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Arrow.= wit-LAw, TOWANDA, PA., °Mee In Montanyes B!oCk OVERTON & SANDERSON, A 'iiil.NzT•AT-LAW, • • TOWANDA, PA. JOHN F. fiANDEllsoxf E. OVRIITON, JR WH. JESSUP, • ! Af;OI7: I N.EY ANT COUNSILLLOTIL-AT-LAW, MONTEOSE. z.A Judge Jessup having resumed the practice of the law in Northern Pennsylvania, will attend to any legal badness intrusted to Mtn In Bradford county. Persons wishing to consult him, can call on H. Streeter. Esq., Towanda, Pa., when an appointment can be male. HENRY STREETER, ,P,TTOIINEY AND CORNSE:LLOII•AT•LAW, TOWANDA, PA. Feb 27, '741 JAMES WOOD, • TTO R RY-A TOWA.I4;DA, PA. mcb9-76 L: TOWN.I4I, M. D., 11031EOPATHIC PITYAICIkti AND SITRGEON Reqdenco and Orace Just North of Dr. Cor blu , s, on 113111 Street, Athens, Pa. Jun26-tim. MEMI ATTOIINET-AT-LAW, ;TOSVANI)A, PA.. AvH. THOMPSON, ATTORNEY g kT LAW, WYALUSI NG, PA. Will attend to all business entrusted to his care In Bradford, Sullivan and Wyoming Counties. Offico with Esq. Porter. rnoviB.74l. Ti'.,ll. ANGLE, D. D. S.. OPERATIVE AND MECHANICAL DENTIST 1 Olnce on State. Street; secouo floor of Dr. Pratt's pence. spr 3 Pa. LSBREE & SON, AriOIINEYS-AT-LAW, • TOWANDA, rA. C. Etsltime. D. KINNEY; - I • ATTOTt:FET-AT-LAMP. OMCc—nonms formerly occupied by Y. M. C. A,* lloom. fjan.3t7s. McPHERSON, LI ATTOUNET-AT-LAW, TOWANDA, PA. !Alt'y Brad. Co. OLIN W. MIX, •P ATTORNEY-AT-LAW AND U. B. COMMIRSIONXR, . TOWANDA, PA. Orioe—North Side Public Squire. Jan. 1, IRTS DAMES & CARNOCHAN, ATTORNXTS-AT-LAW. SOUTH' SIPE OF IVAED Dec 2345, ANDREW WILT, ty • ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. °Mee over Turner dr Gortlon'tv Drug Store, Towanda, Pa. May be consulted In German. • [April 12. 16.) • • . W S.• YOUNG, '.. .. . • , • AT76IINIE - Y-AT-LAW,- .... , TOWANDA, FA.. I • Oche—second door gonth or the First NA'Attal Banic,ldaln St., up stairs. WILLIAMS &ANGLE, AiTOUNEYS.AT-LAW oFFlCE.—Formerly oumpled by Wcp. Watkine, 71,1. It. WILLIAMS. .(0ct.17.77) E. J. ANGLE. Mi. MAXWELL, TY 1' ATTOWN TX-AT-LAW. I'DWANDA.. PA., Oltleo over Dayton's Store. A prlt 12, ISM • E. F. 90FF, A7TOII !: EY-A T A*, lin!,tar street, (one door,west of Davies &Tarim- Ci 1,111). Agener for the sale .and purchase of all kind:a of Sewarl t les and for making', loans on Real Estate. All business will receive eareNl and prompt att.ontlon. Glum, 1, 1879. yADILL & 'ATTORNEY q-AT-LAW, TOW A NDA, PA. Office In Wood's Block, Snit door south of the First ; National hank. up-stairs. U. J. 'MADILL: ryins-731y3 'J. N. CALIFF. _ RI: S. M. AS'sooDlttrltN,liiirsi clan and Surgeon.. Office over O. A. Black's ernekery stere-. Towanda, :Say 1. W3l. S. VINCENT, 'f GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT, July 21, 1579 WB. KELLY:, DENTIST.--01fice ..over M. E. Itosentleld's, Towanda, Pa. Teeth Inserted on Gold, Silver, Rubber, and .Al ninnium base. Teeth extracted without pain. Oct. 34-72. FD. PAYNE, M. D., .PIIVAICIAN AND SURGEON'. uiteo over Moiltanyes• Store. Office hones from 10 . ... co 72 A.m.-And Wu; 2 to 4 P. M. Sgeelal attention gtveu to DISEASES? ' S DISEASES ; orand . OP ',, Tin; EYE) ' _ . i THE EAR lIT. `R Y A N , Cti COUNTY SUCCILIN,TENDENT °Mee last Sat tire:Ay of ekt Month. over Turner a Gordon's Drug Store,"To!‘vandi, ra. Towanda, Juno 20. 1375. _ S. H. PEET, TEACHER OF PIANO Music, TER SIS.--110 perterrn. (Reside n co Third street, Ist ward.) Towanda, Jan. 13,19-13% C . S. RITSSELL'S GENET:AL INSURANCE AGENCY May2B.7otf. TOWANpA, PA. FIRST NATIONAL BANK, TOW A.'SDA . , PA ',CAPITAL PAID IN SITRPLCS This Bank offers ununuaf for the erine. setitha of a general banking business. - - N. N. BETTS, Cashier. JOB. POWELL, President. Aril 1. 110.9 QEELEY'S OYSTER BAY AND EUROPEAN► the Neans House. Board ,by_the day or week on reasonable terms. Warta meals served at all been Oysters at wbblessle and retail: febt.l7. EAGLE HOTEL, (80L - 111 SIDE rruLic sQtrsnn.l This welt-known hefuse has been tharoughly'ren novated and repaired throughout; and the proprie tor is new prepared to offer firsicelass accommoda tions to the pubile, on the most reasonable terms. - , r,„ A. JENNINGS. Towatida, Pa., May 2. 1878. . • THE CENTRAL HOTEL , JL ' ULSTER...Ird. - ' -; • • The undersigned hsiTing . taken : possession bf the abnye hotel, reSp(4l piny solicits the patron age or his old fliVids und.ika public generslly. ingl44f. A. FORREST. GOODRICH & HITCHCOCK. iubllshera'r VOLUME .:XL Oblhe ei)L!fs Away singing. Singing over the sea! Oh, he comes spill; bringing ,* Joy and himself to me! Down through the rosemary hollow , And up the wet beach I ran, My heart In a gutter to follow The flight of sailor-man. Fle on iihuslutnd sitting . Still in the tiouse at home I Give: we a mariner, flitting And dashing over the foam ! Give me a vOICe resounding . The songs clf the breezy main Give mets free heart bounding Evermore hither again. May 1, 79. Coming is better. an going; But never was queen so Grand As I, while I watch him blowing - • Away from the Lary land. I have wedded an ocean rover, And - with him I man the sea; Yet over the waves come over, • And - anchor, my lad, by me. Hark to his hillowT laughter. Blithe on the homeward tide ! Hark to It. heart! up'and after; Off to the harbor-Me; ' Down through the rosemary hollow :And over the m4.1'11114 fight' . Andswlll as a sea-bird, ltnd ho! fora Ball fa —ll , arper4 dfageistne for September =I HOLLOW-TREE GAP. Many years ago I resided in the town 01 F—, Tennessee, seventeen miles frond the v City of a charming country town, but which proved to be a place of too limited business to afford me employment. I had committed the great folly of leafing befote looking, and .had im patiently and recklessly left a place of fornier residence in the northwest, where I had friends, reputation and cnovll-75. influence, because the tide of my af fairs had flowed and ebbed, per - force of capriciousiircumstances that did not suit an ar ent and sahguine tem perament like mine, not yet cooled (lawn by a maturcr experience. and had sought, with delusive hope,. a - happier fortune under the mere con genial sky of my native south. I discovered, too late. that the _tide L. ELSEIRZX still flowed and ebbed, inexorably, and that in the exchange I had lost old-time friends, whom then, for' the first time, I felt and knew how to value, and that my dreary lot was that of "a stranger in a strange land." The necessities of my family com pelled me to diligence in the pursuit after business. It was evident that I was a supernumerary in and I was driven to seek occupation in ' N—. After repeated efforts I could only obtain writing in a clerk's office at a miserable stipend. Here I la bored with great, assiduity, leaving my family in F— for economy and visiting them on Saturday evenings, as opportunity offered. 