sty :! la ml Wll MbMb&Mb fill 1 if 11 l:r f,S ? FRANK MORTIMER, Editor and Proprietor. J Vol. V. lit Ioomfitlb jhius. Js FnbUslied Weekly, At New Rloomflcld, Pcnn'a. FRANK MORTIMER. BunscnirTiON tf.iimb. i. r i i: it "v .v. it i 7 H Cents for 0 Months 40 Cents for 3 Months, IN ADVANCE. SEEDS. We nre (owing, duily sowing, Countless seeds of good and 111 ; Scattorcd on the level lowland, Cast upon the windy hill j Seeds that sink In rich brow n furrows, Soft with heaven's gracious rain ; Seeds that rest upon the surface Of the dry, unyielding plain. Seeds that fall amid the stillness Of the lonely mountuln glen, Seeds cast out In crowded places, Trodden under foot of men j Heeds by Idle hearts forgotten, Flung at random on the air ; Seeds by faithful souls remembered, Sown In tears and love and prayer. Seeds that lie unchanged, unquickened, Lifeless on the teeming mould ; Seeds tbat live and grow and flourish When the sower's band Is cold By a whisper we sow blessings, By a breath we scatter strife ; In our words and looks and actions Lie the seeds of death and life. Thou who knowest all our weakness, Leave us not to sow alone 1 Bid Thine angels guard the furrows Where the precious grain is sown, Till tho fields are crowned with glory, Filled with mellow ripened ears Filled with fruit of life eternal From the seed wo sowed In tears. Check the froward thoughts and passions, Stay the hasty, heedless hands, Lest the germs of sin nud sorrow Mar our faith and pleasant lands. Father, help each weak endeavor, Make each faithful eifort blest, Till Thy harvest shall be garnered, And we enter Into rest. Chigson's Plot. A MYSTEUY IX THE FAMILY. CONCLUDED. HKlt warning had coino too late. Ilartz, catching at tho first thing in ltia way, as some people will when over taken by sudden confusion, had got pos session of the Hliot-gun used by Edith lu for aging for hor collociion. According to the invariable practice of hadcd guns when handled carelosHly, tills one went oil", lodg ing its coutents lu his side. Kdith sprang towards him with a sharp cry. "Servos him light," squeaked Mr. Chig non, with evident satisfaction. I caught the empty gun, and might have committed an assault and battery upon Mr. Chigson's person, but Edith'H hand rest ing lightly upon my arm, brought me to iny senses. She was supporting the wound ed man now upon one side, and Isla upon tho other ; but Edith quickly gave up her place to me. She had by this time perfectly regained her equanimity. "Mr! Chigson," she said, with calm de cision, " You will help Uncle Lemuel carry Mr. Hartz Into the huff-chamber. Isla, have the goodness to Bond Jerry for Dr. Collups ; and ask the housekeeper to have a room prepared for Unole Lemuel, lie will stay hero at present, to help tuko euro of Ids Mend." Everything was douo just uh she directed. Mr. Ilartz was removed to tho buff-chamber, and given in charge to me. lie was pretty badly hurt, and there seemed to be no heart it. the man to stimulate his recov ery. Deliver me, henceforth and forever, from again standing in a Kloronce Night ingale capacity to a man who, on his own part, in nursing a disappointed love. Edith placed everything in the house at my dis posal for the patient's beuefit, but did not herself come near liira. Isla, however, sometimes relieved me at my post, and now and then drew mo outsldo for a brief conference on tho vexing subject of Mr, Chignon. She had learned at last the true tale of affairs, and was In dire rebellion AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY TVoav 13ioomfiolcl, ! against her proposed brother-in-law. Warm j words had passed between her and Edith, I or rather, I believe, tho warmth was all on Isht's part, and an estrangement was grow j Ing up between tho sisters. I " It Is only lior money that lie wants," i Raid Isla, In one of our many conferences. '" I would give him nil mine willingly, if ! he'd take it and not troublo us again. Do ! you suppose lie would, if I made him the offer?" 1 "Probably not. He wants money, no doubt, but ho wants Edith too. I don't so much wonder at that, but the Oordian knot with mo is that Edith should want him. Do you think alio may have com mitted somo gravo indiscretion which is known to him, and gives him n hold upon her?" " I don't belicvo that Edith over com mitted an indiscretion in her life. She has been the wisest monitress to me sister, friend and counsellor, all In one. It breaks my heart that I mtiHt lose her so ; but I can't tolerate that onaconda, even for her." At last my patient began to mend. I thought it the host thing he could do un der the circumstances, and told him so, ad ding a recommendation from Macbeth that "if 'twere done, why, then, 'twere best it were done quickly." " By Jove, I belicvo you aro right !" re turned Hartz, smiling feebly. " I havo been sadly troublesome, I fear, but I mean to give my mind now to getting well." " 1 begin to have hopo of you. In a week from to-day I shall have you out to rido," I said, encouragingly. And I did ; choosing tho hour of noon, when the air is least charged with miasmat ic vapors ; when, too, Mr. Chigson was less likely to bo about tho house. Edith came out