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January 1, ISfllt.
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PEltKINS & HOUHU'S PATKNT
NON-EXPLOSIVE
METALLIC KEEOSENE LAMP.
Is ABBOUiTF.i.r bafb from explosion or breaking;
burns any Coal oil, good or bad ; gives Mollis liuut,
110 odor, and uses less oil.
"It perfectly non-earjiosiw. The light Is bet
tor than is produced by any other lamp." W. N.
Oerk, J'reetiknt 0 Sfuiuuchusettt Atrlculturul
OAleys.
"It Is perfectly non-explosive, give a better
lluht and 1 more economical than unv other laiuii
lii use." W. W. WMi, late Huperlntenilent if
jtUHle ucnoou, trncago.
The apalllnp deaths and fires from glass lamps
exploding and breaking create a great demand (or
this lamp. It VVifir to sell It. tkXd by unmuert;
AoBNTt wanted bvkht WHKRI . Heud for a circu
lar and terms to Hontuameru ft Vu. , Cleveland, O,
t Barclay HI reel. New Vork.
Why Keep That Cough?
When a bottle of Kohrer'i Lung Balsam will
cure It. It l pleasant to take, and more eflec-
tlve than any other cough medicine. Try 11,
For aale by V. Mortimer & Co., '.New Bloom,
ueld.and moat other store la the county. If.
IN THE WRONG ROOM.
11Y F. PELACY.
Mil. GE011GK SMITH owned a
nice littlo l'arm about twenty inilos
from Cincinnati, and devoted most of its
products and his tittio to raising Btouk.
Last spring ho had a drovo of a dozen
young mules ready for market, nnd con
sequently one morning having made nil
necessary nrrangomcnts for his departure
loft homo with his drove expecting to find
salo for them in Cincinnati. Tho " good
bye" of Mrs. Smith was accompanied with
tho request " and now Oeorgo don't for
get to bring mo a pretty carpet for the
new room," this room being an addition
which Mr. Smith had just inado to his
house.
Arriving at tho Queen City George was
tempted by an advertisement of " mulks
wanted" which ho saw in a Wheeling
papor to tako his stock on to that city,
where ho duly arrived and found ready
sale at prices fur beyond his expectations.
His success put him in such good hu
mor that ho determined not only to get
for his wifo tho new carpet, which she
wanted, but a complete set of furniture
for tho room, nnd for i'ear sho might not
bo suited with his selection, ho determin
ed to have her meet him at Cincinnati
and help him in tho purchase.
He accordingly wroto her a letter
which closed with this paragraph.
" Ihavo been so successful in selling my
mules that I have concluded to entirely
furnish that now room, and I want you
to help to make tho selection. I shall
return by bout which will bring mo to
Cincinnati on Friday evening and you
can bo at tho Spcnce IIouse,by that time,
when I will meet you. I will writo to tho
landlord to havo a room for you on your
arrival."
Mm. Smith was delighted with the con
tents of this letter and hastened to com
ply with her husband's request.
The train by which sho reached Cin
cinnati, arrived at the city about 3 o'clock,
and upon preseutinJhcrself at the Spencer
IIouso, she was at onco shown to tho
room which had been reserved in ao
cordanco with tho instructions from Mr.
Smith. This was room No. 30.
It would bo several hours beforo Mrs.
Smith could expect her husband and
thcrcforo after a low minutes rest, she de
cided to take a walk. Sho accordingly
left tho key of her room at tho offico nnd
started out to see tho fashions on Fourth
street.
Tho train from Columbus arrived in
tho city at about this time, and shortly af
ter her departure n fine looking country
gcntlcmun walked up to tho office of tho
Spencer House and entered his numo on
tho register.
The clerk turned tho book around,
looked at tho name and said : " am pleased
too see you sir, got hero sooner than you
expected didn't you."
" No, I think not" replied tho gentle
man. " Tho train is duo at 4 o'clock."
O, you came by tho cars instead of the
boat, thut accounts for your being here so
curly said tho clerk, " hero John" con
tinued ho calling a porter "show Mr.