'Op one oc ,casion, after a hard week's toil, I sat in the office, with thoughts sadly on the dear ones at home, who would be expecting me.and keenly participate in my disappoldtmbnt in not obtain ing means of bonveyance, when a pleasant acquaintance most unex pectedly drove up to the office door and tendered me a seat with him to F—. Joyously I arceptPd his kind offer, sprang tato the buggy, and away we dashed behind a splendid trotter. I alMost counted the steps that carried inenearer and nearer to the home of my heart. It was a. bracing December afternoon, and my' spirit, freed froai toil, fairly bounded with the exhiliration of the ride. We trotted on " righE merrilee " until it grew dusky, and we were about six wiles from town, when we arrived at a deep excavatinn, cut through a hill in grading thil road. Here, as ice glided betwben the high-sloping banks on either side, my companion drew his cloak close about him, and with a shudder remarked " This is tie 'Hollow-Tree gap.' I never pass through here without a feeling of superstitious dread from the associations of the place. It is strange how - the spectres of crime continue to haunt the spot of its per petration, , and how it seems ever afterward to be cursed with the cry ing blood of the 'murdered." "What !" said I, " was there ever a murder committed here ?" Efeb.l' 7 / 1 . TOWANDA, PA. TOWKNDA, PA " Yes" he replied, " and, if you would like it, I will- beguile our re maining hour's ride' by relating a strange story connected with it." " Indeed," I said, "I would be ex ceedingly glad to hear it. An cleft ing narrative will cause me to forget the cold." "Msny years ago," he commenced, "when N— was a small place, and could bOast of but few of . the con venient appurtenances Of a city, the town authorities fitted up a quaint old building in the suburbs for a lying-in hospital, where - indigent mothers might receive all due atten tion in their patriotic endeavors to populate the town and to give citi zens to the State. . ,On one occasion it so happen,ed that two young wo men were admitted to the benevolent offices, of this institution: One of these, Jessie Bloom, was an- interest- ing young female, with a sweet; pen sive face and a finely-developed head " . that indicated a high moral character. She bad been the wife of a young carpenter, who, a few months before, had lost hia. life in a fall from a house. 7hey had just commenced life to (realer, and as they were to each other pretty much all they possessed of eyalue, he hadlett. her at his unfor tunate death, naught Tut and name and memory of his love and virtues, which she cherished very dearly- in bee gentle heart. The other inmate, Sarah Preston, was 'a young woman of a different and rougher mold of character. She possessed few of the lovable attributes of her sea, and in her coarse, animal features could be easily diacerned the lineaments of • a turbulent, nature and traces of early bitsband had been a `man of similar inclinations and habits with berself,and their"married life, consequently, had been stormy 'and embittered by the maddening !halice of intemporance l • Finding •11125. ) 0011 66,60(1 liiiii Soehg. irf waluiss. ny z.vcv tAncox. lftled Eale,' :t BY HENItY FAUNTLEROY. . could ; not enjoy an equal privilege with his wife, to drink his cup In peace, in a fit of rage he aban . eneVhis home, and , left on' some river Craft to return no more. And now, as these two young woinen strangers to each other, brought to gether by the same wants of approach ing maternity, lay in that little hos pitable . room,—the one lace sweet' with the placidity of the skies, and the other face repulsive with the im press of vicious passions, -they might easily be taken for meat repreeenta tires on earth Of the spirits of good and evil. Many days elapsed ere the spirit of the pool, suffering Jessie seemed again to settle in its earthly home and she awoke to the instincts of the mother, while Sarah almost at once rose with hardy, disdain of her slight ordeal, and took up her little burden and walked. To make my story short I must skip over along space of time, pass: ing at once to more importnnt inci dents, and leaving the imagination to till the void with such a train_ of events as may be inferred from sub sequent revelations. Some twenty years after the hos pital scene I have briefly described, there stood a small log hut about a mile from where we now are, over to the right, on the. plantation of a Mr. S—. In . this hut dwelt a poor widow, the same Jessie Bloom whom I have already introduced td , you, whose, occupation Was making cloth ing for the hands upoh the place. By this means she maintained herself and her wayward boy, whom she had brought to the country away from t i e alluring 'vices of the city. He haiterinced a precocious aptitude in all the ways of sin !Ind licentiousness. Vainly had she combated his wicked propensities with all the force,of re ligious admonition. Vainly had she appealed in behalf of the memory of her deeply-loved husband. Vainly had she sought to bind his reckless spirit with the sweet chains of home, where assiduous care was given to his every comfort, and vainly had she `endeavored to inspire' pity for her own lonely and unprotected condi tion. was in vain. He broke over all the bounds of duty and obli- gation, and plunged into the wildest excesses. Well, as I before said, Jessie Bloom fled from the citywith this incorrigi ble young man, with the last remain ing hope, that alone with shim in the quiet solitude of the country, and the evil spell once broken , she might be able to snatch the ."..1;t and frdm the burning." One afternoon she sat at her lonely toil, revolving in her mind thoughts of ber-defeated hopes, 'and of the in evitable ruin of him to whom she *as devoting all the energies of her life. Ever and swill her deep sorrow would well up. to her eyes, and overflow in glistening tears, that tricklecl. , down her pale cheeks. There was the old grace in her beautiful+ head, as it bowed over her work, and there was much lingering beauty in the brow and cheek, though years of anguish had left indelible traces upon both. As thiii she sat, there was a tap at the door. She rose ,and . opened . it, and there stood her patron, Mr. S—. They exchanged respectful greetings, when Mr. S— said : " My business with you this lifter noon, Mrs. Bloom, is of a painful character." .