r i mam ljc imc0, Nero Bloomfieto, JtJa Tlie three folt almost as if they were con spirators and forgers themselves, m they deliberated over what could be done to c curo the parcel they believed so dangerous. Mm. Lock and the steward, influenced by a not unnatural curiosity, were extremely anxious to inspect the mysterious package; but Mrs. Ford, who In the event of discov ery, was tho one to fear the result, cared foi nothing so much as being assured it was forever concealed from sight. Let it bo what it would, all she desired was that, it should be removed from the top of her trunk, and lodged snfcly at tho bottom of the dock. While they were considering ways and means, a messenger arrived from tlio City of , the assistant stewardess sent t heir cabin-boy to inquiro for Mrs. Ford, and ask somo questions in tho way of duty. This was a favorable opportunity. Mrs. Ford sent offher keys by tho boy Albert, and requested Mr. Oreen the cabin steward, privately, to open her trunk, take tho par cel lying on tho top, and pitch it into tho river. In duo time, Albert brought back a message to say her orders bad been com plied with, and all was safe. Tho evening after Mrs. Ford's return to her usual employment, Mr. Green, the steward, came to her, and having ascer tained that thcro was no one elso present, produced the identical parcel which she had believed was safety stowed away in tho bed of tho river. " Oh, Mr. Green 1" cried she, in pertur bation, "why did you deceive me, and keep that dreadful thing?" "How do you know it is a dreadful thing?" replied he. "I am sure I don't; and I thought, before we threw it away, wo would just see what it was nil about. I will call Park, now, and we will just take a look before we mako it leap over. Wo can throw it away any time." To own tho truth, Mrs. Ford herself, al though perfectly convinced that the con tents were equally dangerous and wicked, and very much afraid of being involved in somo dreadful scrape, had yet so great a curiosity that sho was not altogether un willing to proceed to an investigation. 80 when Mr. Park joined them, they un fastened the cord and opened the package. "Hum, I thought so," said Mr. Green, as they unwrapped a copper plate for printing forged ten-dollar notes. "I don't understand what it is," said Mrs. Ford, as she contemplated it. Mr. Green explained, and added, that he hud understood that Seaton belonged to a regular gang, who were waiting for his ar rival, with this plate, to proceed over the boundary to Canada, where they intended to establish their headquarters, whence they could conveniently circulate those false notes. "And so that is tbe spool ho intended to make the villiau 1" said Mrs. Ford. "He was nearly making a very tangled skein of me, I sin sure. Let's toss it overboard." " Don't bo In a hurry," said Mr. Green. " Look here; this man is in prison now, nd they want to find evidence. If you produce this, you will convict bim at once if jou destroy it, you allow him, perhaps, to tco at large." ' Hut if I produce, it they will tuke me for an accomplice, and I may be lynched, or Lunged, or imprisoned for life," exclaim ed Mis. Ford. "No, no. I will run no risks of the sort. Who knows what trouble I might have 1" ''She would bo certainly detained here after we sail," said Mr. Park, "and so loose her situatiou, perhaps, or at any rate have a whole peck of trouble; and, being English, I think she might, likely enough. Lave some difficulty in establishing her perfect, innocence. I would throw it away, if I were sho." 80 the dangerous aiticle was tossed out of the window, and fell with a splash into the waters of the dock, where it 110 doubt repoRca in the mud at this day. Had Mr. Green's advice been followed, Mr. Peaton who, it had appeared, had a few other aliases for suitable occasions, would not have been discharged In one week as bo actually was, in default of evi dence, and set at liberty to begin some oth er fraudulent action. It was not till after his discharge that Mis. Ford ventured to put her foot ashoio so terribly was she alarmed, lest she should be, in kiuic way, involved in his guilt. But one evening, a few days before tho Cliy of was to start, she did venture into tho city under the escort of Mrs. Lock. To her gicat surprise, as they were walking up Hi oad way, they mot Mis. Seaton her self, who