ljc ntcs, New Bloomfitl&v JIo;
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Bloomfield Academy!
An English and Classical School
FOR
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
Young Men Prepared For College.'.
A Normal Shmil anil a Shml of Art.
FALL TERM COMMENCES
On Monday, the Ctu of November, 1871.
48 the above school ha recently been re-organ-.
Ized. students can enter anv time,
mf. WM. H. DILL, a graduate ot Kutgor's Col
fcge, N. J.. Principal.
Miss ANNA E. AUGSPUKOEll, a graduate ol
Bst'mr Institute, Columbus, Ohio, teacher of Mu
to. Piloting. Drawing, French and Gorman.
Ever' facility for the training of the youth tit both
sexi s 1 1 all that constitutes a liberal and thorough,
ducutl n.
The Collegiate Department
rnbraces all the higher branches. Including the
atln and tireek Languages, engineering, Practl
h) Hurveying, Literature, Natural Science and ad
vanced nlat hematics.
Vacations: July and August, and one week at
Christmas.
Terms: For Boarding, Furnished Room, Wash-
tig. Tuition In Latin, Ureek, Kuglish lirniieliesand
lalhcmatics, for the scholastic year, 81S0.
tl vacations. tMJO.00.
The Boarding Department Is at the Institution,
nder the supervision of Willam Grler, Esq., by
whom good and substantial board will bo fur
wished: and the pupils will bo under the strict care
J the Principal. Address
W. II. DILL, A. M. Principal,
or WILLIAM (JKILK.
4t 1 New Bloomtleld, Terry county, Pa.
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JUST published, a new edition of Dr. CULVEK
WELL 8 CKLKllKAThD KKHAY on theiuri
KaL ciikc of certain weaknesses, the etiecta of Er
ror and Abuses in early life.
The celebrated author, In this admirable essay
lrai ly demonstrates from a thirty years' success
ful practice, that the alarming consequences of
such errors and abuses may be radically cured
without the dangerous use of Internal inedioljie
r the application of the knife; pointing wit a
anode of cure at once simple, certain. and effectual,
by means of which every sulterer, no matter what
kls condition may be, may cure hiuutelt cheaply,
privately, and radically.
4er Tula Lecture should be In the hand of every
youth and every man Iu the land.
hent, under aeal, In plain envelope, to any ad
dress, post-paid, on receipt ol !& cesta, or two
post-stamps.
Also, Dr. Culverwell'i " Marriage Guide," price
36 rents.
Addresi the Publishers:
CHAM. J. C. KLINB&CO.,
AS.lyP.l 127 Bowery, New Yoik.P. O. Boi, i.M.
PEItltY HOUSE,
New BlotmOeld, Fe
THE subsorlber having purchased the property
ob the -sorner ot Maine and Carlisle it i eels,
lloalt the Court House, Invite all hie friend
and former customers to give him call as he I
eWtermluad to turnUli Bret class accommodation.
TUOMAHJSVTVH,
lit Proprietor.
DR. FRANKLIN'S WIFE.
BY All El PABTOR.
ON a fine Sunday morning in October,
1728, Deborah Read, a beautiful and
blooming las of eighteen, stood at the door
of her fatber'f houso in Market streot, Phil
adelphia. Tho city was forty-threo year of ago,
and it contained a population of seven
thousand, vltany trees of the original for
est still sttji upon its site;, tho houses
were built at some distance apart, with
gardens between them, as yet the streets
were unpaved. It is a large tranquil
Quaker village, surrounded by the prime
val wilderness, with groifps of Indians fre
quently to he seen In the Sftreeta, and such
game as wolves, bears, wild turkey and
deer to bo shot within four miles of the
town.
As the young lady stood at tho door of
her home it was about church timo in the
morning sho saw in a crowd of church
going people a strange figure that both
amused and surprised her. It was a stout
lad of seventeen, not ill-looking but dressed
in tho very extreme of Khabbiness. He woro
tho working-clothes of an ordinary appren
tice, and these by exposuro to the rain and
wear and tear op travel, had become dirty
and dilapidated. The pockets of his coat
wero stuffed out with shirts and stockings,
and undor each arm ho luid a largo roll
while eating a third. Sho gazed at him
as long as sho could see li i in, wondering
and laughing at his ridiculous appearance.