` ' "What !"I ahe exclaimed, "has any thing befallen my .unhappy boy ?" "Nci," he answered,- " nothing nn usual ; but it.is of him I would speak His'eonduct has become really intol erable to the neighborhood ;- so much so that my friends all around me in sist:, foe the peace and quiet of our community-, that I shall no longer shelter him on my place. I am great ly embarrassed what to do. I. feel _respect and sympathy for you, and you are welcome to remain here as loig as you please, but, unless there bei an immediate alteration in the course of Your eon, my duty will compel me to refuse - to harbor longer a great annoyance to intneighbors. I think from the hardihood already evinced by him you can hardly hope for any improvement, and you • but make a sacrifice of yourself - to link your lot with his. Let him go, and you take care of yourself." " No ; oh,. no, she responded ; "I cannot do that. I can never abandon my only son to self-destruc tion. - While there is 'life there is hope. I shall cling to him, whatso ever betide him, and, though all the world desert him, he shall find a friend in his mother." " That is noble devotion," spoke Mr. 8--; " but it is a great pity that. it should be so misplaced. --If something cannot be done , to check pin. son's Mad career, you will have to follow him to the gallows or the penitentiary." t - _ _ "'Oh, sir," said she, in great dis tress, "judge bim not so harshly. With Gud's help, let me yet hope to effect a change. Give.me a few days more to make another trial, and should I fail, I promise not to impose longer on your = generosity, but to quit the neighborhciod." " Heaven help you," he said, as be mountedliti horse: "I would if I could. Take the time that you re quire, and . I wish again to "say that., should you be disappointed' in your efforts and conclude to separate from him,ihere is your home. Good after noon." " Good afternoon, sir," she replied. "I 'am grateful to you, but I can never comply 'with your condition." She ;closed "the little cabin door, and was again alone with the spectre of her sores disgrace and infamy. Alone with the most harrowing thought of the long-dreaded dis honor to the cherished memory of her husband. I She stood in the cen tre of the room, with her bead bent and her face buried- In het hands, while her forni writhed in the inten sity, of her anguish. Presently her bosom heaved with convulsive sobs, .and she bun3t forth in a paroxysm of despair. Anon, sbe paced rapidly "up and down the Boor, giving vent to her emotions in the incoherence of mingling prayer, apostrophe and so liloquy. " 0 God," she exclaimed, "It not _~Y~...... ~. :._,:~i:~:...., ..~, , . , I , TIMANDA,.I3RIMOPII. 1300.17,','14,::,PWWWLIMOPIN.C4. Mr4131:1( :14 I)" this ,burden. too .great for- Th seer ' ant? Is it too much to ask for death" for us both rather thap livei of ig nominy, and Shame ? In mercy, yet save this wretched, boy trqm the taint of mime, and 'let me not know the degradation of being the mother of a child who could bring reproach on the name of my beloved husband. 0 Edward; my husband, how eau. I longer shield thy_memory from dis honor ? How could it be? How was it possible that we gave life to such an ingrate, to such a wretch t Never did I feel a mother's yearning tenderness for this boy. In mr first consciousness, after 'his birth, when I looked, expecting to behold my husband's image in the' child, I re coiled with loathing from his hideous features, and my breast almost re fused - to give him nourishment. Was this my crime ? Was it for this that lam so cursed : and degraded ? Oh, have I not fulfilled every duty to him Has not love for my - husband supplied as strong a motive as love for the child ? And when have I ever failed in care and provision forhim ? What mother ever did more or sacrificed more lot. her offspring ? Father in heaven, whatever my sin was, pardon Thy wretched servant, and help me from the burden of my crushing woe." The evening was far advanced as thus she paced in heedless tramp and poured forth her sorrow. That sup plication so full of despair of earth and trus ti in heaven, ascended like incense before the omnipotent' throne, most grateful to th 0., ,, divine sense. We shall see how subiequent events were molded in the moat unexpected manner to answer the accepted peti tion. As I said, it was a lite hour of the night when her quiek ear caught the sound of approaching footsteps. Well she knew whose they were. t With a fierce imprecation, as he stumbled up the - step, the obje ct of her wretched solicitude' burst open the door and reeled into the room. Without other greeting, he rudely demanded food. " Your supper has been waiting for you a long time by the fire. Here it is," she said, and lifted up the simple but abundant repast and set it before him. He devoured it voraciously, like s hungry beast. With a firmness and decision that she had never employed toward hini before she now addressed him: " William, Mr. S.— was here this afternoon i bringing me still worse re ports of your disgraceful conduct. He 'says you have become the scourge of the neighborhood, and that be is greatly complained of for harboring you on his place. Listen to me. I have been a true and faithful mother to you. I have never reproached you for the sorrow that you have brought upon me ; but now it is my duty to say that if there yet lingers one gen erous feeling in your heart to rise up in acknowledgment of a parent's au thority,—if every sense.of accounta bility to high 'heaven has not , been smothered in your bosom,—l Com mand you' to stop in yoUr 'reckless course, that must lead to pur being driven forth upon the•world, house less outcasts; I command you, on peril of your soul, to bringlnci further disgrace upon the name 'you bear; and, if there is any source of terror to your mind, I command you to stop ere you bring down upon yodr head the curse of God and your • mother's hate." "Ha 1 say yon .so ?" he replied. "Now listen to me. Neither you nor Mr.' need trouble yourselves about me. I am tired of petticoat control, and I mean to be off. In two days. I shalt; leave this neighbor hood. You can Ulm care of yourself. And I tell you, when I go, I shall do so full handed. Do you understand ? I guess yoii will hardly beteay me?" Yes, she understood , him. His meaning was, but too truly the rea lization of an abiorbiog apprObension of her how. She cowed 'before the terrible thought Of crime. Long and bravely did that true heart wrestle with the fate of that erring boy. At length he , unclasped her ATM and sa=d : "Let me go; must be off to bed. What is the use.of our living togeth er any longer? You will -be better off without me. I am buts drawback to you.