into tho hall whon we had got so far, shook hands with Mr. Ilartz, and congrat ulated him in a few quiet words upon his recovery. "Yes," he said, " I have concluded that life is better than death, even If one only lives to suffer." Edith sighed faintly, nud leaned against the jamb of the door. " How long will you bo gone, Uncle Lem uel ?" she inquired. " About as long as Tuck wouldbein put ting a girdlo round tho earth, according to his own blagging," I returned, giving Haitz my arm to the carriage. Isla had been hovering Bomewhere near, but would not come out until Edith had re treated. Their estrangomont had now reached such a point that they avoided each other when they could. So at this time tho elder sister's return to the pailor was a signal for tho other to come flying down to tho carriage. "Don't let Undo Lemuel laud you among the cherubs, Mr. Ilartz," she rec ommended, laughing. Then she came close to me and uttered in a breathless whisper, " The marriage day is appointed. It is to be Saturday of this week. I overheard them talking of it last night ; and I shall go away from horo to-morrow." " Do nothing rashly," I advised, feeling equal myself, howovor, to almost any rash thing unless it were nettle-rash, from which I should probably have wished to be excused. 1 "I don't want to ; but I can't stay. Do you know, I think Mr. Chigson is hurrying on the marriage, so that it may Ito while Ilartz is in tho house. He wants to parade his triumph." " Insolent 1" I muttered, flourishing tho whip I held, which was very naturally ta ken by the horses as a signal for starting though I had not intended it so. I think Ilartz may have guessed the na ture of Isla's whispored communication, for ho looked extremely miserable when the horses gave me leisure to observe him ; and the only social demonstrations I could get from him wore a few imperfectly uttered mouosylablcs. Finding this not very cheer ful, and discovering, moreover, that tho air outside was less agreeable than in tho sheltered grounds of tho villa, I cut short tho drive, and at the end of twenty-five minutes was back within the precincts so lately left. But now iny patient, with tho unreasonableness of a child spoiled by sick ness, insisted upon being allowed to lenve the carriage and walk the rest of the way to the house, after a season of repose in a littlo grotto of rock work and trailing vines, near the outside of the grounds. I urged tho Insalubrious dampness of the ground genorally, and rockwork grottos In partic ular, at this autumnal season, but Ilartz meant to have his way, and did have it. I sent on the carriage by a servant who happened to be passing, and retired to the grotto with my willful comrade. Tho 3?i., Tiiosclny, Novombor S21, 1871. placo was villanously damp, and inhabited by several colonies of spiders and other creeping things. The entranco, however, was on the sunny sido, which made things a littlo more cheerful. A tanglo of leafless vines falling over this formed a sort of Bcrocn, but did not excludes tho sun. ; "If we had the vivid imaginations of! misses in their teens, I suppose we might i imagine mat wo were enjoying tins im mensely," I said. " Yes, I havo seen Edith come hero often." " Now look hero, young man. If you havo got yourself landed hero to indulgo in sentimental misery, and invito a relapse " " A relapse of what? gunshot wounds ? Don't cry out before you aro hurt. I want to study tho design of this rockwork. I may have occasion to build myself a den sometime. Now, whatever you do don't talk to mo." i " I won't I said, shutting iny mouth, and ; presently my eyes, for I had lost a good deal i of sleep lately, on account of my patieut. ; I don't think I went fairly off in a dozo, but pretty soon I heard Edith and Isla talking outsido tho grotto, without any knowledgo i of how they had como thcro. ! " I am going to make you ono last ap peal, Edith," said the younger sister. "If I have seemed cross lately it was only bo cause I am so wretched, and not lccauso I love you any the less. Dear, dear sister, there arc only you and I. If wo are to bo separated it will bo by your own act. Do n ot place the hideous wall of Libbocus Chigson between us." " I do not see, Isla doar, why ho should bo a wall between us. Yon can surely en him if if you choose." " I believe you were going to say "if I can' I know it is endurance for you. You do not love him. Ho must be re volting to your refined tastes and foelings. Edith, Uncle Lcm has asked mo if it was possible that you could have committed somo grave indiscretion known to Mr. Chigson, ond had consented to marry him rather than havo it revealed. I disdained tho thought nt llrst, but I havo been ublo to think of nothing clso. Edith, whatever it is, it cannot bo so bad as he is. (), do please tako mo into your confidence ? Wo used to Imj nil in all to each other. I can cannot bear to be so thrust into outer darkness." " This, too !" cried Edith in a tone of anguish. Ilartz clutched my arm, nud seemed on tho point of rushing out, but I held him firmly in his seat. Isla, you must not think what you have snid ; Undo Lemuel must not think so. Do you not know that in marringo