIVG,
1111
AND rrrrsn in all s faßhinnnhlr
ahnrt nntie.n. -RflflM in Mornr's Nor
en-at.over Rater Trne
MRS., H. E. nArtv.rs.
na. Pa.. April 11. IR7O.
tvlra n
B 1 k,
ESE
I - WORN? OF ALT, RtsllS
eh HP FWITMITIR, eITItT.S.II,7I , ITT4I. TIM
, e., ina , lo in thr hoot mannor anahttf.i.tvh.
rpr. - 1 Tr. , 11 , P 'ilnrhor nap. Terms ream:Table
41A, P, , .. T. I‘C4. ' .
TT ‘.
iTTC.
tl do
T,OTID RROS.. GonProl Fir
i d T.; fr Inwroncp .4gprev. rnvorciir
liubt ,, inn in Arrnrnin7
r cenlpanloa. withmN Tio , A;Vnn , '
17. Tt (lIVTAPTI,
S. C. GATLnitp. _
rffl
1 ..... ar
n• 1 rti
et ,- .
W% 07
m=i ll iii l iim
t)TfN E BLA rws.irrTn,
'N'Ttorrnl.: PA.. paro nartlenlar attrnfinn tr
Ifincgieq, Waunna. Strirha. kr_ Tins lark and
donieon Abort notice. 'Wort and - rharszra
f.r.l f.at'Ffart,`r.v. '12.15,4119.
n'
•I
ironing I
rpnnirin
guarant.
- 11' ,
i A
„,
'OS _ PF,'..7sTYP ACKER. HAS
,0-o,lkbo him.Pll in the. vat,rint'sYs
(1;1 overrneltwoll'in -Rthre. Wort or
I,P,riptinn a f lno. in Ow Ilteßt t 1 tyl 4.
11. 1 , 470 —lf •
I .A.TSVILLE IV6OLEN MILE
Br TN
f•crrc
Eca
DI
n•ler;:.",cur,l would requrrtfully annnonce to
tir that br r‘Thatantly on hard Wonleri
Fl.Annpla. Varna. and all kinds at
and r.-fail. BRO4DI,F.T.
Tl
the n •i
rd...
S. •
C•
S. "PT'S r, -14 L
G=RAL
C E AGEArC Y
rsz
EMI'
TAILOR SHOP
lig
H. SPACLLIN9
1,1 a tailn: sbnp over rellnrn k
rket. formerly.oceupied by .1. H. Cary. Tai
11 At M
or. 11,ni lone exper;enecc lie feel. confident he
Ile ;:ivf full .11i.fletion Cutti g done at alt Unite.
: T, A. and., 'July 10,'71.-3ro ,11. SPAULDING.
---
WY TON k BROTHER,
J)e.lers In
'L, HIDES. PELTS, CALF
SEINS, Frits.
EON
thr- c 3.11 prire In paid st all -Una
it0",:.1.,!1'6 Store, Malu-at.,
F rwi
Of`
1. , t1 - TOn.
vroN, TOWANDA . PA
UNDERSIGNED HAVE
I.lf , I a Banking Ihinse is Towanda, under the
•; F. IT.xsos & co.
are pr,mared to draw Bite of Exchange. and
p,tion s in Now York. Philadelphia. and all
of the T'r4ied States, as also Eagland. Ger
aud l'cancr. To loan money. receive deposits.
t do a general Banking business. .
Niason .Vas 0n0.:,.f the late firm of Laporte.
0),ot Towanda. Pa.. and his knowledge of
nim of Bradford and adjoining counties
an: baNlinq ',en in the- banking business for about
!it nrFi tnak.. - this house ade Airahle one throughl, make collections: G. F. 14 tSON.
:,v1,3 L, ( 1. rat - A. 'A. G. MASON.
liii
NT 4 :IV F . IT:M ! '
11' GOODS, LOW P.T:ICE,,,
. AT masr.or.Tos, FA
TRACY & HOLLON,
N.L.1, - .T.1 in 'dr.:Tries and Provisions, Drnga
and Vi.dicalcs, I...rf.,tir oil. Lamps. Chimueyg,
Dv rdnifT. Pun,;... this. Varnigh. Yankee No.
C...•az, and 3 , nlift. Pure Wines mid
toe purposcit
i1;1 +:nixie ~1 , 1 at the !neat priers. Pre
virefully at, all hours of the
and Lied. Cove nn a esti.
TRACT & ROLLO'S.
J•l7 - .. , 24. 114(19—:Iv.
( 1 14:.!11) PASSAGE FRON OR TO
OtELA.I) OR ENGLASIS:
S'): OF SITANMITP4 FLOM OR ZO
OR LIVERPOOL.
.t old •• Black Srta Liuo" of Liv
re '1 wok et's. ail.nn.everr' week.
' , wallow-tan Lir, of P,.,cliuta from or to London.
tv:we a Inonth.
~11Fes to England. IralanJ and Scotland pay
et'lJ
ertl.• r parikealar4. apply R"iMama k. Onion,
4 1"••....vay New Yore. or
0. F. MASON & liankfira, -
ToNianda, Pa,
=ME
.111 ETERS'BURG _MILLS
xnEvr, nyt, AND UTCKWIWAT
F Li
0
(CORN :TEAL, AND FEED
, r-tar.t:7 tan,: ami for bale cluf . 3p fir
C'ra(M. WOltif WAP.I4NTEI)
1 •
ta.n.l qtlaDtity cf GROUND CAYerGA
from Old longer Beds
W— al. Cozo and tiat.i taken in exchange for
P .-r
xi
STEAM FLOURING ILL
IN SYIESiIEQUIN,
, 4 no , duslres 'give noncl that Igo new
SE
.‘: . :11 'FLOURING lIILL
1,,:
op-ratton. and Ailed. be ifl pra:
In Ltno ou abort notice. - -
(11:1:CLIN , .; 'OJNE ON Ti1t.1...11P. _PAY
IT IS ItECEIVED
uaeaabeat a!ht Rye klour, Coru Meal,
I:4'e. Ltr,J, always ou baud and for sale at
NOTlCE.—Person, livinge on the
i• riser deoiring to patronize my mill,
!! 1 ! • ' I, , ryane paid both ware, when they
-! , rtni haehein and uP'frards•
F. S. AYERS.
A
thig place Au/ Dr. C. M. Elias
-1-1-1 i,:rme.l a eopartueoolup for the
r;t
.N.EW FIRM
1 , 1-Nrtsrl...• -Is ALL irs ultAscliEs
+ ''i , i ,4 1. , f0 , 111,1z.t Ilie °Mee of . De.
prepared
over
i A -I.lr n A: tila,:a'n stort in Towatria. prepared at
,-. t , tr,it patient" Lti a tirist-ilara manner.
rk warrantet as rt-F..q....nt , 1.
4 ettr,Via wdh , int p.tio, by 'the nee of.