=l am tired of,' this place. My mind is made np, and leave this place I. will, before two days," With this he ascended to the loft, and threw himself, upon his. couch; while the despairing mother lay up on the floor, - sleepless in her dread apprehension. We will now visit a small dwelling In the outskirts of the city of N—, where Sarah Preston lived---the same person I presented to- you at the opening of my story as one of the inmates of the little hospital. About this dwelling there was an air of neg- lect and destitution that would , im press the beholder with wonder that humanity could at all accept such terms of existence. The potent caqse of, all this -_ostensible abjectness is manifest, if we take a peep - inside the front apartment,where Sarah Preston held her solitary orgies. There she sat in an old arm -chair, in a dirty gown, with disheveled .hair, and her head resting cin her bosom,;losA in the Soporitici*Os of her faivrite beverage. On a siekety table beside hei . stood the devil's own symbolized presence, 'a bottle, from which she had evidently been thinking in the spell that numbs the high faculties of the mind, and binds the divine soul in imbecility and brutality._ She sat there, a model picture of the •selfish votary, forgetful alike of . God, the world, and her own degradation, while the aspect around her of aban don' and squalidity filled up the pic ture of the attendant circumsUinceS, of vile indulgence in strong drink. She was 'roused from her stupefac tion by some one raising the latch, and a young man entered the4qclin and stood before her._ As your eye turned away from the sight of that woman's bloated and repulsive fea tures, and rested on the face 'of that young man, it seemed almost radiant with mor al light, and one could ex per„!ence a resistless emotion of reas surance and hope.- Lofty character and noble,purpose were written upon his manly, brow, while the steady gaze of the eye and the firm set of 1011 . <l . •• 4 1 c•••••• • Plb:Tht 4TVASTER. the month betobened the indomitable °lir& Of Ida mind. Yet nothing 'was Imre beautiful in that hot than tire shade of pensive thought and repress ed sorrow ,that seen in the coun tenances._ of brave_ men who, have tassed through some. welst trial., A feW MOOmuta before'that young man's facermight , hirre been' seen to betray gle deep sensibility of his nature. He luul called at the office of em ployer,, who, was a. carpenter . and a man much esteemed.. to straw the lit tle remainder of his last week's 'Wag es, when the good man. struck with his manly-face and deportment t , said to him: • _ " . _ " 0 eorgeyreston, yon have worked very hard since you came to me, - and you are a faithfuliindintiions fellow. You deserve well; take my word for it, you will do well in the world." "I am much obliged to lon, sir," said George', as he turned quickly away to hide the tears that had start. ed at this gniteful praise. -It was the first that he bad ever received in his life. He felt rewarded for much of his suffering, and, is lie sped home. ward, took new courage to endure on totbe end. When he arrived at home and entered, as I have before men tioned, though the sight that met his eye las the old familiar one, yet now a desperate spirit burned within him. The praise of his employer, bad kin dled the latent spark of ambition and inspired him with a new.boni ion& dence.' His 'energy bad heretofore been displayed in laboring under'ev , erg discouragement and faithfaßy performing every duty, notwithstand nig the wages of his toil were spent in purchasing the degradation of, hip home. But now the indignation that bad lain dormant for , years in hip . breast could no longer be repressed. He strode to the table, seized the hateful bottle by the neck, and dashed it and its vile contents into the street. "_Mother," be exclaimed, " , 1 can endure this no longer. You are wel come to all my wages, to make our home decent and comfortable, but no longer will I suffer myself to be used as the miserable instrument of _your debasement and my own shame." " You wretch!" she burst forth in fury; -"do you think yourself large enough to brave 'me now ? I will teach you better;" and she would have inflicted upon: him one of those cruel beatings that had been the ter ror of his boyhood, but be restrained her uplifted arm, pushed hei back into her seat, and convinced her that the whilom submissive boy had now become the resolute man. "Mother," he said, "be quiet and hear me.. I will dd all for you that my conscience tells me is right. I will labor for you to the ut most of my. power; but I am determined to break any bottle that is brought into this house. If I cannot prevent your drinking any other way, I shall not give my earnings to you, but make all of our purchases myself. "then I have no more business here:' she respOnded. "Do yeu think Twill stay here to be brow. beaten and dictated to by a boy like you? I can live without your help. I know bow to get a home, drink_as much as I. want, and have my ° own way, too. I' have told you how be fore, when you attempted to crow': me. You understand my meaning, boy, so I am off, and you can be was ter of your own house." As she would have passed oat, George intercepted her, and threw himself against the door, as he cried: - ".Mother, mother, you cannot se riously mean to do such. wickedness. Slay me if you will, but do. not give yourself to shame and pollution. stay, mother, stay." Overcome with the horrible thought, ke fell at her feet, saying, " Forgive me, I meant only for the best. Here are my wages ; I will work for you, die for yob, will never cross you again, if you will only stay here as you are." • " Well, boy," she said, having car ried her point, "don't expect to rule me, that's all. Take up your supper there, eat it, and get off to bed." "I want nothing to eat." George answered, and immediately withdrew to the back room, where his couch was, that be might be alone. Alonal with what! Ah ! with a memory ,that knew no sunny hours of childhood—alone with thoughts that - rolled back over the dreary waste of his existence, undecked with a single Bower, and dotted with not one green spot, where his sorrow ing spirit could go back• and rest in the • joys of the past.