Smith to No. 30. Here is tho key."
A few moments lutcr tho gentleman
stood in No. 30 looking around with con
siderable astonishment, for Mrs. Smith
had mado somo changes in her apparel
before leaving for her walk, and conse
quently there were several orticles lying
around, that ho felt suro did not belong
to tho masculine toiletto uuless there had
been somo radical changes mado in tho
fashions. Why ho should bo put in a
room apparently belonging to some lady
he could not imagine, nnd yet that such
was tho fact seemed beyond dispute.
Tho gentleman who was looking around
this room, was Mr. Geo. Smith, a middle
aged pcrsou of decidedly bachelor proo
livities who resided in tho interior of the
Stato and was now in tho city on his
first visit.
llo had arrived so near the time when
tho other Georgo Smith was ex
pected, thut tho clerk ut onco supposed
him to bo the husband of tho lady who
had previously arrived, and consequently
sent liim to the same room.
As it was evidently intended he should
occupy this room the gentleman proceed
ed to take a good wash and change his
clothing as the long ride had been rath
er a dusty ono.
Whilo he was engaged iu this agrcoublo
occupation, Mrs Smith returned from her
walk, and upon asking at the ofTioo for
the key wus informed that her husband
had arrived and had the key, he having
gone up to her room.
Sho hastened eagerly up stairs anxious
to welcome her husband who.she had not
seen since Monday. When she tried to
open the door she found it locked and in
answer to her knock, camo the inquiry
" who's there !"
" Only mo" was the reply " lot me in
George.
" Who's me ?" was now asked from in
side, and continued the voice " I am not
in condition to reooive calls."
" What a cold he has taken and how
hoarse he is," thought Mrs. Smith, as she
replied, " now George you know who I
am, and you can lot your wifo in if you
ain't dressed just so nice."
" My wife 1". ejaculated the astonished
man, 11 what do you moun madam, I have
do wile.
" Deuced strange though, thought ho,
she evidently knows my name, and who
can sho bo.
"Oh 1 you are at 0110 of your jokes again
are you ? well I will go to tho parlor,
and you can find me there when you
wish to see me, but it is mean of you to
play me such a trick when I wanted to
see you so bad; you might let mo in" said
Mrs. Smith as sho roluctantly turned
away Irom tho door.
"This is allflrod queer" soliloquised
Smith, "blamo mo if I understand it. I
would think she was mistaken, only sho
called mo by name. I have heard that
a fellow has all sorts of games practiced
on him in the city, but darn my buttons
if any ono can niarry mo, or claim to bo
my wifo in that sudden manner. I'll not
go near tho parlor that's certain, and thore
can't any woman come it over mo in that
fashion."
In accordance with that resolution,
Smith staid in his room until tea was
ready, when ho went direct to tho dining
room, and after tea took a short walk
as was his custom at home, when he re
turned and retired early.
In tho mean whilo, Mrs. Smith sat for
somo time in tho parlor in momentary ex
pectation of seeing her husband, but af
ter an hour or more had dragged along
nnd sho did not put iu an appearance,
sho finally got angry and inwardly vowed
that sho would never go near that roo 111
again until Smith asked her. As tho
evening advanced sho begun to get very
tired and finally as all but her had left
the room she reclined 011 tho sofa nnd
ere she knew it was asleep.
The boat from Wheeling arrived about
9 o'clock nnd as soon as it touched
tho Levee, Mr. Smith sprang ashoro and
hastened to tho " Spencer" anxious to
clasp his wifo to his bosom. As ho reg
istered his name, he said :
" lias Mrs. Georgo Smith arrived ? if
so please show mo to her room."
Tho clerk was so astonished that ho
could for a moment only stare at tho
gentleman in amazement, and ere he
could reply, Mr. Smith again said :
" I expected to meet my wife here
as I wroto you I should, hasn't she ar
rived ?"
" Y es" stammered out the clerk with
much hesitation, Mrs. Smith came on the
3 o'clock train."
"Well then show mo to her room, what
arc you stummcring about," said Smith.