If she had any thoughts upon tho subject,
sho probably set him down as a runaway
apprentice, for such indeed ho was, ono
Benjamin Franklin, who had made his way
from Boston by sloop, by barge and on foot,
to escapo tho tyranny of his brother, to
whom ho had been apprenticed.
A few days passed. Miss Read learned
from her father that a young man was
coming to board with them, a printer, who
worked in ono of tho two printing houses
of the town. What was her surprise when
the young man arrived, nicely dressed,
with clean linen, and very neat in his per
son, to rccognixo tho forlorn and shabby
youth who had caught hor eyo on that Sun
day morning. Ills chest had arrived by
sea, and thus ho was nblo to present him
self nt his new nbode in a becoming cos
tume. TIio young man proved highly
agreeable to tlio family. lie was full of in
telligence, amiability nntl good luamor
ono of those young fellows who make
friends wherever they go, because they aro
themselves obliging and friendly.
A year glided rapidly by, during which
the father of tho young lady died, and was
buried in Christ Church burying ground,
Philadelphia, where his grave stone may
be still seen and read. His wife, a vigor
ous and prudent woman, carried on the
house as usual, so that it still furnished a
homo to tho young printer. His fortunes
had brightened during the year. The
Governor of the province, who had acciden
tally become acquainted witli his talents,
proposed to set him up in business as a
printer, and was going to send him to Lon
don to buy types, a printing press, nud
whatever is necessary for tlm business of a
printer. With this prospect before him,
tho young man was emboldened to speak
to Mrs. Read on a momentous subject. Ho
had fallen in lovo with her beautiful daugh
ter, no told her this mighty secret, nud of
his intended voyngo to London, and of the
governor's project of establishing him in
business. Finally, ho asked her daughter's
hand iu marriage.
Mrs. Read was far from disapproving tho
match, but, like a prudent mother ns ho
was, she callod tho young man's attention
to the fact that neither he nor her daughter
were yet nineteen, nnd that it would be
most unwise for them to marry just as sho
was going upon a long voyage, and aViut to
cngago iu a new business which might not
prove profitable. How much better to
wait until he was safe home again, nnd the
business was well established. There was
no denying! this, nud he was obliged to
submit. Having thus arranged the mattor
with the mother, ho spoke to the daughter
who confessed With her ongue what her
eyes had oftoi avowed, that she loved him;
and she promised to marry him on his re
turn. He set sail and reached Loudon in due
time. There he discovered that the gover
nor had deceived aud wronged him most
cruelly. Instead of letters of credit ho had
given him mere letters Ajf Introduction,
which wero absolutely worthless. The
consequence was that this young printer of
nineteen found himself in London with ten
pounds in his pocket and not a friend in
Europe who could be of the slightest help
to him. To complete his misfortunes one
of his Philadelphia friends, who hod cross
ed the Atlantic with him, and had come to
London expecting to live by literature,
could obtain no employment, and had no
resource but Franklin's purse. The printer
was not long in getting work at his trade;
b)it as there was two to be supported, the
ten ypunds rapidly melted away.and Frank
lin saw no prospect even of bis being able
to get back to Philadelphia at all still less
of appearing there as a master printer, i
t In these circumstances he should have
written to Mis Read a plain statement of
the case, and asked her to wait for him, or
release him from the engagement. Either
he bad not the courage to do this, or else,
absorbed by the wonders and pleasures of
the town, he had become indifferent to her.
lie merely wrote her a short note, announoe
ing his safe arrival in London, and telling
hor he was not likely to return soon. This
was one of the great errors of his life, which
he said, he could wish to correct if ho were
to live it over again.