-4lone with thoughts that turned to. the future to survey but a continuous waste, with not even a shadowy rock where to rest his weary head. George fell on his knees' by the side of his douch, and pressed: his burning head deep into the pillow. He poured out his sorrows to Him who alone - could mitigate his grief. Long he wrestled with God,' into the late' watches of the night, and it was not until admonished by the growing dawn that he threw 'himself on the couch for a few hours' sleep, to pre pare him for the labors of the day. We will see how that long and earnest player was wonderfully an swered by Hith, who knows bow to "give good things to them that ask Him." • ' IR! ~'i ~: ~,: riOil ,- In , the dark of the next eveningd after 'the dark that poor Jessie Bloom' sent up her wail of woe, and the same night that George Preston cried to heaven in the agony of his soul, a figure might have •been- seen skulking near the Hollow-Tree gap. It was , evident that be, bad some Ws- - chievons purpose, and was . lying in wait for a particular person, from his dodging about to avoid the eye of the occasional , passer-by. As the :shadea of heaven deepened, and oh. jecia close by became . obscure, he stepped into the road and cautiously entered_ the. gap.," About midway, where the high banks . intensified the gloom into darkness, be took his po sition, a little up one , of the Odes, end crouched- to the ground. — Not very long after a small vehicle was beard slowly, ascending the hill, go ii3g.in the direction of N This I was , the object of the crouching fig ure's expectation, for be now looked keenly up and down - -the rcxud to lee that all was clear. It was a little MUNI BM =BEE ; ,i4 ~~.i~ • ~if j(t+i, :fr+; : T J , peddlar-wagon, by an, old man, welt known through all this glop, Where he had peddled 'litany years. ,Be had been in the, neigh borbook all Alay collecting wax, feathers. , etc.„ . . for bartering .in the city, and expected` to' reach N— that night: - His nioirenier:ta had been closely watched dating' the 'day, that figure lying in wait .for him, a n d d it was known that he usually carried a ceneiderable sum of money. to - the city for dePasit; and Air, the purchase suPplies. The old man droie on slowly, never dreaming of danger, his mind probablyticeppled in the cal culatioro of hia.trade. Re and his little 'wagon - were ' now no almost t lost in the mid-darknesi of - the 'gait. - when i the hiding fprm, with the bound of a panther ' sprang.upon'the old man, seized him by the throat, and before .he could make a cry help beried a slung-Shot deep into hisaged,tead. Then, seizing the reins,' he drove through • the gap, when, turning off the wad to the right, he continued ori some distance into the wood, until he came to a large holloir tree. Here he stopped, lifted thehody from the wagon, rifltd it of all the money and other valuables found upon it, and stuffed it down into the hollow of the tree. This done, he got into the wagon and drove back to the• road, which he kept for' perhaps a mile, when, again turning off, he proceeded to a sequestered spot, where he_ unhitch ed the horse, slipped off the harness, mounted him and rode off across the! .country. Coming to a_ stable in his flight. he dismounted, went in and brought a saddle, which throwing_ upon the back of the . animal, he , again mounted, and William Bloom, I agreeably to his word, left the neigh borhood, and left, too, fall-handed. Two or three days after this 'mur der was committed the peddler wa gon was discovered by a -couple of woodmen and suspicion immediate ly arouse d that foul work had been done. The keen scent that men pos sess. in the pursuit after crime . ena bled these men easily to 'trace up the order'of events on that bloody night.' The body was found in the hollow tree, and the neighbors assembled around to hold inquest and to coun sel together for the detection of the ' .criminal.. It is wonderful. how the ingenuity of man will ferret out the motive, and unerringly, follow through all the strategy of crime, so that he is almost invariably able , to ;calk right up to the perpetrator and say," Thou art the man." Doubtless, the bend of God is in if. It is He who points the way and directs the thought, for the most subtle cunning is converted into bungling betrayal, and the mold, ingenious devices lead but to' exposure of what they were designed to conceal, until-'it has be come a faithful aphorism that "Min.- der wilt out." In the. present case it inimediiitely occurred to the crowd that William Bloom was• missing. about the time the murder must hive been committed. Then the stolen saddle afforded the direction of the the flight, and four or five' resolute fellows, promptly volunteering, dash ed off in pursuit. ' They followed' the flying wretch in all his devious wan derings with the _intuitive scent, of the hound on -a fresh trait, and ere a fornight passed returned to the county seat with Wil liam Bloom in their custody. The evidence of his guilt was overwhelm ing and he was committed to, jail to await his trial at the circuit court. On, the day of the next session,l very soon afterward, a large con course of people was attracted to the county seat by the enormity of the ()dense to be adjudged and by the in- terest usually felt in the trials of life and death. The 'general character of the prisoner in the county was so in famous, the nature of the proof against him so demonstrative, and public prejudice against him so high that it was apprehended by, the court that an impartial jury could not be, empaneled, and there being some fear of a tumult and an attempt to lynch the accused, it was deemed adt• visable to grant a change of venue to the county seat of the adjoining county of D—. Now, indeed, was that miserable being-deserted by all of his fellow'. men. Not one remained to be called Mend. And rightly so. His hands were imbrued in a brother's bleed, and thus bad he constituted his fel low-men instruments of justice against.himself, to carry out the di vine injunction that "-Whosoever sheddeth man's blood by , man _shall his blood be shed." But there was one who joined not the throng of his persecutors, but ministered unto him with continuing devotion—one who followed him round, faithful as his shadow, and braved the crowd's scorn for being a murderer's mother, pressing courageously on to the ful fillment of her duty unto the bitter end. Jessie,. Bloom had said ? ' "Al though all the world desert him, yet shall he find a friend in his , mother." And now, when the escort moved off, with the prisoner, she, too, -started an foot to make e journey .ot sev enteen miles -to the other county seat. When they bad gone a , couple of miles on their way -looking back ' they saw. the,poor :mother still lowing. One of the men, struck with .pity and admiration tor he , devotion,. called a halt until she mune up and kindly gave' befit seat behind him. I hive neither time'nor inclination to describes court seerie -to you. - In deed, all the paraphernalia of meek justice, nowadays is - sickening tome. Of the institutions to meet , the wants of what we