opposite almost al ways unito?" A groan from Hrtz. I wished him and myself back in tho buff-chamber. At this rat, a renewal of his illness was certainly inevitable. " Thoso opposite hi tomporamont may and should, perhaps," Isla replied; "but women of cultivation nnd refinement do not mate with boors. Edith, I love Alston Ilarlcigh. I think there aro but fow men nobler and truer than he. Ho is coming home in six weeks, and I count the days as they go by. But if ho were as ropulsivo to you as Libbocus Chigson is to me, I would never consent to see him again," " It is for you as much as myself. O me ! I believe I am losing my senses." She was silent for a moment; when sho spoko again it was in the quiet tone now habitual to her. " Isla, we aro talking to no purpose. You will understand mo butter somotime. Until then you may think anything but that I do not love you." " Now that you have got bock thut tone I know, indeed, that wo are talking to no purpose," said Isla, in a sad spiritless way. Site walked off directly, and Edith began to work among the vines, removing ' somo of tho most delicate from tho rockwork, and potting them for winter protection. Ilartz leaned heavily against mo. "It Is wealing work," he whisjMrcd, "this groping for light against a blank wall, is it not, I'ynstall?" "Don't grope then." " You might say to one who had a diffi culty in breathing, don't breathe," Hartz retorted, dryly. " I shall havo u chance to say it to you, If you stay much longer in this moist pic turesque retreat." " Don't bother I feel no chill, and I am not restod enough to go yet. Tliero comes another I" A dark-robed fuinulu figure glided by the mouth of our den, as ho spoke, seeing Edith, it appeared. " My child I my own daughter !" , she NEWSPAPER. cried, her voice creaking liko an ungreas ed cart wheel in its effort to bo pathetic. ' Mother," said Edith, in quivering tones, " was it well to como here ?" " I don't know. Ifo, my benefactor, said I must not, but I could not stay away. Bad ns I am, I have n mother's heart." "The deuce you have 1 I wonder where you got it !" I ejaculated, under my breath. " I did not mean to chide you, mother. I was coming to seo you again soon. I think about you day and night. Are you quito comfortable in your now rooms? Do you have everything you need ?" "Yes, most everything. I was thinking tho other day that somo lace curtains would set off tho parlor nicely, but it's no matter. I don't deserve lace curtains, I am sure." "You shall havo tho curtains. You would like to hear about Isla, I supposo ? Sho is very well, and your brother, too, Un cle Lemuel, though he has been ill quite j lately. It seems hard that you cannot seo them, but you yourself ngreo that it is best so." " I don't though !" roared I, suddenly ap pearing beforo tho pair. " Edith, who does this woman claim to bo?" " Do yon not know her?" gasped my niece. " I certainly havo not that pleasure, though you spoko of mo as her brother,and havo addresKcd her as your mother. There is deception nt work here. Your mother, child, died years ago in the sunny South." " It was so reported, Undo Lemuel, but she did not die. Sho left my father foi another man. You wcro in Europe nt that time, you know. Papa was too proud to havo the truth known." " Edith, my sister Miriam was as good, and true, and puro as tho angels. This woman is a lio a cheat. Sho knows I speak tho truth." "I expected ho would dhsown me," whin ed tho woman. " I told you so." And now, Ilartz, whom I had abandon ed summarily, appeared upon tho scone. "If this woman claims to bo Mrs. Fian cis Cathard, I'ynstall is right in calling her a lio," ho declared. "Your fathor, Miss Edith, and mine wcro friends. It was while visiting at our liouso that Mrs. Cathard took a malignant fever nud died. I was only a boy, but I romomler her perfectly ; a sweet, saintly, and most lovely woman as unliko this ono ns possible. You have been imposed upon by a gross deception, nnd I think I know what villain planned and hoped to reap profit largely from the lio. Tliero ho comes Libbocus Chigson. Havo tho goodness to remind him, Miss Kdith, that in building of falsehoods, ns of chaises, " There Is always somewhere a weakest spot," and at that weakest spot his has, unfortu nately for him broken down." Edith was trembling violently, but she helil tho blanching Libbocus with a Ann eye. "Is it true, Mr. Chigson," sho demand ed, with scathing emphasis, "that this wo man is an impostor?" Libbocus pawciTMbo ground with one foot, glanced at tho woman, and received from her a most crestfallen nod, then turn ed away and made an Inglorious retreat. While I was congratulating Edith, tho women also slunk away. Hartz followed mo iu congratulations, contriving to mix a little tender by-play therewith, which I do not intend to put upon record. Isla, who had probably seen from the house that something unusual was going on, came down to investigate. I begged to be allow ed to condole with her for the loss of a brother-in-law. Sho looked from me to Edith, clapped her hands and burst into tears. " How did you do it, you darling Undo Lcm?" sho asked, smiling, and crying, and fondling Edith and me