:in—:in 1
ii Oznle Owl. '
z. bt . ../ I.ey iriil be et Ida o: h•._ to Xilterna on Sa
n:Uri-nit Alondaya =Au farther notice.
Aut. 30,71.4 f E.ELLY tic brAXLEY.
S.- 'W. 4.I4 4 VCAR.JD' t 1:0E!Lbli
VOLUME XXXII.
Paon=NAL .OLIEDI
1 - lUM WOOD. A.Tromonr: Am)
eN Comm:mos AT Law. Towanda.. Pa. .
ENRY PEET, ATTORNEY AT .
TAir. Towanda. AL. Jaw ST. IL -
191711. FOYLE, ATTORNEY AT
v • LAM. Towanti, Whim with num=
ilimitiOtputh side Norm's Bloch. April 14,
Li M ITH k MONTAME, ATTO
wrrs Le Law. OSles—ixeser of Zits
101 l
Pine Streets, opposite Posteee Dmi Sloes.
ter ` lT B. KELLY, DENTIST. OF
I • Ace OM IWickham Tonooo,,Po.
May 94.'70.
,- N nlt. FL WESTON, DENTIST.-:
,DR
In Podia's Block. over Gores Drug_
_sad
Pin is.
P. . WILLISTON' L - •
ATTOILVEY AT LAW. TOWANDA.
South side of Mercer's New Block. up stairs.
Aptil9l.lo—K:'
ELER.
B. 31 o ICE AN, ATTORNEY
11. AND COIDNOCLZ•OI AT Lew, Towanda. Pa PAD
Mola t. r attention • 4 to losainor In the Orph ' ism'
r`onr July X. t 4.
I v H. C • • OMAN, A.TTOR•
• WIT AT W rtriCCAttOTIMI tot Brad
ford ComitT). Toy. Pa. Beef:lois made *ad prompt,
, y remitted. fats U. 1119—tL
T &D. C. DEwl.l.l, Attorneyx-d
-• I tem. Towanda. PA., having formed • co-part
nership; tender their professional services to the
nubile. Special attention given to EVERY DERLET
VEIZT of the business, at the county seat or else
where. ' . JACOB DIMITY, •
D. CLINTON MATES
•
Towarni, Pa., Dec. 12,18'!0. , •
TOM S ' N. CAUFF, ATTORNEY
• AT LOAF. T01111413a14 PS. Plllslo2llll* attention gts.
sat to Orphans' Court business, Cutnsoobtit
r . ollertioss. ;fir Mrs ID Wood's new r wk. south
of the First National Bank. up stairs. •
Feb. 1. Mt
PATTV.RN
H. WARNER,' Phyaician and
C. a ttend ed
toe, Bradford Co.. Pa. An
, alla promptly n . Mon Mit door Krafft
of Len:Lyn-file House.
Sept. 15, 1570.-yr ..
nvERTON & ELSBREE, Arron
vf sty.. LT Low, Tovrszela, Pa., having entered
nto copartnership. offer their professional services
to the public. Special attention given to business
in the Orphan's and Ilegister's Courts. tip' W7O
C. OVERTON, /V. N. c.. cuteuzz.
tJERCUR & DAVIT'S, ATTOR
wars AT LAW. Towanda, Pa. The undersigned
haring associated themselves together in the practice
of Law. offer their professional services to the public.
lILYRSES MEB.CI7II. W. T. DANTES.
March 9. 1870.
xv A. B: M. PECKS LAW
v • OFFICE
Main street, opposite the Court Mouse, Tdwands, Pa.
Oct. 27.•10
A. KEENEY, COUNTY SU
• PEEINtENDEINIT, Tairanda. Pa. Ottleswlth
R. M. Perk. seemad door below the Ward House.
Will be et the °Mee the last Saturday of each month
and at all other times when not called sway on.brod
ness connected With the Stweritendency. An letters
should hereafter be addressed as above. dec..1.111
,BEN. MOODY, M.D.., .
YHYSICIIN AND SMIGEON.
Offers his professional services to the people of Wy
ainsinc and vicinity. Of and residence at A. J
Lloyd's, Church street. - Al:m.10.10
Proprietnr.
DR. J. W. LYMAN,
. Pirrstrum LID Arnomm.
• Office one dent eat or Reporter building Res
Bence. cnrner Pine and 2nd street.
Towanda. June 22. 1871.
TOWANDA,-PA
TOFUW. MIIY, ATTORNEY AT
PJ Raw. Towanda. Bradford Co.. Pa.
GENERAL' INSURANCE AGENT.
Particular attention paid to Collections and Orphans'
Celle: 'business. Otßce--Ifercur's New Block, north
side Public Square. apr. 1.
T\OCTOR 0. LEwiS, A GRlDEr
ate of the College of -Physicians and Burgeons,"
New Volt city. Class 1143-4. gives exclusive attention
to the practice of his profession. Office and residence
en the eastern slope of Orwell 11111. adjoining Henry
Howe's. Jan 14.19.
DR. D. D. S3IITH, Dentist, has
purchased . 0. N. Wood'. property. between
itereur's Block and the Elwell tionse. where he has
10 , Ated hie office. Teeth extracted without pale by
use of Fail.' Towand Oct. 20. Ift7o.—y[.
•
DINING ROOMS
IN CONNECTION WITH THE BLICERY.
Near the Court House.
We are prepared to feed the hungry at all limos of
the day and evening. Oysters and : Ice Cream In
their Reasons:
Jarch 30. Drlo. D. W. scorr co.-
•
E LWELL HOUSE, TOWAIsTDA,
rA.
JOHN C. wriscis
V•aFt.d this House, is now ready to lecoratno.
rint, th e travelling public. Not:mins norerpenee will
..pared to give Faintraction to those who may give
him a cad.
Wg-tiortb side of the public square, east of 31er•
cues new block.
P IMIXIERFMT CRERR
_LI)HO
TEL.
PETER LAND3ItS ' SEn,
flayim , ' purchased mad tharonghly refitted this old
Ind well-known stand. formerly kept by Sheriff °rif
fle, at the mouth of liummerfield Creek, Is ready to
give good accommodations and satisfactory treatment
to all who may favor him with a call.
Dec. 23. BGB—tf.
%JEANS HOUSE, TOWANDA,
ILL Pa.,
CCM. XL= )—str. Inman art/arra.
The Horses, Harness.- kc of all gueits of this
house, insured against loss by fire, without any ea.
tra charge.
A superior quality of Old Ea4lish Hass Ale, just
received. JORDA3,
Towanda, Jan. 24.'71. Proprietor:
B RADFORD HOTEL,
TOWANDA, PA. .
The subsriber having leased and lately fitted up
the above Hotel. lately kept by him as a saloon - arid
boarding house, on the sonth aide of BRIDO2
sTREET, next to the rail-road, la now ;prepared to
entendin the public with good accontuslationa on rea
sonable charges. No trouble or expense will he
spared to arommodate those calling on him. His
bur will be furnished with.choico'branda of Cigars,
Liquors. Ales, &c.