complacently 'term a re -lined age, the modern 'mut-house is the great monumental lie; to delude those who 'credulously read their'. scription,, "Justice." There is the grave of many a reputation, sold for thirty pieces of silver" by 'the gamesters of the law, who played -for the stake and shuffled ,human pas likll3 us they would a pack of cards. There, buried the hopes of many an honest man, 'vino went squarely up with his case and lost, while - the knave trotted to subsidizing wit nesses, 'judges , and. lawyers,. and won. I am glad ,(said , my companion) that you have abandoned the pro fessiorkor, I fear, I might Offend you. But to:, my story. Wrll, there sat William Bloom, =I BM stupefied with terror, won tidal for life, and there 'by, his side' sat. his - only 'eart.bly friend, with 'e'en:iris. veil over her face, endeavoring to impart by her presence soma courage to, her boy in his fearful ordeal. Even . that " watch, ,with the evidence against him as clear as the meridian sun, might have escaped• thu penalty of his crime' if he bad had the money to pay for- the:• legal trick ; but hav ing no money, wel' might be trem ble, for be was certain: to get justice. Therowas nomoney to jingle in the lawyers' ears, to quicken their Inge unity ; therefore, the trial proceeded in • a very natural . -way. The wit nesses gave in their .evidence in , a straightforward way, 'Without inter ruption,`and the truth came out, be- . cause there was no money to make any, one interested to suppress it. The evidence brought to a close, the consul on both &ides Made very iiret ty speeches, admonishing the jury to do their duty, and the jury, being ad monished of their duty by both law yers„did it, and iendered a verdict of guilty without leaving , -the box. "Take the prisoner to jail,' Mr. Sheriff," said the judge. There was 'a stir among the niem hers of the bar, and pleasantly they smiled, as. they turned down the counters and prepared for another game. Again they stuffed the - pack, and all that some other - luckless weight was worth, was on the stake ere the prisoner reached the door. -i`V!'' t ".. , s 4 ^ k: , . :ti- ~ s;,. i _ ;• ..:, , / i. r ' 3;•• ,f .1 41 :' . "'' ' '' - It was known that the next day, at 11 o'clock, sentence of death would be pronounced on the convicted man, and a large number of people assem bled to witness the solemn scene and to hear the - impressive eloquence of the judge. In the crowd might have been seen George Preston who hap pened to be passing on business, was curious to look in fora m oment. Pressing through the throng , his eye fell upon that delicate, veiled figure seated beside the culprit. His sight was fixed instantly—he gazed long and earnestly. The judge proceeded, with his admonitory charge, but George heeded not what he said. What was the strange spell that bound his sense ? What was the secret of that tender sympathy that thrilled his heart? 'Was it because, when he saw her form writhe in her agony, he thought how that agony was, like his own, inflicted by the misconduct of another? Was it be- cause he though that - bosom, having_ with silent woe, might, like his, be full of noble emotions and capabili, ties, though she was, like him, an object of scorn' because of another' shame ? He pressed nearer and nearer' to her. What an irresistible tender ness he felt for her, and how much he wished to; help her. Just then, the judge pronounced those fearful words of doom, " When you shall be hanged by the neck until you are dead, and God Almighty have mercy on your soul." The frail figure shudderect—there was a - suppressed cry, and George saw the object of his sympathy' fall neon the floor. He forgot all but the ,wish to help her. He sprang into the hos, lifted the lifeless form in his arms, and bore her through the crowd to the open air. He tote away the veil, that water might be sprinkled on her temples, and for the .4rst time -beheld her sweet face. yt was al most a mirror of his own. Kneeling over her, he gazed upon those fea tures in bewilderment and wonder. A voice behind him said: "Some One 'call a physician. That spasm lasts too long. Young . man, I will assist you, and let ns carry her into that office,. Where I see a touch." George obeyed with alacrity, and she was accordingly borne into a side office and gently laid upon the couch. • A middle-aged physician al most instantly stepped in from the street - and closed the - door, to keep out the few who manifested any care or curiosity Be approached the couch and applied some restoptive, saying as he did so : " Why, this is Jessie Bloom ! Well I remember that. sweet face. , She was among my first "patiepts, and I distinctly recollect the.strUnge scene at the lying-in hospital, years ago, when she beeaufe a mothe'r. ' The sufferer' heaved a deep sigh and opened her eyes. They fell upon the -eager face'', of .61eorge Preston{ Her thoughtii were yet beWilderedi and she at first believed she had awakened beyond the shores of mor tality.and beheld her husband's face, as in youth and beauty, welcoming, her. "Edward, Edward," she said, " is it you?" Then, returning fully to conscious , ness, and understanding the reality of a ll around her, she started up, and catching hold of George, cried out: " Who are you? In Sod's name tell me who you are." "I am George Preston," he an. swered. "George Preston I" she exclaimed with incensing excitement, " are you the son of -a woman named Sarah Preston "I am," he responded. " Were you born at the lying-in hospital?' . she continued. "I was," he answered, wondering surd astonished. • .., , • • "My God!" said she wildly, "the thought that has risen vaguely upon my imagination assumes 'certainty. Oh, would I could st.iijjtrown:" "I happen to be: here," spoke the attending physician. - "Dr. Brown," she said, " you at tended me in the , hospital, :when I 'was confined ?" •• "Yes, ". assented the - doctor, "and 'assiste at the birth of as handsome a boy as my eyes ever beheld:l'. "Great heaven," cried Jessie Bloom, "the child they brought me was hideous. It was he who was just no* sentenced to death." 