" Thcro is somo mistuke" replied the
clerk, " about an hour after Mrs. Smith
arrived a gentleman camo and registered
his name as George Smith and I sent him
to her room, as I supposed him to be her
husband, I haven't seen him since."
" Well, whero U my wifo ? haven't you
seen her cither ?"
" No sir," said the clerk.
" Show mo to that room," exclaimed
tho now thoroughly excited Smith, "I will
see to this business. A pretty blunder
you havo made."
Tho clerk hustencd to comply with
this demand, and accompanied by the
angry husband, was soon at tho door of
No. 30.
" What's wanted" was the reply to the
vigorous knocks of Smith.
"Where's my wife?" was tho answer.
" Now look here stranger, I have been
bothered enough about wives sinco I
came to this house, and you had better
quit bothering 111c, or somo ono will get
hurt."
Tho only reply to this speech was a
still more positive demand for admission,
to which tho inside Smith returned
an equally positively refusal.
Tho clerk now spoko up and said " if
you will let us iu Mr. Smith wo cun ex
plain," and in answer to this request the
door was opened and tho parties entered.
licforo the clerk could begin his expla
nation his companion who had pressed
hastily in nnd had been anxiously look
ing around the room, discovered some
articles which ho recognized as his wife's
property, and his demands to know her
whereabouts, so exasperated Mr. Smith
number one, that only the interposition of
tho clerk saved the parties from damaging
each others countenances.
When the clerk had finally got a
chance to explain matters to the occu
pant of the room, our bachelor friend at
once saw why a woman had insisted upon
coming in, claiming to be his wifo, and
when iu return ho had told his story
winding up by saying " perhaps the wo
man is still in the parlor," thcro was a
hasty departure for that locality, by the
married Smith.
With the meeting and explanations of
the married oouplo we have nothing to do,
but will just mention that tho husband
shortly returned to No. 30 for the arti
cles belonging to his wife, they having
been assigned to some other room.
About that time- the single Smith
might have been heard to mutter some
thing about married men expecting to be
troubled, but that matters had come to a
pretty pass if bachelors had to be so both
ered with other men's wives ; while the
olork most emphatically affirmed, that in
the futuro, when a Mrs. Smith camo to
the house followed by a Mr. Smith, he
would hear testimony in the caso, before
deciding that the masculine Smith was
the husband of that or any other woman.
tST Two clerks are offered an addition
to their salaries ; one has a rise of five
pounds every year, and the other ten
pounds every two years j which of them
has the better bargain, and by how niuchf
SUNDAY HEADING.
A Lesson on tho Value of Kindness.
A THICK carpet had lately been put
down in tho dining-room at the
squiro's residence, which was found to
prevent the door from oponing nnd shut
ting easily, so Wedge, the village carpen
ter, was sent for to ease it. At six
o'clock, whilst he was still at work, car
riage wheels were distinctly heard, and
tho squiro's lady with her children, camo
down into tho hall, ready to wclcomo
homo Mr. Cary, who had boon that day
to town. Vcdgo, who was working in
sido tho dining-room, listened with aston
ishment as he heard tho shout tho chil
dren gave when their father stepped out
of tho carriago. Ho saw, also, through
tho door crack, that tho two eldest had
caught hold of his hands, whilst tho
younger ones wcro clinging liko littlo
barnacles to his coat-tails ; all dragging
him along, as if, onco having got him into
their net, they meant spider-like, to bind
him hand and foot, and devour him, as
that interesting insect would a great blue
bottle-fly, at their leisure.
That the squire's return should cause
such delight was a puzzler for our worthy
friend ; for had he not, with his own eyes
seen this man go ofFat half-past nino in
the morning, no ono could have persuaded
him other wise than that ho must have
been away n month, to put it at tho low
est figure. Ho saw, moreover, that tho
squiro was holding tightly in his hand a
littlo parcel, which shaking off tho chil
dren, by a number of littlo dodges of
which loving father only know tho se
cret, ho quickly untied, for all tho world
as if ho were a boy of five years old (and
not a great man of fourteen stone weight)
who could not wait a moment for any
thing. Iu a shorter time than wo tako to
write, ho pulled out tho contents and gnvo
them to his wifo, with three distinct
kisses. edge could swear there were
three, for ho counted them, and wonder
ed how many moro there were to como !