Go .d Stabling attached. WM. HENRY.
Towanda, Juno 1,1871.•tol May 72 Proprietor.
WARD HOUSE, •
•
TOWANDA, •
' BRADFORD COUNTY, PENN'A.
This pnotilar .honse, recently leased by Messrs.
Koos & MEANS. and having been completely refitted,
remodeled. and refurnished: affords to the pnblio
all the comforts and modern conveniences of a first
:gags lintel. Situate opposite the Park on Main
Street. it is eminently convenlenttfor persona risit
ing yourands, either-for pleasure o business. ,
septil SOON k MEANS, Proprietors.
R. 1
MI
LOSSES LIBERALLY ADJUST
ed and promptly paid. Insure In the
GERHAN OSURARCE COM:PANT, or ERIE. PA.
Authorized Capital $5 O OOOO
Cash Capital 1200.000
SCHLAPDECSER. Pres. P. A. BECKER. Treas.
BREVIT tIER Vice Pres. D. H. KUHR Sep.!
J. A. RECORD. Agent.
Towanda. Pay
IL IL alma.
auc2'7l
CHARLES F. DAYTON,
•
r successor to Humphrey Bros.,
HARNESS MAKER,
Over Moody's Store,.
K.cps on hand a full assortment of DOUBLE and
EINOLE HARNESS: and all other goods in his htie
'Repairing and manufacturing done to order.
• Towanda, August 23. 1871.
\TEW FIRM
THOS. MUlat & Co
Respectfully saanounce Ito the public In general, the
they have opened a large and choice stock of
GROCERIES AND PROVLSIONS,
In the store formerly occupied, by John Meridatti,
corner Lein and Franklin streets, Towanda, which
they will E.Ol as cheap as the cheapest for -
CASH !
Mimi will always find Tow Mizniarrn there, Just as
happy as ever, to wait upon all old customers and as
many new ones as will favor them with a call.
TSAR. at m. T£loB. Mtlltt & co. .
21103. MLILIDLTIL Oct. IS, 1811.
TRY 011 R TEAS AND COFFEE,
COWELL lITAL
Hotels.
AND NEW GOODS;
LEM
itluteb Inky.
VERSION OP CASABIASCA.
f i
The stood_on.the burning deck
Aea peanuts by the peek,
' Thees that lit that battle wreck
' Just inged his hair a li ttle speck.
"Fa er 1" he cried, in accents wild.
"Oo e and eat peanuts with your child l",
Htit of a ward his fattier paid, ' '
Beca , you see, his " dad was dead' i
Thewas the flames grew hot and hotter,
He ought of-taking to the water;
Bat be couldn't bear to go, L
Beca be loved the peanuts so.
A that childlike voice he raises,
- He outs aloud, he yells like biases ;
4 "Fat er, if you don't come to me,
ru tick your peanuts in the sea I"
No irer greets his =ions ear,
Alon 1 in all his glory there,
Mid or sea-gulls and wild ducks,
rankling flames and peanut shucks.
little boy, how sad thy fate 1
to for peanuts, oh how great,
tory sinks down in my heart, -
' lly the peanut ,part.
Kid I Poor
Tby
Thy
Espoi
'Tis t us great poets make great names—
It little boy-es in the flames, I
The' readers sigh, "Poor little dears !"'
And odly melt await to tears.
Takl Yoiing'Amexiea from school—
Nokly, sentimental fool—
Pla him in Casabiarica's stead,
Theihm
'oa fire,lis father dead, - 1 •
,D'yo s'poso he'd stand and yell and hailer,
,En • he burst his paper collar,
And hen not knosi enough to go
Unl a soineb&ly told him so ?,
iir; ho wouldn't make that blunder,
He'd let the pesky ship go under ;
Instoul of sticking to his post,
You'd see him steering for the coast.
!Two l uld spoil the romance of the sto s ry,
Two l uld take away the hero's glory,
And ! ,, oet's heroes can't dispense
With glory just for common sense.
ballmteous.
[For the REPORTZZA
DAYS AMONG THE DERRICKS.
No. IL
TWO
n Arvoan : So we are here,/ at
lin, a city of about six thbas
'habitants, and the county at
nango county. Most of the
s and other buildings her; are
Fran;
and
of V!
bons!
paint •d a dark brown, and' those no
pain •d so, are so colored by the cin
ders itnd smoke from the soft coa
which is burned here almost tmicer
sally. It produces a thick,.,
smoke; which is affectionately inclin
ed to clean shirts, and embraces eve
ry opportnnity to display its regards.
Here we have a new, large, fine
hotel! called the " Exchange " ; and
now that we have got a good night's
rest, and a good " square " breakfast,
running through a long bill of fare,
we will " exchange " our greenbacks
for the value received and take a tour
of observation around the city.
Here we are in-the midst of the
"heavy " or " lubricating" oil field.
There are no wells of importance
here in the city, nor indeed on the
flats at •all, but the derricks that spot
the hillside, and loom up from the
hill top, show that this oleaginous
fluid is being " called from the vasty
deep,' iu the ituhiediate vicinity.
Right across from the town, • over
vainst the steep hillside, see the
walking beams, playing ever with
their slow measured stroke like the
beaM of a steamboat.
The hill is so steep here that one
cannot ride a horse up - without
" shearing" around by the artificially
dog roads, and yet platforms are lev
elled off from the side hill, and der-
ricks set up almost on the top of
each other. The bores here are very
small, and oil is almost sure in mod
erate quantities, but not to exceed
fifty or sixty barrels per day, and
most of them not doing more than
five.
Away over the forest covered hill.
to the north, we can see an Occasion
al derrick and a. column of smoke
curling up above the trees.
" Here we are now across the river
and down below the c.ty, so we will
take a general view of the country
and return to the city. And now we
are at Wilkes Booth's tract: Gut there
is nothing hero of interest, except
the name of the infamous owner, and
in this, a great deal of the " bluster "
of other places of resort iis not unlike
A beautiful Court House adorns
the city, and ai fine pavement eight
or ten feet wi)e of broad flag-stones
taken from he adjacent hillside,
serves as a sidewalk throughout the
city.
Franklin shall not sink— the foot
pavement shall save it, for it would
do honor to any city in the lat.d.
Now it is time to depart for Titus
ville, and we will take the " Jimtown
road." At last wq arrive at Oil City
again, passing thzbugh a tunnel at
the point of the mountain near the
city, as dark as erebus. Now don't
tremble so, my dear sir, on approach
ing Oil City. lam afraid what I said
induces you to distrust humanity,
and especially our fellow citizens of
Oil City.
Here is the usual immense crowd,
and here come the hotel porters,
each putting forward his peculiar
claim to the patronage of the public.
Some are dusky sons of Ethiopia,
&nee are the pure Caucasians, but
frOm the whole company, "good
Lord, deliver us." I look at the sun
right 'Va. the tops of their heads,
thea look at my watch, and when one
of them sidles up to me and looking
into my face with a seductive smile,
offers to take charge of my person
and estate, and relieve me from care
during my natural life, I take tLe
breath out of him by simply inquir
ing how soon we can get to Titus
ville, and whether it would help mat
ters an 7 by taking it on foot'at once.