1 4 The face-of your,child," rejoined the doctor, "could never have grown into such a likeness of villany asthe criminal's at the bar. I heard . the conversation just noir between you and that young man e who says his name is' George Preston. I 'can see in:, him much of the matured Image as I remember it of your child, and could almost be sworn,from the lik& ness to you and the coineidence of his birth; hat he - is your true son 3 t. =1 WM 81.00 per Anollitr'ln,Adyttpcse; and Mit mistake was made: 'Wait a moment; I saw Dr. Hall enter the court•bouse Immo up; I will :6'511 him in." - He left the room for: a moment and returned accompanied by- Dr. Hall, whom be' thus addressed: "Dr., Hall,. you remember f tlie events of the little hospital, th4we have so often since spoken abeiut.' You attended Sarah Preston. ';Do you believe that to be her son, stand ing there'?" pointing to George. ""No," answered Dr. Hall, "I should think it hardly pcissible. Her child was so repulsive to me that I never took the second look, and such fea tures could never have developed into the beauty of that face," referring to George. • "Whit do yon thinlinf the face of the prisoner in the box V.' asked Dr. Brown., - • "Well," -Dr Hall replied, "since you have suggested the connection, that is much the same- face, and it just strikes me how strong the-.re semblancc is to Sarah Preston." . . "Come with Me,.all of yon," said Jessie, Bloom, pearly, frantic with emotions. "Take meat °nee to Sarah Preston." "I will take you to - her house," said George. I must leave you to imagine the feelings of ttle two chief actors in these exciting scenes, as they sped swiftly away under the impulse of the' wildest heroes.' They were at tractedlo each•other by a mysterious affinity of their souls, yet dared not give way to the full force of certain ty. 'Arriving at the dwelling designated by George, Jessie Bloom burst . fran tically into the'room, crying out : • "Sarah Preston, in the name, of God, and your hoped for mercy, tell me,' is this my son?" "I will not lie to you. - He is your son. But-I did not make the ex change; The 'nurses made the mis take. When you fainted,. Dr. Brown 'called Dr. Hall, to help him. The babies were hastily put in a blanket on the, Sable. The nurses picked them up, without knowing which was which, carelessly thinking: the baby next me was my:child, and took them into the next room to wash and dress them. You were most dying, and did not see your baby, but I saw mine. When I asked for my-child one of the silly nurses brought me yours. I did not want 'any baby, but I preferred yours to mine. I took +yours, as if it was mine, and kept itgliid until the next afternoon, when I got up and went away, leav ing you dyin, as I supposed. , That's the trtith." "And, oh! my son," cried -Jessie Bloom, as she threw herself into the outstretched arms of her' noble boy, "what an .ocean of sorrow we have crossed to meet each other." ' "And what a sky full of joy we have been cheated -out of, my pOor, poor mother!" responded - George, as he wept aloud. "I will not curse you," he continued, turningto Sarah Preston, "for your ,own wicked heait is curse enough; but I must never see you again. Come, mother, come." That same day Jessie Bloom had her eon christened ' Edward Bloom,. the name •of her husband. They were very'soon in a neat little home of their own, furnished and presented to them by Drs. Brown and Hall. Edward's employer, not, to -be out,- done in generosity, gave his faithful apprentice a, fall partnership in his profitable business. And-in that happy home they de voted a week to a relation of their past trying histories, to s communion of joy too sacred for tongued to tell, and to a new consecration of them selves to the service of; a merciful God, who 'had so signally answered their prayers; • which, unknown to each other, had, - nt ithe same moment, mingled in sweet music . to the divine ear. ' • Two weeks elapsed f and a heartless and insensible crowd gathered around a gallows, a mile from the city to in dulge a perverted appetite, in wit nessing the infliction of the -awful penalty of death upon a fellow-being. - The doomed wretch stood upon the fatal traps It was William Preston— ] o longer Bloom. That name . was tot-his to stain with ignominy. He had been made , acquainted with his -true parentage, and :Jessie - Bloom had' isited' him, and given him her forgiveness for all the sorrow he had occasioned her; but little did he heed it all. It did not change his lot, and what did hi care? Relentlessly the hand of fate ap proaChed the hour when that immo • tal soul, burdened_ with its. sin, as to be launched into eternity.; T ere was a stir in the outer crow nd a woman *th blood-shot eyed and bloated face, where reveled all the fires of sensuality, pressed through the throng, crying to the crowd to give way. It was Sarah Preston ° , at tracted to the-awful-scene by some strange spell of fatality. "Let me'-see his face," she cried, forcing her.way to the front. Roping something from the disturbance the criminal cast his eyes-in that direc tion: and caught sight of her brand ishing arms. Mother and son stood face to face. "Yes," she screamed, that is he. "William Preston, I ani your mother."- The wretch -looked with a stupid stare; the hangman paused - a mo ment—the hatid passed the hour point—the axe fell upon 'the cord that held <the drop and the suspended body writhed in ,the agonies of death. i The mother uttered a wild yell and fell to the earth.. , When she -was picked up she too was dead. Mania a petit had cat the cord of ,her miser able life. ; 1 Where did `, those two wretched beings, hold their reunion of dark despair? "! - "But here we 'are- at your door," said my Companion, "go. in and kiss -your wife and little -ones. and, think of Edward Bloom, who,- too: has a sweet wife and three lovely children. tiood'night." - Tsrausii-alxrut paying the -interest on the public debt, why shouldn't the goi eniment tax walking-matches at so much is lap? If the scorers were , compelled to cancel a two-cent stamp at the end 'of ev ery *miter-mire, we .could call in the four percents. before - halt the fools io the country qratlt Francisco Post. "Anil dial the 1117 of the _ ' Dledein the zatmed Otluvbe pros& that abets pale, . 1 . —lnd. he la purple ewe? - r ._. r itoth 14 lb" Comet Web bitth ° fixing flea the bitty getinnd - -4 little irllle they Moe ee wets:, r - And thee no mote ere toned i• 1 ,...._.,_ NIMBER 115 raw, nor AND FAIMIE. - WOMAN'S sphere—That she -will :'never liturrir per cent. of the pulp of an or ange is water. • Tbis explains why , step. ping on the skin brings to mind a dab— . Detroit Free Press. las' lapsus lingum—Embarrassed young gentleman (to wife of Cabinet-Min ister): "I—l—l think yon' ea had the. pleasure of meeting me,before." "_ THE worst feature of this lapse into wintry weather ist that the resuscitation of the seacune will give.occasion fort= es. • tra edition of spring poetry.—Puck. • ONE good turn deserves .I.nother. Wag ner twelve piers ago eloped with Yon-Bu low's wife. Vou Bulciw recently played for the benefit of a Beyienth fund for propagating the music - of ;Wagner. . Bunrrioni Old Gent (in a- dictatorial tone): "Ah ! conductor, - what 'are we— ah !