all at once. : I told her how it was done. ' " Dear Edith, how much must have 1 been suffered !" sho said, softly kissing 1 her. I "I bore it, dear, for you. Partly, indeed, ; to save our house from shame, but chiefly for you. I know tho proud blood of the Harlelglis would reject an alliance with a tarnished name, and your own, as proud, would equally spurn to humiliate them. At first I did shrink from sacrificing my self, nnd sent for Undo Lemuel in tho hope that ho might dlscovor some other way. But when the time allowed me by Mr. Chigson for decision had gone by without bringing Uncle Lein, I thought it had bo como my duty to bearalono the cross and the shame. God bo praised that tho long torture Is over." . . " I hojxs though, Isla, that your objection to a brother-in-law was specific and not miL' Term: IX ADVAXCB m 5 Per Year. TVo. 47. general, ns I think you are still liable to havo ono," I remarked. "If Mr. Hartz is to bo he," laughed Is la, giving him her hand, "I shall adviso Edith to clear her houso of firearms before tho wedding day," Without doubt this was done, for there hns been no accidental shooting at the villa sinco Edith becamo Mrs. Ilartz. As for Chigson, the concluding couplet of an epitaph on Tom Paino, which I have read somewhere, will finish him : " Where he's gone, ond how ho fares, Noliody knows and nobody carcB." The Continental Navy. The war of tho Revolution was begun without a single armed vessel. The first in tho servico were fitted out by Rhode Island, in 1773, winch were two schooners in tho defence of tho coasting trade. That Stato was also the first to recom mend to Congress tho formation of a naval force, nud in December, 1775, Congrcsn commissioned thirteen vessels, ns a com menccment of the navy. In tho spring of 1770, Massachusetts fit ted out several armed vessels, the flag of which was white, with the flguro of a pine) or liberty tree, with tho motto, " We ap peal to Heaven." Tho flint naval battlo took place about three weeks after the battlo of Lexington, a Captain Whcaton being said to have caused the striking of the llrst British flag on the ocean. No Congressional laws had been passed for the creation of tho navy, and when Washington undertook to get up and send to sea an expedition of six vessels, he wn obliged to address them as "part of the army." Tho earliest frigate from Philadelphia, tho Alfred, Captain Hopkins, of which Paul Jones was the Lieutenant, displayed n flag of thirteen stripes of red and blue, with a rattlesnake in a running attitude, mouth open and sting projected, with the " Don't tread on me." This same Hag was borno by tho Alliance frigato, under com mand of Paul Jones, when, bIio dashed through a British fleet of twonty-ono sail of war vessels in tho North Sea, receiving their lire and making her escape. A Lon don paper of July, 177(1, commends the de vice of tho rattlesnake, and regards it as peculiarly appropriate to our American po sition and character. Tho otliec.rs of tho first navy wow in many respects different from tho present. In their dress there was but littlo show or grandeur. They wore small cocked hats, without laco ; hair powdered and curled ; coats witli ample skirts nnd four-anchor buttons; small clothes, hose and shoes. Their dignity and s e-nnass, when they aimed at any, was not before their country men, but before tho enemy. They had not been bred originally for a drawing room and courtly display, but they had no deficiency iu polished circles when called to the ex ercise of their rules and usages. Work Done by the Lungs. Three hundred and fifty to four hundred cubic feet of air pass through tho lungs of an adult man who takes littlo or no exer cise, In the course of twenty-four hours,and aro charged with carbonic acid, and aro de prived of oxygen to tho extent of nearly five per cent, which amounts to about eighteen cubic feet of tho ono gas taken in and of tho other given out. If a man be shut up in a closo room, having tho form of a cube seven feet inside, every parti cle of the air in tho room will in twonty four hours have passed though his lungs, and one fourth of tho oxygen it contains will bo replaced by carbonic ncid. The amount of carbon eliminated in the twenty four hours U represented by a piece of puro charcoal weighing eight ounces. The quantity of water given oil' from the lungs in tho sumo timo varies very much, but on tho avcrago it may bo taken a a littlo uioro than half a pint, or about uluo ouncjs. It may fall below this, or increase to doub le or troble tho quantity. Home and Health. t3f Pigs havo somo excellent traits of character. If ono chances to wallow a littlo doeper in some miro hole than his fellows, and so carries off and comes in pos session of more of I ho earth than his breth ren, ho nover assumes an extra Importance on that account ; neither aro his brethren stupid enough to worship him for it. Their only question seems to be. Is bo still a hog? If ho Is, they tioitt him as such. "And whon a hog ha no merits of hU own ho nover put ou aristouratio airs, nor claims any particular respoet ou account of his family connection."
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