instead of trying to avoid her topped and spoke to her. There was not much cordiality on the part of the English woman; but Mrs. Beaton was perfectly coin posed and very friendly, and assured her that it had all come about just as she had expected it would. Her husband had been set at liberty, and was now quite well, and so waa Freddy, and she would be glad if the stewardess would come and tee them; . and would she bring that little parcel she left on lioaid the steamer? Mrs. Ford look ed her full Id the face, equally amazed at her audacity, and enraged at tho injury so nearly done to herself. ' V ' ' 1 " If you wish for that parcel," she re plied, aa soon aa she could, "you must look fprit at the bottom of the dock, '.'or you will find It in no box of mine." " ' 1 ! A dark rxpiession bad posted over Mrs. Beaton's faoe, as she answered: "Da you mean you threw it away, woman? How dared yon do so with my property?" " And how daied you give me your for geries and cheats to take care of, Mm. Seaton ? How dared you to try to bring mo into your scrapes ? I am not at all obliged to you, I can toll you, and don't ever wish to sail in the same boat with you again." " Hush I hush !" said Mrs. Beaton, fright ened at her language, and glancing at her companion. Don't talk of forgeries, pray; there's no occasion to be angry; you have lecn in no danger; you are quito mista ken." " I bavo been in danger, and I am not mistaken; and Mrs. Lock knows as well as I, what that parcel was. And wo throw it out into the dock, having no mind at all tobe concerned in your business. So you will never see it again." " And if you knew what it was, were you really such a fool as to throw it away? Why, you might, havo mado your fortune by ic. We would have given you any share of the profits you liked to namo, to get it back; and you have really lost such a chance 1" "I don't want any shares, either in your profits or your prisons. Mrs. Seaton," ex claimed tho stewardess, strong in indig nant and outraged honesty. "I should havo been far more likely to havo one than the other, and I should havo deserved It, besides, as much aa you." " Well, you aro a fool with your honesty," said Mrs. Seaton, with an impertinent laugh. " You have thrown away a chance you will not have again in a hurry, I can tell you. And so say'ng she walked away. Nor havo they ever met since. tW In a case of assault and battery, where a stone had been thrown by tho de fendant, tlio following clear and conclu sive cvidenco was drawn out of a Jer sey man: " Did you see tho defendant throw tho st one?" " I saw a stone, and it's pretty sure tho defendant tin owed it." " Was it a largo stono?" " I should say it wur a largish stono." " What was its sizo?" "I should say a sizable stone." " Can't you answer definitely how big it was?" " I should say it wur a Btono of some bigness." " Can you give tho jury some idea of tho stono ?" " Why, as near as I can recollect, it wur something of a stone." " Can't you compare it to some other ob ject?" " Why, if I wore to comparo it, so as to give some notion of the stone, I should say it was as largo as a lump of chalk." " But the distance how long was it ? " Well, I should say about the length of a piece of string." Answer Your Children's Questions. Education is erroneously supposed only to be had at schools. : The most ignorant children often have been constant in their attendance there, and there have beeu very intelligent ones who never saw the inside of a school-room. The child who always asks an explanation of terms or phrases it cannot understand, who is never willing to repeat, parrot-like, that which is incompre hensible, will far outstrip in "education," tbe ordinary Voutine scholar. " Educa tion" goes on with children at the fireside on the street at church at play every where. Do not refuso to answer their proper questions then. Do not check this natural intelligence for which book can never compensate, though you bestowed whole libraries. tW A minister in ono of the Brookfleld church gavo his son a liberal education, and he was duly examined for the position of principal of a high school and was rejected. His father was greatly excited on hearing tho news, and hastily taking his hat, he hastily rushed down street, and ran full tilt against one member of tho committee. " Whajt docs this mean?" ho