Soon tho merry party went up stairs
tho echo of their voices died away, and
Wedge was left to finish his job on tho
door, whilst his heart and conscience
began their work on him. He, too, had
a homo and wifo and children ; ho, too,
had been away ; but tho thought struck
him uncomfortably that his wclcomo homo
that is if ho got 0110 at all, would seem
poor and cold after that which ho had
just witnessed. This reflection was not
so sweet as to make his work go smooth
ly ; his saw seemed as blunt as a double
bladed sixpenny penknife, and tho wood
of tho tho chair, whoso legs ho was cut
ting down, os hard as bog oak. In fact
ho was feeling jealous of tho squire and
discontented with hjs own wife and chil
dren. Why wcro not they eager to rush
out and wclcomo him, after the fashion
of tho squire's family? Ho frowned as he
thought how badly ho was used, and his
saw grated away as though very dull.
5ut conscience had a word to say to
him, and said it loud enough too for him
to hear, although ho was making noise
enough to preveut any ono from trying
to gain his attention. It told him tho
fault was chiefly in himself, for if his
wifo and children wcro not liko the
squire's, neither wos his likeness to that
worthy gcntlcmun particularly striking.
He couldn't blamo his wifo for not mak
ing enough of his present, for he well
know ho never gave her any 5 nor did ho
greet her with those kind words which
would not have failed to draw tho sumo
from her.
Wedgo was a good husband without
being a kind ouo, spending his money for
tho most purt on his fumily in a hard business-like
kind of way, buts bowing no
affection towards his children, who conse
quently did not lovo him.
As Wedge wulked liome, his tools on
his back, he camo across an old friend,
carrying carefully a daiuty bunch of
snow-drops in his big, round hand.
" Hero, Will," he said walkiug along
by tho carpenter's sido. " I've just given
a triflo for these flowers pretty bits , of
things, ain't they ? for my wife makes
so much of any littlo present I tako her
home ; sho never minus what I bring her,
so long as I bring it to her myself, for to
bo sure I always tack on a littlo some
thing in the shape of a few kind words,
which makes the thing seem valuublo in
her eyes. I don't know how I should
get on sometimes, if it weren't for having
flowers pretty handy ; you can get them
for a little or nothing at any time, and
yet they are more beautiful than any
thing wo could make."
edge's road now lay in a different di
rection from his friend's, so they parted
company, Joe Sparks, putting a couple of
snowdrops into Will's hand, supposiug
ho would know well enough what to do
with them.
Wedgo turned the snowdrops over in
his hand, and looked after Joo, who had
nearly turned the oorner j what could the
man mean by giving him the snow
drops and never saying a word t He
couldn't have known what had juxt hap
pened at the hall; yet it seemed strange
that he should come up and say all this
about presents just when Wedge was
thinking about that very subioot, and en
joying the excuse too, that he couldn't
affordjto buy his wife anything." But
now having the snowdrops, ana having
heard so much about them, it seemed as
if nothing else would do but that ho must
give them to his wifo, and this proceed
ing would bo such a new and extraordi
nary ono that tho very thought made him
feel sheepish.
'Wedge's wifo was a nico woman, but
family cares wero weighing her down,
so that the light was fast dying out of
her eyes, and tho color fading from hor
cheeks. Sho would not havo minded
them half nor even a quarter as much if,
when Wedgo camo homo, she could havo
told him all about them for ten to ono
he could have set things right. But ho
always pooh-poohed when sho ventured to
begin the subject, so that she loft off
looking for help whero there was none to
bo got. It seemed to Wedgo that if ho
paid down in hard cash for clothing, feed
ing and schooling tho family, he had done
his share towards their bringing up.
Such being tho stato of things, you may
well imagine how surprised was Mrs.