But Oil City is a busy place, and
for business men not excelled, per
hapii, by any point in western Penn
sylvania. A very. fine new Baptist
church edifice, sits pleasantly and in
vitingly on the sidehill, and other
churches of good proportions are
scattered through the city. There is
a public libriCry, open to all the good
pile of the town, with a good se
lectiOn of books, and I am tolkwell
patronized. A polite and agreeable
young lady waits on the wants of
the public as "librarian," and I see
no reason why the rising generation
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fOWaVA:, fiRADFOiD COUNTY; PA., .DECEMBER 14,18714
shouldirow up hi:nomes*" tits
tom”."Biograpby " or "TanreL"
But here; aa I said foruji*, is the
oil business -carried to Its 'limits.
Wells are aettuilly in the dooryards
of residences, whistles: from the ' en
gines are blowing off in the flower
garden; and there is a general air:,
panne" of--grease'/ 'throughout all'
the lower portion of the city. Updn
the high ground we find many fine
houses, and indeed in many instances
the city on the' heights wears'n de
gree of comfort almost bordering on
elegance.
But we are now on board the. ears
en route for Ilitzumile, and so we have
occasion to pass through the small
but lively towns of Bouseville, Tarr-
Farm, Reyn-Farm, Petroleum, Center
etc.
It is almost a continuous city from
Oil City all the way up the creek. It
is gCod oil territory almost the whole
distance, and the production since
1862-3 must hare been immense.
Petroleum Qenter is the liveliest of
the towns along the route, and has
the reputation of being. the moat
abandoned to 'vice and disorder of
any town in the oil regions : indeed,-
for a time it was thought that all the
gamblers, thieves and burglars had '
met there in convention; but this
was only transient, for they at last
found similar difficulties . to encoun
ter that they bad met eliewhere, to
wit : policemen. I suppose there are
nearly three thousand inhabitants in
the town. And after passing through
these intermediate points, and while
we are discussing the country, we
turns sharp curve in the railroad
and come whirling into Titusville.
Here are a number of oil refineries,
situated on the lower lines of the
city, and they send out such an aro
ma as only can come from a refinery,
and to one who is accustomed to it
the fact is patent to hia olfactory
senses that oil refining is the chief
business industry in the vicinity. An
eastern farmer would have become
disgusted with the course of nature
long before this, in this country, as
the country from Oil City; to this
point presents a surface adapted to
anything but farming. The valley
of Oil Creek is narrow and tortuous,
with bluffs and uneven expanses of
woods and stumps. The creek flows
with a shiggish motion, covered at
all times with a slimy and odorifer
ous. refits° of distillery : waste and
crude oil.
Now allow me, dear sir, to intro
duce to you the finest city in the oil
regions, Titusville. . It has nine thous
and inhabitants. It lies on a low,
level plain a mile or mile and a half
wide by say two miles long, present
ing a situation really delightful.
There is one view of the matter that
strikes the eye of a staanger as really
anomalous. Here is a city with its
surging multitudes and vast material
interests, but lying on a stream of
water which a boy might wade al
most, at any season of the year. 'The
adjl
'
adjoining hills are covered with a
gro th of pine, oak and other Aim
be , and presents on some sides a
vie of unbroken forest.
B t this is a little deceptive, for
the are out at least two roads from
, the ity fine farm lands.
• C•ming into the main thorough
fare: from the beautiful and substan
tial epot buildings, we see the city
is b • "It mostly of brick, and the shop
win .1 ows fairly blazing with splendor
and wealth, discover i at once to the
tra eler that here is the monetary
cen , er of this district ; some dry
goo s stores carry from sixty to one
hun , d thousand dollars worth of
stoeN, and I was credibly informed
tha . the sales of one house for private
and individual use, in anticipation of
a .. • 'n wedding, were ten thous
and E
at all this is of no consequence,
lFFpt as it serves to illustrate the
urces of the country. No sensi
rSon cares a fig how much mo
lora 3,lcFlitasey spends .to get
I.e.s
mething to wear," or how many
dressed idiots there are in soci
or how much or how fast the ig
nt beggar of yesterday rides his
today-; still the statistics of
evelopment and all dependent
1 , it, are and must be of interest
very thinking mind, as it certain
becoming one of the most im
ant interests of the State.
exc
res.
We
nev
ile I write this, cargoes of ro
il od are being unloaded in
them Africa and Eastern Asia.
fin -,
So .1
I promised to give you a brie
ske hof society in my last, but must
re " ark thatdo be known well it must
be seen. YS - ti must first be inform
ed that not one person in twenty-five
has a residence of five years' stand
ingl in any locality here. They are,
people who have tome from the four
quarters of the globefrom Europe,
Canada, and all tile States, east,
weiit, north - and south. Many of
them, it is true, adventurers from
the_rebel and union armies, but moat
of them simply energetic business
men, called here bythat restless spir
it of enterprise that Who very nerve-
We i atour civilization; and like the
residents of the Pacific States, you
seldom meet a man that doesn't cab
some other place "home." Yet here
we find many magnificent residences,
furnished inside and finished outside
in all the completeness that taste and
wealth can conceive or execute.
Some have been erected during the
last year ara cost of not less than
thirty-five thousand dollars. The
dwellings are all tastily designed and
pleasantly situated. •
I have never seen anything outside
of the sea-board cities equal in "style"
to 1 the "turn-outs" on the street
where the "fast " driving is done,'
and you may Wan say that there is a
goo' d deal of it done. I speak now
of 1 pleasure driving. The serviee
ma koz is an institution of itself—the
wagon used - univerially here for rid
ing, or business, over the hills and`
through the valleys, is a peculiar ;
thing, called a " buck-board ? ' *etc:
ally with iron axletrees and ii;
set of, say tenor twelve half-springs
or lhalf elipses of steel, resting each
end on the axletree, an d "th the
convex sidemp supportin the seat.
It is impossible to tip on over, and
no' live mannr beast ciin break one.
They are sometimes made with high
cushioned seats, and/tops, and look
very elegant: in stiCh cases coining
frotti :One _innuir9d and twenty' to
two hfindred dollars. ' But the great
1
gliftit6.l4l ea' inawrourtoit 7101 r mix (mimes.
institution of
s onryancil here thro'•
out the whole country (if we may ex
cept Thus i le and TidiOute partially,
*here proPartiocitely more.wagons
Pre used), is the saddle-horse. •
The first thing a man does when
be gets a." etas." is to buys saddle
horse, and with the regular army
saddle, (and you see none other) his
rubber coat or blanket strapped in a
roll behind, he dashes along, present
ing quite a martiaLappearance.