cried. "Don't tho committee know that my sou can speak and write in four different languages?" "That may bo," replied tho committee, " but tho English is not 0110 of them. Wo examined him only in English I" tW A disconsolate editor out west, be moaning tho loss of a wife, had tho follow. Ing epistle engraved upon tho tombstone: "To tho memory of Tabitha, wife of Moses Skinner, Esq., gentlemanly editor of tho Trtmbone. Terms f 3 a year always in advance. A . kind mother and exem plary wife. OOloe over Coleman's grocery, up two flights of stairs. Knock hard. We shall miss thee, mother; wo shall miss thee. Job printing solicited." . . . tSf An Irish jockey once selling an old nag to a gentleman, frequently observed with emphatic earnestness that bo was an " honest" horse.' After the purchase the gentleman asked what he meant by an "honest" horse? " Why, sir," replied the seller, " whenever t rode him ho threaten, ed to throw me, and ho certainly never do-1 reived me." ' ' ' tSTIn Siberia, during the winter, milk is bought and sold In a frozen state, and can be carried fur a long period in simple bag. When required for use, the requisite quantity fa chopped off with a hatchet or sheath-knife, and thawed as needed. ' A Cunning Burglar. rilHE other evening a young man named JL Hugh Mitchell stole into tbe room of a- colored woman named Blanclmrd, living at the place of Mr. John Long, and pock eted a gold watch, a gold dollar, a bracelet and a breastpin. In attempting to mako his escape from the premises ho was caught by a colored man employed about tho place. About three years ago Mitchell .was known hero aa a notorious housebreaker, and, although ho was not over sixteen years of ago, he was quito successful in hi exploits, and practiced his profession in a manner that was novel and peculiar. Ho raised a pet coon, and so trained tho ani mal that whenever his master would put it down upon tho ground it would run imme diately into the nearest house. Mitchell would take tho coon about the street in his arms, ostensibly for tho purpose of showing it off, and when in front of a res idence that he wished to enter, ho would let tho coon down ; in an instant tho well trained animal would scamper off towards tho house, and its master would follow in pursuit. If there happened to be an open ing anywhere about tho building, tho coon was sura to find it and enter the bouse at once. Of courso the people of the house would allow the master to come In after his pot, and while the family and servants were lending a helping hand to effect tho cap ture of tho runaway, Mitchell would busy himself, with every opportunity, picking up littlo things hero nnd there in tho rooms into which they passed after tho slippery little beast. Mitchell kept up this smart littlo game quito successfully for somo time, but was finally caught, and sent to tho penitentiary for a term of three years. About a month ago he was pardoned out by Governor Les lie, after remaining in tho prison about 0110 year and a hnlf. As soon as ho was releas ed, young Mitchell returned to Louisville, it seems, to follow his old pursuits. He Is now only eighteen years of ago, and mado quite a genteel appearanco when brought to First street station last night. Doubt less this act will send him back to the pen itentiary, and perhaps when ho . returns again to the walks of honest men, he will havo leanied that honesty is the best poli cy. Louhtille Courier Journal. Ilia Question. We had somo comical times in our first Sunday school. The children could not understand how a Sunday school differed from any other; and the first Sunday they brought their slates, and wanted copies set, and to "do sums." There was one boy who was always ask ing questions; queer questions they were, too. . , . 