Wedge when sho heard a cheerful voico
call out, " whore arc you, Mary?" But
greater still was her'nstonishmcnt, when
on going to tho door, her husband pre
sented her with tho snowdrops, declaring
as ho put them in her hands, that " beau
tiful as they were he thought tho rosebud
on her arm beat them out nnd out."
Wedgo had done many a handy bit of
work with tho tools on his back, but he
did a neater job now with those snow
drops than ho had ever done with all of
them put together, for ho so to speuk,
sawed Mary's heart right in two, and got
to tho very insido and planed down no
end of knots and rough places, and
French-polished her oft', as if she had
been somo choico piece of cabinet to be
sold for nobody knows what.
That day was tho beginning of bright
er times ; Mary's heart having becu, as
we beforo said, sawed right open, never
closed up again, by reason of her hus
bands continually puttins in ono little
thing and another on purpose to keep it
open ; and warm streams of affectioncamo
gushing out that nobody knew were ever
there ut all, they were hidden down so
deep. And as to Wedge, ho never knew
beforo how many pretty littlo speeches he
could make. Without any notice before
hand whatever, they socmed to como from
somcwhero insido already made, packed
up and directed, ready to bo delivered
" with euro this sido up," to his wife,
whilo tho contents of theso said parcels
or sentences, generally brought a smile
on Mrs. Wedge's face and made her as
lively as a cricket for some time to come.
A Story of a Kiss.
IS
7"E find in tho American Newspaper
' Juporter, t
the following " storv of
a kiss, in winch the names of various
newspapers throughout tho country are
ingeniously introduced :
Having a Leisure Hour in which to
mako my Morning Call, I went to the
Hearth and Home of Matilda Jano.
Thcro being no Spy, Watchman, or Ex
amincr around, and her Guardian gone
outy no ono was likely to come to the lies
cue. So this was my Signal for an Ap
peal to her for such a Free Press upon
her lips as would make tho Valley Echo.
" It cun never Jiee," sho said, nnd the
New Idea seemed to greatly Agitator. I
always uso Dispatch iu theso matters; so
aftor waiting a moment to Pacificator, I
again attempted tho Exchange. I felt a
Little Sower to find her so Independent,
though she admitted that she liked my
Society. I told hor I would never Lever
that I would Defender and her Rural
Home, nnd thut above all, I would never
make my Headlight with the Grape Vine.
I even ngrced not to dissa Banger in nny
wny, or Advertiser, without sho got lost.
I call her my Guardian Angel, etc., and
yet she told me I might (Scion that I
Kad no business to make an Advance to a
girl of her Good Taste ; that I couldn't
Comet over ;;cr, and that I had better
Lookout and get somo Common Some.
But I did Elevator head at last, and did
Post a Capital Press on hor lips, ond wo
both had Capital Times by tho Evening
Lamp and Every Day. Of course L
asked her to be mino, but sho said sho
never could marry a Western Farmer, al
though she did believe in a Christian
Union. I contiuuod to Cultivator, how
evor, but I had a first-class heart-ache,
that the whole Medical World could not
have cured ; so one day went boldly
forth and told hor that I was a Woman s
Friend, and bound to become a Lady's
Companion. The Crisis was certainly ut
hand. " Are you a Temperance Advo
cate f" said sho. " I am said I. " You
are mine." " No ; Miner." said she. So
1 am glad I tried the Experiment, for wo
are married now, and the Union is a hap
py one. We are doing well in the Liv
ing Way. Our Venture in in all respects
successful. We are both in Good Health,
and are looking for Young Folks. I am
sure that for that first kiss I shall never
Reporter. To which we might add, hud
the young couple only settled in Bloom
field, they might continue to enjoy good
Times.
-Teacher "Mary,' dear, suppose
I were to shoot at a tree with five birds
on it and kill three, how many would be
loft T" Mary, four years old" Three,
ma'am." -Teacher No, two would be
left.' Mary "No, there wouldn't,
though, the three shot would bo loft, and
and the other two would be flied away."