A great excibmuint was caused
heree in Titusville recently by the
falling of a superb five story brick
blOck. It fell at'eleveli o'clock P M.,
`knocking a hole in the side of the
Tarshall Opera House._ large enough
to drive a sma ll load okhay through,
crushing in a wood &l(ding, and
killing one person. There was some
kimi of theatrical performance in the
:Opera House at the tune, but, no
panic occurred. I will remark here,
by the way, that there is a first class
opera house and hotel combined in
lone block, built by a citizen of Tidi
mute as a speculation, at a cost of
one hundied and twenty thousand
dollars.
There is now in process of con
struction a network of railroads with
Titusville as a center, which will ma
terially affect and alter the railroad
map of the preseht. A line will run
through from Tidionte to Erie, also
a branch for branches passing off to
connect ' with the Pithole road at that
place, and also to Petroleum Center,
connecting with the " Jinitown "
road direct for Cleielaled, by way of
Oil City and Franklin.
But I beg to guard you fro fall
ing into the general (or at l est too
general) notion that " everything is
lovely," and that in this country !a
laboring man or a-capitalist has only
to stay one night and return home
fabulously rich.
I am doubtfull if there is a place
anywhere, where there is so little a
percentage of hopes realized ! and that
is equivalent to saying that there is
a. vast deal of baffled endeavors,
blasted hopes, and crushed aspira
tions in the matter of fertile hunting.
Neither is it a role that the million
aires pf to-day were the beggars of
yesterday; on the contrary, in a large
majority of cases, those who possess
the wealth are those who have toiled
and worked night and day for years,
gaining step by step, (long " steps "
may be) until they could command
as well as comprehend a good thing
in a business way. Speaking of the
falling of the building just now, re
minds me that it is owned by the
proprietor of the patent right for the
making and use of the " nitro-glycer
ine tornedws." Those-are terrible
little things thirty times as powerful
as the same balk of rifle powder—a
little case like the half of a dinner
horn, filled with glycerine run down
by a wire to the bottom of the well;
a little weight silently slid down af
ter it, striking a cap, a bullet is dis
charged, which enters the can of gly
cerine, precisely as if it were shot
from a gun; this etplodes it : a low,
rumbling sound, the water shoots up
sometimes a hundred feet out of the
,well—the rock has been shattered
away down, down, maybe six or
eight hundred feet ; the machinery
is set to work again, and the torpedo
which cost, say ninety' dollars, has
increased the flow of oil from thirty
to forty barrels per day. That is
why people will continue to ' kill
themselves and each other with ni
tro-glycerine.
I must not forgot to mention that
since I wrote you my last, a new
strike has been made on old territo
ry at Pithole, where a well - has flow
ed as high as a thousand barrels per
day, which eclipies neighing of the
kind daring the last five years at
at least.
Pithole was at one time consider
ed the best prOducing oil field in
the district, brit it ran down .to a
mere wreck. I would dare to say
that the very land upon which this
new well is, might have been bought
for one hundred
. dollars per acre
within one year; now the single well
is sold for over .seventy thousand
dollars.
I simply state facts; let those spec
ulate and theorize on the rise or de
cline of the oil interests who have
talent and taste for the effort.
But I must cut my letter off. I
find I am "carrying the thing too
far." I will *rite yon the rest at
some future time. And now imagin-,
ing for the nitment that you have
been with maall the • time and seen'
all that , ' have seen, I will 'ask yon,
of the oil regions, as the Yankee ask
ed Brigham Young, of matrimony,
" How do you like it as far as eQU
hare goner D. D: F.
kirs4ipssAo:4s4:l:(elij:ll
No* that so many families are set
tling down in their homes for the so
ber and serious work of the year, we
would like to make a suggestion in
the interest of the little ones. Why
not, in their behalf, set apart an hour
each day, to be definitely known as
" The Children's Hour,' and to be
made as pleasant and as .useful to
them as the combined resources of a
_Christian household will permit ?
The very best houriorsuch a pur
pose will be that immediately follow
ing an early tea, or (better still) a
late dinner. Then the whole family
will be together; and the older mem
bers will need rest and recreation,
which they will best see re by giving
themselves—body, mind and soul—
for an'hour or so to little ones who
make borne happy for them. 'Owing to
the rush and whin of business, many
chillAtn grow up now-a-days in prac
tietdlignoisace of the father whom
thpy are bound to love and obey,
while the father is equally ignorant
/of the childish natures which he tis
bawd, to train, govern and develop.
The older brothers and sisters in a
family, too, with their own studies,
their own business or their own plea
-tures to engross their attention—get
in the way of practically absolving ,
themselves from all but the most im
perative responsibility for the irelfare
and happrpiness of the little ones of
the household. On the patient, over
burdened, much enduring mother,
pretty Finch all the-work of guiding,
governing and amusing thelambs of
the tlpcir depends:
Why should father settle down, as
soon as he has batted his supper, to
"! r
I=
his' ewspaper or his bank ecoount,
Joh; to his book, and Hary and
Benny to their plans for.to-morrow's
party ? Haven't they some reepon 7
sibility for the welfare of yaw() and
Charlie and Susie? And shouldn't
they feel and manifest some practical
interest int those little 1 4
* prattlers
Wouldn't they do two hours' work
between seven and eight, fore good
romp -between six and seven ? Do
not the clamors and bickerings of the
ntirslings -- who have exhausted,
hours ago, their slender stock of pa
tience and their scanty moans of
amusement—plead for some better
...inder than "Do stop yournoise?"
" .7 stop their nose for the M—f
ather and mother, brother and sisters
—by giving the little ones it right
good time before they lay their early
heads on their pillows ? Yon won't
mind their noise, you know, when
von are making twice as much your
*selves.
-There are a great many things.
which may be done to make the
Children's Hour a season of joy to
the childish heart. We don't object
ourselves to a good round game of
" Blind.Man'Er Buff," or "Puss in the
Corner;" but if mamma thinks that
is too exhilarating for the hour just
before bed-time, there is still 'enong,h
to be done-to make the time -pass
pleasantly. - The Practical mechanism
of the ifamily can bring joy to many
a little , heart by repairing the day's
mishaps among the playthings, -and
setting things to rights for another
vigorous' campaign. The embryo
novelist of the family can gather a
a little group about her to listen to
some simple story. The musicians
_of the family will naturally cluster
about the piano, and take it out in
singing. And if father is excluded
from either group, bow can he be bet
ter employed than in adjusting child
ish grievances or removing childish,
difficulties, whether they spring up
within the home circle or line the
rough and, thorny road to school?
.Enongh to do, dear friends, if you
have only the mind and heart to do
it; and something that will richly pay
to do, as a month's experience will
demonstrate. Your -little ones will
grow up profoundly impressed with
the fact that "there is no place like
home;" and that- impression is the
surest safeguard against moral pollu
tion that can be found outside the
religion of Jesus-Christ. Indeed,we
should think the Children's Hour
practically a l failure if it did ,not
serve, at least indirectly, to interest
the little ones in Hun who dearly
loved them. The story of the Cross
is the most interesting of stories;and
'why might not the hour end iro
childish hymn and a childish prayer ?