1 I used to wish sometimes that I could tako tho top of his head off for a minute and look inside, to see what kind of a brain it was that thought of such things. One Sunday tho lesson was upon the Creation. He raised his hand to signify that ho want ed to ask a question. "Well what is it?" " Yer say dar was on'y one man den ?" " Yes there was only one man." " Dar warn't no oder man, no place, no whars?" , , "No; there was no other man on the earth." " Don, if dar wor on'y one man, an' dat ar mau want ter sell a cow, I jos' like ter know bow ho'a gwine to do it." A Determined Prlsouer. A Frenchman, a prisoner in Edinburg, having managed to escape during tho Na- poleotilc wars, took refuge in the powder magazine. When the authorities wished to seize him, they found him silting on a barrel with a lighted match, and threaten. ing to blow up tho town. The authorities reflected prudently, and the result of their deliberations was that it would bo better to starve the Frenchman out. But they reck oned without their prisoner, who lilted good cheer.nnd was determined to livo well. In consequents he called out that ho would blow tho town to pieces if bo did not get three meals a day he would write out tho bill of tare. Sawney succumbed, and the demands of the prisoner went on increas ing. Sometimes ho had a scorenado under his window; then a review of the garrison; afterwuids a shsm fight in wliisli tho troops representing tho French army boats the Highlanders. At last ho exacted that every Sabbath morning, beforo breakfast, tho lord provost, in full uniform, should make his appearance, nnd rend him an ad dress. This lasted until tho victorious army of the Allies entered the city of Paris. ; tW Near Hartford reside two old maids( who had lived alone some years, under a vow of celibacy, all that time, milking one eow. When both of them fell sick, it was found that the brute would not submit to bo milked, as she evidently construed the act into a roblrery of , her mistresses; for there waa no way of getting her to oompre bend that they ( wer in the house, sick. At last stratagem, was resorted to. A young man in the neighborhood dressed In the clothes of one of V9 sisters, and went out te milk. He got along well enough till the wind blew off his bonnet when the cow discovered the nhfat and kicked, both him and the milk over, ,, ,, . ., SUITS A? READING. Kitting up for Her Boy. Hero and there throughout the village a few lights flicker liko palo stars through the darkness. Ono shines from the attio window, where a youthful aspirant for literary honors labors, wasting the mid night oil and the elixir of his lifo In toil, useless it may be, save as patience and industry are gained, and give him a hold upon external happiness. Another gleams with a ghastly light fiom a chamber into which death is entering ami lifo doparting. One light shines through a low cottage window, from which tho curtains are push ed partially aside, showing a mother's face, patient nnd sweet, but careworn and anx ious. The eyes, gazing through the night, are faded and sunken, but lighted with such love as steals only into tho eyes oftruoand saintly mothers, who watch over and pray for their children; who hedge them in from tho world's temptations, and make of them uoblo men, and true and loving women. It is nearly mid-night, and the faded eyes are strained to the utmost to catch the far-off sight of somo one com ing down tho street. . The mother's listen ing ear loses no sound, however slight that breaks upon tho stillness . that roigns around. No form seen, no quick step heard, she drops tho curtain slowly and goes back to the table, where an open book Is lv"ing and half-knit sock. The cat jumps up in tho chair, and yawns and shakes herself, and gradually sinks down again intoreposo. No one disputes her possession of the easy chair. Up and down the little room the mother walks, trying to knit, but vainly;- sho can only think of her son, and wonder and imagino what is keeping him. Her mind pictures the worst, and her heart sinks lower and lower. Could tho thought less boy know but one-half the anguish ho is causing, he would hasten at once to dis pel it with his presence. Sho trembles now as she listens, fer an uncertain step is hoard a sound of coarse laughter and drunken ribaldry; her heart stands still, and she grows cold with ap. prehension. Tho sound passes and dies away iu tho distance. Thank heaven it is not he, and a glow cwmos over her, and once more her heart Iieats quickly. Only a moment, for the clock on the mantel shows on its pallid face that it is almost midnight. Again tho curtain is drawn aside, and again the anxious, loving eyes peer into the darkness. Hark 1 a sound of footsteps coming nearer and nearer; a shadowy form, advancing, shows moro and more distinct; a cheery whistle; a brisk, light step up tho pathway; and throwing wido open of the door, and the truant