—waiting for?" Conductor - (iak un connern)—• Waiting fOr the -train to go on, sir." Old gent retires.--Punch. A CHOICE of Evils—Mamma—"Now, Artbut, be a good boy and take your medicine, or:mamma will be very angry." Angry (after mature dliberation)— 'I would rather.mother was very angry."— Puileh. . 1118 LILT. " A handful of brief. gusty wind . Can, unateh away their breath ; Stator 4061011 with cruel isitfbelded. And they de crushed to death ;- Or It the worm about the root Be hungry tat his PF 4 I. - The teonitaWof the Mildly fruit - Dp:ipe Man the ;dem sway.. • ';soieban thno alai drop, O. matt t 4. Be-think thee, !what art thou Naught, though th; littbe mortal span Be clad in purPle ego. T 0 .120.611! newer thegaideeer'salth— - Short beauty shalt thou have; Thy golden glory vanlsheth, When thou:art In the grave:" --Front the Danish of - Ambrosias dish TUE Sweetsler the Morning—She (sem ! tiinental): "Oh, I call this quite 'too ex quisitely lovely ! So delightful to see the little early birds.! They seem so happy I" He (Hard-up): "Yes, with their bills all over dew, 'too :"--Punch's Almanac. • • AN Arkansas woman; named toeder, has brought an actiom against' her faith- , less lover for breach of promiise. Para graphers will not lose Alm opportunity to suggest. that she has converted. herself into a breach-Loeder.—Chicogo Tribune. the middle of fly time, when , both bands Were engaged, we have t ometimes• thought, AS a persistent fly playfully fondled our nose, that it was a great mis take when our primeval ancestor discard ed his caudal appeudage./3"oston Trans cript. • • ; "I BEFPOSE the bells are sounding an alarm 6f tire," sneeringly said a man as, the church bells were calling the worship- • pers one Sunday morning; to which a' clergyman who was l using replied : "Yes, my friend ; but the fire' is not in this woHd." THE comedy of " Our Boys" has been played 1,350 times consecutively at a Lon don theatre, and will soon be followed by "Oar Girls.'.' is different in this coun try. • Here our girls are followed by our boys. But perhaps it is leap year in Eng land. • • SELF-possessed trainp4" Will any gen tleman—" = Brown .(to intending alms- giver)—PDOn't you give him. anything— • he's been here. before to-day." S. P,4 (loftily)—" Will you .haVe the kindness not to meddle with my business affairs?" • —Puck. - , 311srLscEn Charity—On coming oat of ~ _ church, General Sir Talbot de:, la - (Poer Sangra zal is sa.struck with the beauty of the afternoon that he forgets to put on his bat, and Lady Jones ,(who is rather j rtear.sighted) drops a penny into it • London Punch. - ; THEY were walking home from ,a re- , hitarsal. Said - he : " Loiest thou 'me ?" Said she : "Thou knowest• I love thee !" Then they measured noses, while • the • trees sighed,- the lake murmured upon the pebbled beach, and the - mood shone in soft splendor.— Vidette. • BOAT-race morning - . (Little Funks un derstood that the boatman 'ad saved a nice little boat for 'im.` an' the lady). Boatman.: "What—ain't safe? Why, lor' bless yet.. it yet. only sets perfectly still and bails 'er out every two minutes, she'll go along.boOtifur.":—Jud r y. • SMITH, who had always been a "tough • . one," has just died. The physician is . met coming from the house by. Brown, who asks : "Doctor, how is Smith? Is • lde out of danger?" Physician—No ; is dead, poor fellow, but he is far from being out of danger, I fear."—Boston Traretler. AN elderly g e n tleman et seen kissing a - lady in aWest-side neighborhood, caused the tongue of scandal to move xecently, - says the Norwich Buitetin,. - but when they .' learned that sho'was his wife, they ap plied to the man in admiration to learn how be had kept the practice up for twen- • ty years. • _ AN Easter that doesn't produce seven 4 hundred puns of the " eggs-traordinary " atid "eggs.aggerated " kind may be set • dawn' asp failure. There should be a law_ imposing solitary imprisonment for life on the tiaragrafthist who employs this sort •of pun when speaking-of eggs.—Norris- town lireratd. - Chief of Police in St. Petersburg - has resigned, but the Czar won't accept his resignation, and the , poor man 'expects to be shot in his tracks every moment. Better be a humble policeman locusting , an inoffensive citizen in New-York than the chief of the " force " in St. Peters burg.—Detroit Free Press. Scax - c . : The outside of an omnibus.. Party (who doesn't know much about 'oases) And 'what do you call the horse on the right-hand side, driver? He looks a good sort." (Driver—"Oh, that's the off un." Party—" Is it, indeed? Dear me l Lost both his parents, _I s'pose ?" [But what on earth were they all laugh ing at?] r SOME people declare that they have a good time when they, sin. If you watch carefully, however, you will find that the sin and the good time are like the compo nent parts of a .scidlitz powder when tak en separately. They look perfectly harm less unit they are swallowed; but then there is difficulty. • E. C. STEDMAN slngs,l in Scribner, "Why should I fear- ,s. sip the sweets of each red lip?" 'Wlfy ? Because, Mr. Stedman, you have tr co nviction that the gloomy-looking old gentleman -in 'the : back-ground; with blood in his eye and a cane like the angel of death in bis , band, will make a poultice of you, if you do any such' sampling while he is in reach.— ' . _ l , Hawkeye. - . . • WATERING. IN A DRY Tutz.--Iri the summer iliyughts which now and then occur it is common to: see per sons everywhere at work watering the garden to keep things alive till the regulir rains .come. IL is, how ever,.the experience of all; that the'. more the-garden is watered the More it wants, and; thus on the whole it does little good. Yet water can be so given as to be free from this . 0- jection. It is the hardening of the surface which causes the evil, and a har, compact surface always dries out' faster than a loose one.. The proper way is to take the earth away -for a few inches around the plant to. I be watered, so as, to make a sort of I basin, and into this pour the water, letting it gradually soak away. After it - has all disappeared and the stir : lace. gets a little: dry, . then draw the earth, back again which has.ken mis placed, to makethe baiin. - This will make a loose surface_ over the water ed pSrt, which will preserve it from drying one rapidly. -Tomatoes, egg plants, Cabbages and other thing! of this character, watered in this way will need no renewal or water for several weeks Itis a slow Way of gettingsnch work done, but it is the only way of doing it.
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