We can conceive , of a Children's
Hour which should be as bright as
the 'sunshine, as cheery' as the breeze,
and yet seem to demand somb recog
nition of the Giver of all Good at its
close. At that juncture little Tom
my might be brought in (who—in
stead of being thrashed or shut up
in a dark closet, for being naughty—
had been simply debarred from all
part and lot in Children's Hour,) and
we warrant you, by that time Tom
my would be truly penitent and firm
ly. resolved not to do so any more.
Thus the Children's Hour might be
made a 'means of discipline in more
senses than -one:=Examiner and
' Chronicle.
_TIRE AND RAIN.
The atmosphere surrounding the
earth contains; as everybody knows,
a certain quantity of humidity or wa
tery vapor,supplied from evaporation
tram the ocean;,.which is either held
in invisible soltfiion in the upper air,
or collected visibly in cloud's when it
descends in cold weather in le shape
of hail or snow, or in warm weather
as rain. When a wide column of air
(such, for instance, as a column, of
air co-extensive with the circumfer
ence of a large city,) is from any
cause more greatly heated than the
circumambient atmosphere, it begins,
iu consequence of the diminution of
its specific gravity, to ascend into
space. The colder air immediately
rrisbei in from all points of the com
rise to fill up the vacuum, and com
ing in contact with the heat below,
precipitates the moisture which it
previously held in solution. Thus
the winds, that blew so furiously over
the unhappy city of Chicago, and the
rain that fell in such copious torrents
were alike produced by the immensi
ty of the conflagration. It has often
been remarked by historians and phi
losophers that great battles by sea
and land are invariably followed or
interrupted by heavy _rains. It was
not so in ancient times when men
fought hand to hand with Sword and
spear, and armies discharged their
arrows at each other; - but when vast
quantities of 'gunpowder are explod
ed, either at sea or on shore, and
great heat generated over a large
space occupied by the combatants,
the rain descends with the certainty
of ,cause add effect.
In like manner, and fdr a similar
reason, rain in such great and popu
lous cities as London, great_
and Glasgow, is always moreirequent
and more copions than in the rural
districts twenty or 'thirty' miles be
yond. The .thousands and - tens of
thousands of chimneys of dwelling
houses—and the taller chimneys of
factories—that pour not only smoke
but heat into the atmosphere, pro
duce the rain, 'from which the "more
sparsely peopled villages and town!,
beyond the reach of the too abund
ant caloric, are comparatilvely free.
The tall chimneys, of cotton-mills,
foundries, and other factories with
which most of our largest cities
abound, act' on a smaller scale the
part played by mountains in the ecou
-
'omy of nature. The 'mountain tops
receive and discharge electricity, and
the electricity • precipitates from the
cloud the moisture 'which they con
the Year Round.
• -41 -
JoanNes : every man
thniiis he eau keep a itoiet, ..0 can—which
accounts for ~t he great nuelber of "cussed mean
ones m the country.*
Turrn, theysay, lies in a welt; bat
we cannot see that truth lies at,sll.
WHY is a loaf of bread like a cater
pillar? Because tue grab thst mikes the
butter-By!
_ HOPE - is the heavenly
.angel who
light our pathway through the gloomy valo of
athersit4r.
I , k,
THE OONDITOTOWB THAIBIEGIVINA
STORY.
BY UEU:CC/k ILULDINOI DAV;&
,
Good arable ?- Yes, sir;- and if
yorilook at it in the way of scenery,it's
as pretty a' bit of land as you'll find
in - Kent County. That stretch 'now
ahead. By the way, there 'was a
queer thing happened on the track
there, three years ago come Thanks
giving—as queer asever came in my
way 'since I've been railroading. It
occurred in this way: 11l have time
to tell it, I . reckon.. We - have - .to
switch off for the express at the neat
station,' and lay by a while.
This tiranch road, you see, was
builtu for the local peaCh business. I
was-put on as conductor of the first
train that was rill. - By_,Gporge I tow
the • engine woke the country up ?
The DelaWareaus - are -genuine south
erners---lazy and 'hospitable.. They
were hospitable to the very train in a
way commercial people couldn'ttui
derstatid, It wasn't a. matter of busi
ness; it was a home Affair 'to them,
like. their church,
.or -their darkies;
something to chuckle and gossip
over and boast about. The stations
used to ho crowded with yoting fel
lows with flashy neckties, arid their
sweethearts, nice, modest little girls,
loaded with cheap finery, who had
made up parties and come down from
the interior to see the train go by.
Every old farmer on the route
thought he owned the engine (the
Getieral Jackson it was,) end knew
each seperate car as well as he did
his . own bulls and sheep. They'd
treat their wives to few miles ride, as
you town . ..people would run oVer to
Europe with yourn. - .s.
Of course. sir, I was at home here
on the road in two weeks. ?EVery
body ailed me Dick. Ther were
scores of places where I could drop
in for an odd' meal. I began to doubt
whether they • wore my uncles- and
cousins or not. Besides, a man here,
after fifty, has no other business than
loafing. All the old fellows got free
passes over the road, and forsook
' that. corners -by the tavern-fire for
the baggage car. There they smok
ed day after day, and told queer
stone. ear neighbor's families for
the nefit of anybody that chose to
b ,.l]
listen. knew all. the gossip by .
heart ' ectly. It was just when the
peaches were in bloom, too, when I
went on
. the road, and I goon was
punching open the buds with my
thumb-nail, and talking• learnedly of
Early Blush and Morris Whites with
the rest. Its a curious sight to . see
that pink.flnsh,above, the early spring
mud, from one en - of:the State to
the other, and to think that crop is
the one , matter of life and death to
the people. '
The peaches had come and gone.
though, when one day . , about a
month before Thanksgiving, an old
fellow came on board with his, family,
who had: a pass for two down to St.
George'e.
__l saw at a glance he was
none of my usual deadhead squad. A
thin, laity old man, white-headed,but
as active as a boy of sixteen,and with
the Delawaraen knack of finding
friends and showing himself friendly.
He was a reporter on some Philadel
phia penny-paper, and had his note
book out every minute, pumping me
about the Washington whipping
post, Sloan's fish-breeding experi
ment, and the condition of the free
negr, oes. . ' •
" Makes items,, makes item s!" he
said. "Pushes the paper.wonderfully
into local circulation. "
He had been a doctor or a lawyer,
I fctrg,et which, in - New York, and
was starved out, he told me, so,took
up j mrnalizing. He did not impress
me as a man of ability, and besides,
the poor old fellow was worn out. It
was high time for hlin to lie by
and loaf with others in the baggage
car. .
".Newspaper work," he said, "pays
handsomely, compared to my own
profession. We get on comfortably
on illy salary; quite comfortably."
I noticed, however, that both he
and his women folks Were thinly and
shabily dressed. I did not pay much
attention to the women, but there
was a boy, Dan, the old man's grand
son—a little chap of four that I took
an odd fancy to from the first. He
Mid an ugly face, but I think one of
the most honest and, loveable I ever
saw.