boy finds himself in his mother's arms, welcomed and wept over. Ho chafes at the gcntlo discipline; ho doesn't like to bo led by apron-strings; but he meets his mother's gentle, questioning gaze with one honest and manly, and makes a half un willing promise not to be so late again. And he keeps his promise, and in after years thanks heaven again and again that he bad a mother who watched over him, and prayed for him. He knows better than she, now, the good that waa done by her sitting up for ber boy. The Lobster. When a lobster is thrown 011 the shore by the waves of the sea, he makes no ex ertion to regain his lost position, hut lies and waits for another wave to come and carry bim back again. But it scarcely ever cornea and he stays and dies whore thrown while a little exertion would have restored him to all he had lost. So It is with many people; they push boldly out on the ocean of life, with bright and happy anticipations of success. Storms of adversity come and suddenly they find themselves thrown back on the shoro, surrounded by the wreck of former hopes. Instead of using tho energy Ood has given them, they quietly accept their destiny, when fortunately tho return wave brings them bnck again without any exertion. Young man; don't bo liko a lobster; hut if troubles come, meet them bravely. If you are shipwrecked on your first attempt to launch your boat, and thrown back 011 tho shore of adversity, ex ert yourself to get alloatagain.and probably you w ill succeed, whiloifyou, wait for tho waves to come and bear you away without exertion on your part, you will, liko the lobster, liu nnd wait in vain. ' Therefore we say nguin " dont be like tho lobster." Keep 011 Praying. "Do you think." I asked, "that t,he Lord will let me see. in this life, the lv. tion of the souls for whom I pray.',' " I cannot say as to that. , When I was a child in the Sabbath , School in the old country," she continued, "my teacher used to say, " I have prayed too much niy Class for one of tlujm to be lost." was a thoughtless airl'st that. 1 1 inn. linri for I member wondering at it, and thinking it a yury self-confident remark she ' was 10 sure. "I shall have them all," she would say. "I shall say to Christ, at the Judg ment, Here am I and the Class thou hast given mo." , " And were they all converted ?' I asked. ..' "Ym. film dlil not tlva in uw It- l.nt m ,.( 'eyes havo seen it the fast of the sixteen Feathered Into the fold.'' ' " '' ' New Advertisement. THUS CAUSE AND CUIIK OF CONHUMPTION1 riHE primary cause of Consumption is de I raagement of the dleestlva arirnna. This derangement produces deficient nutrition and assimilation. By assimilation. I menu that process by which the nutriment of the food Is converted Into blood, and thence into t lie .oltdt of tbe body. Persons with dlgestlou ilius lm- paired, Having tbe slightest predisposition to pulmonary disease, or if tbey take cold, will bo very liable to have Consumption of the Lungs In some of its forms 1 and 1 hold that it will b Impossible to cure any case of Consumption without first restoring a good digcttiou and healthy assimilation. Tbe very first thing t be done Is to cleanse the stomach and buwels from all diseased mucus and slime, which Is clogging these organs so that tbey cuumil per forin their functions, and then rouse up uud restore the liver to a healthy action. For tuis purpose tbe surest and best remedy Is gcuenck'S Mandrake Pills. These Pills c leu 11 the .torn ach and bowels of all the dead and uioihld slime that Is causing disease and deeuy lit lb whole system. Tbey will clear ont the liver of all diseased bile tlmt has accumulated there, and rouse it up to a new and healthy nctiou, by which natural aud healthy bile Is secreted. The stomach, bowels, and liver ure thus cleansed by tbe nse of Sihenek's Mandrake Fills ; but there remulus in the stomach un el cess of acid, the organ is torpid aud the appe tite poor. In tha bowels the luc teals are weak and requiring strength and support. It Is In a condition Ilk this that Scbcack's Seaweed Tonic preves to be the most valuable remedy ever discovered. It is alkaline, and Its us will neutralize all excess of acid, making the stomach sweet and fresh 1 it will give perma nent tone to this lm porta nt organ, and create a good, hearty appetite, and prepare the eyBtem for the first process