Month after month passed, and Deborah
Read, anxious and forlorn, heaid no more
from her faithless lover. A newsuitorpie
sented himself, Rogers by name, who car
ried on the trade of a potter. He was an
excellent hand at the business, and for this
reason Mrs. Read favored his suit. Other
relations urged her to marry him, and at
last she gavfl her consent, and the mar
riago was celebrated. Boon tho dreadful
rumor was noised abroad in Philadelphia
that Rogers, the potter, had another wife I
Such strong reasons appeared for crediting
this report, that Deborah Read, who had
lived unhappy with him, returned to hor
mother and resumed her niaidon name, a
sorrowful and hopeless woman, ifer most
sanguine friends could not have forseon for
her a happy and honorable future Soon
after, Rogers, who owed money in all di
rections fled from his creditors to tho West
Indies, whence came soon after a report of
his death.
Franklin remained in London for about
two years, at the end of which ho returned
as a clerk to a Philadelphia merchant;,
whom ho had met by chance in London.
Upon his arrival ho renewed his intimacy
with Mrs. Road and her daughter, and
doubtless explained his inconsistency as
best ho could. Ho lamented Deborah
Read's unhappy condition; and, however
he tnny havo excused his behavior, ho felt
that she owed the ruin of her life to his
own "giddiness and inconstancy." The
mother, however, insisted that it was sho
who was most in fault, becauso she had
urged on the unhappy marriago, oven
against her (laughter's inclination. Sho
still consulted Franklin about her affairs,
and they wero all excellent friends.
And so passed three or four years, dur
ing which Franklin, through his own in
dustry and good conduct, became a master
pi inter and proprietor of a newspaper,
with tho prospect of founding an extensive
business. Needing capital, ho tried to in
crease his store by marriage, and when
that scheme failed, he turned his thoughts
to his first lovo, poor Deborah Read. Her
runaway potter was probably dead, but ho
might not be; and she seemed forever cut
off fiom marriage by the fact that her sec
ond husband would be responsiblo for tho
debts of hor first. Such was tho law of tho
period.
Franklin, pitying her forlorn condition,
always reproaching himself as tho cause of
her woe, and not less fond of hor than be
fore, at last proposed that they should risk
a marriage. Nor was tho match so un
uneqtial as it seemed, for, bachelor as he
was, he had a son a few months old upon
his bunds, which was set of against the
chances of Rogers renppoaring. In 1730,
soven years alter Miss Read had seen Frank
lin walking up Market street, eating his
roll, they wero married. Rogers as it turn
ed out, was really dead; nor did any of his
creditors apply to Franklin for payment.
Tho child was taken home and reared as
though it had been born to them in wed
lock, lie was well educated and afterwards
became governor of Now Jersey.
Tho marriago was eminently succcsful in
every respect. One of Franklin's maxims
in Poor Richard's Almanao was this: "A
man must ask his wife to thrive." Noth
ing more truo. In vain shall a young man,
without much capital, toil and deny himself,
if ho has a wife who squanders his gains,
and takes no interest in his career. Mrs.
Franklin was ono of the most industrious
arcful and friendly of women. Besides at
tending hor husbands litllo shop, sho
bought rags, stitched pamphlets, folded
newspapers, tenderly nurtured his child,
and kept hci husband from being extravi
gant. He was by no means of an economi
cal disposition. lie was generous to a fault,
and I am sure was much indebted to his
wife for the rapidity with which he mado
his fortuno. In the early years of their
married life he could sometimes boast and
ho did boast of it that he was clothed
from head to foot in garments which his
wife had first woven and then made.
It seems, howevor, that she was not
averse to a reasonable degree of comfort
and display. Franklin narrates thai for a
long time after his marriage he had noth
ing for breakfast but bread and milk, and
he used to cat it out of a twopenny earthen
bowl with a pewter spoon.
"But," he continued, "mark how lux
ury will enter families, and make a. pro
gress in spite of principles. Being called
ono morning to break fast, I found it in a
china bowl with a spoon of silver. They
had been bought for me without my knowl
edge by my wife, and bad cost her tho en
ormous sum of three and twenty shillings;
for which she had no other excuse to make
but that she thought her husband dsserved
a silver spoon and ft china bowl as well as
any of his neighbors."