Tanner—that was the old` man's
name—told me-that he hag brought
his4ife and daughter down to keep
Thankigiving in this village, where
they had lived before. "We were all
younger and cheerfuller then- than
now," he said, " and I thought may
be, with the old place would come'
bad some - of the old feeling. There
are other ways of keeping the feasts.
than stuffing the stomach, you
know." =
I thought to myself it would be
as well if the stomach had its share
of the rejoicing. Tanner, cheerful
and chirupy as he was, looked meag
er and hunger-bitten. Four people
could not grow fat on .eight dollars a
week, which I found was his salary.
Ile hired a Vacant house foi a month.
There it is=that - one beyond the
hill. The family went to hOusekeep
ing in some sort of way in it, and he
used to run down Friday evenings to
stay with them over Srturdays,which
is the newspaper metes . Sunday, as
you know. We grew to be very
friendly. I fell into the habit of
watching with hiin for Dan, who 'al
ways came out on the porch to wait
for him, his mother lidding him by
the hand. I used to wonder the
poor little widow ever let go her hold
of the child day or night, and once .
I remember thinking what she would
do' if, the child should 'die. One has
those queer, idle fancies you knoW.
But Dan's mother was of th Ise wo
men who seem to have no life ant
side of the' one or .two perr.,4e they
love.
Well! Tb: :),,„Lving . eve came,and
Tanner bits. aboard going home, but
I had no time to talk to him, as the
train was crowded with people who
had been_up in Vilmiogton.laying iz.
snpplys for -the holiday. Even 'the
passenger-cars were heaped. with
baskets and` bundles. Tanner had
his little package, too—something
for Dan. I saw him peeping into it
with his eyes twinkling once or twice.
I I remember how pleased he was
when I brought him A monster tur-
$2 per A.13411111.131 - in AdArpzate.
NMI
keylor Mrs. Tanner. The old lady,
although she had: only seen me on
tke tram as it whisked by, bad taken
an anxious interest ins-ore throat
I had, and sent me a bottle of myrrh
tea by the old gentleman.
I don't know whether it was be
cause I bad corns from - a part of the
country where they don't keep
Thanksgiving, or because of the hor
ror that followed, but I remember
that afternoon as one ol the brightest
and chheerfulest -The air .
was cold and crisp. : There mum red
mist over the hills; the cars and
at the stations there was niithing but
good humor and friendly good wish
es. I don't think much of serious
things, yet it seemed to me that •day
that the people came with one accord
nearer to Clod because of Thanksgiv
ing.-, One old gentleman 04 board
bad ;the same Vet 1 suppose; for a,
I sat . down behuul him to count ray
change, I saw hiar watching the pas:
fingers and houses we passed with
an amused smile, and turning to his
'companion he said: '
"There's something . very whole
some in. the effeet-ortheSe holidays,
Colonel
•
sense of dependence and gratitude,as
a 'ear's sermon cannot do." •
The other was so long in replying
that I looked up
s at him. „
" When a man has, a ^ home or
home ties to give thanks fof,the boll
day is useful, no doubt.
It was. so queer and cold an answer
that I felt o cariosity about the man.,
He went back to his newspaper
(which was an English one, notic
ed,) and began to talk immediately
about the duties on silks and linens
I• soon found that he was largely in
terested ill both; had .traveled over a
good part of the world, traded in
'China and Japan, •and, as I guessed,
successfully. He had the air of a
man accustomed to commaid, and to
a life of ease. He was a middle-aged,
stoutly-built man,with a clean shaved,
powerful face, mid shrewd, plessar.t
eyes. I noticed that through all. his
conversation he tried to avoid seeing
the -happy groupes of people who
were incesantly getting on or off the
train; =and once, when a child in p . m:
sing pulled at hie cane, he.turned his
back roughly on it. Yet I fancy—,
I don't know why—that the people
and Thanksgiving mattered more to
him than any of us.
His friend said to _him presently,
" You're not well, Colonel ?" .
Never was better. But the truth
is, Venn, this country is all familiar
to me, and everything which recalls
old times makes me nervous and ir
ritable. It's , a weakness which I will
outgrow probably. If you'll"ezcuse
me I'll go forward." •
He saw mejust then, and,"tonch
ing his, hat,, asked leave to ride on
the engine,in ordtkr to see the scenery
Now the rules of the road were
slip-shod enough, but that was a
thing never had- allowed. How
ever, I had taken a curious interest
in the man, so I nodded and went
before him through the baggage car
and over the tender to see hitnisafely.
acrOss,. To my surprise Joe Fenton,
our engineer, met him as an aid ac
quaintance. Joe had been a private
in hisrement during the war. They
shook hands again and again; and
Fenton-was in "Mich a hurry to tell
him that .he was married and the
father of twins, that he stammered..
The Colofiel laughed and looked as
pleased as Joe. He was a different
man from the one I had seen in the
car. I waited a moment to point out
Brock's farm to him, when Joe said:;
" You used to come down to these'
parts for fishing often, I remember,
Colonel !" •
" Yes."
• ", Where is your good lady , now,
sir? And the 'child? He was as
pat a yoUngster as; ever knovied."
The gentleman replied but by a
creature with his hand. -
"What, both?" gasped Joe. "Both?'
The Colonel did not speak for a
minute, and then he said quietly: -
"Hy wife was-with me in China. She
sailed with the child for home .on the
Petrel. , I was to follow six months
later, The Petrel went down, There
was no one saved."
Joe said nothing; but presently he
put out his hand and smoothed the
other man's sleeve. It was just such
a thing as a woman would do.
The Colonel added hastily, as if
afraid he would betray any- emotion:
" on my way West now, in search
of my father, who has left New Eng
land.. People are easily lost sight of
.in America.'
" That's. a fact, sir," said Joe, and
then he and I began to talk about the
engine, glad to get back to' her. We
had no right to meddle with a grief
like that.
I went back on the cant again, _nil:
til we came to that hill, half mile
beyond Tanner's house, when I step
ped back to the engine. I had
_an
uneasy feeling Somehow about leav
ing the man there. We had lost
time, and were going at, full speed, .
- when Joe gave a horrible oath; and
at the same moment something flat
tered down on the track from the
bank, not twenty yardi ahead. The
next, I saw that it was - a child, that
it'was Dan,' laughing, and running,
with both hands out, to meet -us.
ou know, sir, - how long a minute
like that. lasts. I had_timo to hear
Joe's mad , wild., whistle fOr down
brakes shrieking out through the
hills, and to think it was like the Yell
of a devil, and to thank God that
Tanner - was in the back of the train
and could not see what •we would
have to see, and yet it was all but a
breath of time. -
It was too. late. The-engine did
hot slacken, and the child was hurry
ing toward it. Then I saw its moth
er above the bank, running down the
field. She, had missed Dan, '- and
would bein sight before--
I remember Joe's -lips were white.