of good digestion, and, ul tlmatcly make good, healthy, living blood After this preparatory treatment, whut reinaiut to cure most case of Consumption is the free and perepToreing nse of Scaeuk's Pulmonic Syrup. The Pulmonic Syrup nourishes tbe system, purines the blood, and is readily ab sorbed into the circulation, and theuee distrib uted to the diseased lungs. There It ripens all morbid mutters, whether in the form of absces ses or tubercles, and then assists Nature to ex pel all the diseased mutter, in tbe form of tree expectoration, when ouco it ripens. It Is thes by the great healing and porytying properties of Scbenk's Pulmonic Syrup, that nil ulcers and cavities are healed up sound, and my pa tient is cured. The essential thing to bo done In curing Con sumption is to get up a good uppelltu uud a good digestion, so that the body will grow in flesh aud get strong, if a person has diseased lungs a cavity or abscess there rhu cavity cannot heal, the mutter cannot ripen so long us the system is below jir. What Is necessary te cure Is a new order of things a good uppe tite, a good nutrition, tbe body to grow In llea und get l'ut then Nature is helped, the cavities will heal, the matter will ripeu und be thrown oil In large qualities, und the person will regain health and sturcngth. This is the true and on. )y plan to cure Consumption, uud if a puroos Is not entirely destroyed, or even if one lung Is entirely gone. If there is enough vitality left is the other to heal up. there Is hope. I have seen many persons cured with euly one sound lung, live und enjoy life to a good oldage.i Thl- is whut Scheuck's Medieiues will do to cure Consumption, 'i'bey will cleua out the stomach, sweeten uud strengthen It, get up a good digestion, and gtte Nature the sys tem ot all tbe discuses sho needs to dearth system of all the dlseuee thut Is lu the lungs, whatever the form may be. - It is Important that while using Schenck'e Medicines, cure should be exorcised not to tuk cold 1 keepin-doors In cold and dump weather t avoid night air, uud tuke out-door exercise only lu a genial and warm suusliluo. I wish It distinctly understood thet when recommend u patient to be careful lu regard to taking cold, while usiug my Medicines, i do se for a special reason. A man who has but par tially recovered from tbe effects of a bad cold 1 far more Hub e to a relapse than ono who bus been entirely cured j uud it is precisely the same In regard to Consumption. So long us tbe lungs ure in t perfectly beuled, Just so long is there imminent danger of a full return of the disease. Ileuc it Is that I so strenuously caution pul monary patients against exposing themselves toun atmosphere that Is not geulul and pleas ant. Continued Consumptives' lungs are muss of sores, which the least change of at mosphere will lutlame. The grand secret of uiy success with my Medieiues cousists in uiy abil ity tosnhdue Inflammation Instead of provok ing It, us many of the faculty do. Au luflurued lung can 11 nt, wltb safety to the patient, be ex posed to the biting blasts of Winter or the chill lug wlndsof Spring or Autumn. It should b carefully shielded from all Irritating lutluuces. The utmost caution should be observed in this particular, 11s without It a cure under almost, any circumstances I an impossibility. The person should be kept on wholesome aud nutritious diet, and all the Medieiues continued until the body has restored to it tb natural quantity of fiesh and strength. I was myself cured by this treatment of th worst kind of Consumption, and have lived to get fut uud hearty these many years, with one lung mostly gone. I have cured thousands since, und very many have been cured by this treatment whom 1 have never seen. About the First of October 1 expert to take possession of my new building, at the Ninth east Corner or Sixth and Arch Streets, wheie I shall be pleased to give advice to ull who may require It. Full directions accompany all my Remedies, so that a person in uuy pint or the world can be readily turcd by u strict obsurviineo of lb ame. J, II. 8CUENCK, M. U., Philadelphia. "-.fOIIN'iON, IIOI.LOWAr & COWllKN, tjl Arch Street, Philadelphia. Wliuleiiile Agents. 6211 X.L.nEVOLVEUH! The New X 1. Itevolver. No. 1 22-100 Cal., No. 22 leocal., short, No. limcal., lun-r. 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