Yet he said as cool as could be, "It
would be death, I reckon; but—if a
man could swing himself &t‘ n from
the cow-catcher-- • -
I cashed forward, but the . Colonel
lied me back. -
" I've nothing to lose," he said,and
as swift as a cat he passed round the
ledge, and threw' himself headlong
down on the track: in front.
shut my eyes. , The 'engkte and
the-whole train thhndered on, slack
ened at last, arid stopped. I remem-
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NUMBER 29,
They awaken men to a-
barium skarly. I climber down ' and
loolait'orer to - a field. - - I did not
know what I would tread into °lithe
track or Roe. . _
- The people poured out of the train.
in the clay lay - the Colonel like one
dead=-clear of the track, sir. He held
the child alivaand unhtutAill clutch
ed in both hands. life-wassnly stun
fled,* and. mune to in ~a minute, and
stood up; but he did not Seem to see
the train or the crowd of men about
him; nothing but theboy, over whose
face he was passing -his hand.
" God Almighty I' he cried, " It's
my Dan!" -
Then I saw the child's innther down ,
on the ground with both arias about -
her husband's knees, and poor. Tan
ner, pale as a ghost, pulling at his
sleeve, and crying, "Jack! Jack !"
I saw how it was in a flash; and
motioned to Joe to whistle warning,
and shouted, " All aboard, gentlemen.
Ten minutes late!" Though I'd have
given the world just to wring the old
man's hand. It was no rejoicing for
us to take part in.
Though I've got no better friends"
than the Colonel and his father, Joe
and I go there by invitationes often
as Thanksgiving comes. round. - No
one ever speaks of that day; butit is
never out of remembrance. Yonder
is the house—stone—beyond the
bridge. Want- to- see Joe, eh ? He's
on the engine, sir. Passengers not
allowed on the engine.
St,' George's! Tickets!
THE YOUNG IN GREAT 7EB
- world learns its lessons'slowly. LL .
Much of the world does-not learn its _
lessons at all. The young are every
where growing up amid the ruins of
otherlives, apparently without en
quiring or caring for the reasons , of
the disasters to life, fortune and rep
utation_ that are . happening, or have
happened, everywhere around them,
One man, with great trusts of money
in his hands, betrays the confidence- .
of the publicAecoruesa hopeless de- •
fanner, and blows his brains out.—
Another, led on by the love of power
and place, is degraded at last to a ..
poor demagogue, without character
or influence. &loth& throng,h --- a
surrender of himself to sensnality t,
becomes a disguiting beast, with
heart and _brain more foul than the
nests of unclean birds. Another, by
tasting, and tasting, and tasting of
the wine-cup, becomes a drunkard at
last, and dies in horrible delirium; or
' lives tobe- a curse to wife, children,
and friOnds., There is an 'army of ,
these poor wretches in every large -
city in the land dying daily, and '
ly re , enforced. A young gkrl, loving
" noewisely, but too well yields her
self to a Sedneer who ruins and then -
forsakes her to a life of shame and a 1,
death of despair. Not one girl, but '
thOusands of - girls . yearly, so that,
though a great company of those . ,
whose robes are soiled beyond cleans
ing hide themselves in the gram_e-ev
ery twelvemonth, another great com
pany of the pure drop to their places •
and keen filled to repletion -the ranks
of prostitution. Again and again,iu • '
instances beyond counting, are these
..tragedies repeated in' the fell pros- . -
ence of the rising generation, and
yet - it seems-to - grow no wiser. Noth
ing lias been more fully demonstrated
than that the first steps of folly and
sin are fraught with peril. Nothing •
-has been better proved than that -
temperate drinking is always'. danger-
ons, and that: excessiv_e drinking is '
always ruinous. Nothing is better
known-than that a man cannot con
sort with lewd- women for-an hour .
without receiving a taint that .a whole
life of repentance cannot wholly erad
icate. Since time began have; women
been led astray by the saMejpromises,
the same pledges, the same empty
rewards If young -men and young _
. •
women could, possibly learn wisdom, ,
it would seem - as if they might win
in a single day, by simply using their, .
eyes and thinking upon what they .
see. Yet in this great city of New
York, and. in all the _great cities of
the country, young men and
-young
women are all the time repeating.the .
mistakes of those around them who
are wrecked in character and fortune.
The young man keeps his wine bet- -
tle, and seeks resorts where deceived
and ruined women lie in wait for
prey, knowing perfectly well 'if he
knows anything, 'or has ever used .
fairly the reason with which Heaven
has endowed him, that he is in the
brow:timid to perditionthat there
is before him a life of disgust and a ,
death yf horror. , _ -
• When the resultsuf certain courses
of conduct, and certain indulgences -
are so well known as thOse to which
we allude, it seems strange than any
can enter upon them. Every , young;
man knows that if he never tastes a
glass of alcoholic drinks, he can nev
er become, or stand in - danger of be- -
coming, a drunkard. Every young
man knows that if he preserves a
chaste youth, and shuns the society -
of the lewd,lie can carry to the wo- --
man whom he loves a pelf-respect i c
- which is invaluable, - a past freely
opened to her questioning gaze, and
the pure physical vitality which shall
be the wealth of kinother generations-
He knows that this rewards of cheat-
ity are ten thousand ti'mes greater
than those of criminal indulgence.
He knows that nothing -is lost and ,
everything is gained by life of man
ly sobriety and selVdeniaL He ,
knows all•this, if he has had his eyes ,
open, and has exercised his reason
even a small degree; and yet he joins
the infatuated multitude and goes
straight to the deviL We blow that -
we do not exaggerate when we sav
that New. York has. thousands it.
young men, with good mothersand
pure sisters, who, if their lives should •
j be uncovered, could never look, those
mothers and sisters in the face again.
They are full of fears of exposure,
and conscious of irreparable lose.—
Their lives are masked in a thousand
ways. They.live - a daily lie. They
are the victims - and - slaves of vices
which are just as certain to cripple _
or kill them, unless once and for
ever forsaken, as they live. There
thousands of others .who, now pure
and good, will follow evil example un
warned by what they see, and within .
a year will be walking in the road
lhat leads evermore downward. •
One tires of talking to fools,.tuicl
falls back in sorrow that hell and des
traction are never full—in, sorrow
that men_ cannot or will not leant
that there is but one path to an hon
orable, peaceful, prosp_erous..and stic
eessful life, and that all others lea
more or less directly to ruin.—Scril,-
er for December. W
.
• linura hag an . orbit of its own; if
w
it moved 'rough the hit of common-place
livesit w ould not be genial, but common-place.
...., •
• ti , IIAT a record'of hnman folly, sit
peiatition, and ignorance a paper would be that
should contain all the contributions sent to the
editor.
Truepiety is not -a morose, but a
cheerful thing; whilst it makes me joyful it de
livers me from frivolity; yet it causes me to be
pleasant and glad. •
Mast persons think themselves per
fectiv virtuous because being . well-fed they
don't disthignisti betiven virtue =I Vietuall. ' .
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