We have another pleasing glimpse of
Mrs. Franklin iu the early years of her
married life, in an advertisement pub
lished in Franklin's paper, the "Pennsyl
vania Gazette." Franklin advertised every
thing and this is one of his attempts in
that way: ., , ,
"Taken out of a pew in the church,
some months since, a common prayer book,
bound lured gilt, and letters D. F. (De
borah Franklin) on each cover. The person
who took it is desired to open it and read
the Eighth Commandment, and afterwards
return it into the same pew again; upon
which no further notice will be taken."
The first groat sorrow of her married
life was the death of their first child a most
beautiful and intelligent boy, four years of
age. Bo engaging was he, and so rooted
in the hearts of his patents, that Franklin
declared, thirty-six years after, he could
never think of him even without a sigh.
When the reader visits tho gravo of Frank
lin in Christ Church burying ground in
Philadelphia he will observe near it a little
stone, not two feet high, which Franklin
placed over the grave of this boy He add
ed to the usual inscription these words,
"The delight of all who knew him." Their
only other child, Barah, grew to woman
hood, inheriting and transmitting her
mother's beauty.
, During the last fifteen years of their
married life, Franklin spent most of his
time in England, as agent for tho colonics.
Such was his wife's droad of tho ocean, that
she nover could be persuaded to accompany
him or visit him. During his absence she
took caro of all his ufl'airs, better in some
respects, than ho could have done it him
self. By almost every ship sho sent him Amer
ican nuts, apples, and other products, and
he sent her in return all Borts of rare and
beautiful things in fabric and household
furniture, such as sets of china, articles of
silver ware, table cloths, tea trays, blank
ets, silk for dresses, and any curious house
hold implement which ho thought might
bo useful. On ono occasion ho sent her a
large handsome beer jug.
"I fell in love with it," ho told her, "at
first sight, for I thought that it looked like
a fat jolly dame, clean and tidy, with a neat
blue calico gown on, good natural and
lovely, and put me in mind of somebody."
To make tho jug more welcome, he filled
it with pretty little coffee cups, packed
in salt.
During tho Stamp Act tiouhles of 1705,
when the false report reached Philadelphia
that her husband had favored tho odious
measure, the mob threatened to sack his
houso.
On this occasion she proved herself
worthy to bo the wife of Pennsylvania's
representative. Governor Franklin en
treated her to take refugo in his own house
at Burlington, and all her friends urged her
to go.
For nino days, sho says, people kept
persuading her to leave her house. At
length sho let hor daughter go to Burling
ton; but for herself, she would not budge.
"Iam sure," said she, "that my bus
band has dono nothing to hurt anybody,
nor havo I given offence to any person at
all, nor will I bo mado uneasy by anybody.
I will not stir.uor show tho least uneasiness.
But if anybody comes to disturb me, 1 will
show a proper resentment."
And, indeed, she armed and fortified hor
house, stationing her brother und cousiu
below with guns and aniuiiilion,uud mount
ing guard up stabs herself, prepared to
defend her abode. Tho storm blew over,
and very soon the truth respecting her hus
band's conduct was known.
For forty-four years Benjamin Franklin
and Deborah Read were united in mar
riage. Sho lived to see her husband the most
honored of Americans on both continents,
and sho lived also toseo her daughter suita
bly married to a merchant of Philadelphia,
Richard Bacho. Her last years wero
greatly cheered by her beautiful grand
children. Sho had tho happiness of escaping the
anxieties and terrors of the Revolutionary
War. Shu died iu December 1774, with
only one regret, that sho could not live to
see Iter husband unco again. Indeed, she
had been fur ten years longing and pining
for his retuixjbut the pressing business of
tho colonies still detained him, aud sho
died at last when ho was making his prepar
ations for his homeward voyage. Her
body was borne to tho grave by somo of
Franklin's oldest friends, men who had
known them wheu forty-four years before,
thoy had begun housekeeping, and ato
their breakfast of bread and milk.
There were scarcely any women at that
period who wore what wo now call educa
ted, and tho letters of Mrs. Franklin show
that sho was not gifted in tho use of tho
pen.
But she was a faithful and affectionate
wife, a friend and help-meet to her husband,
who was enubled to devoto himself to the
public service because lie ' had at homo a
wifo competent and willing to take charge
of his affairs iu his absence.
t3TA captain, who had a sound sleeping
mate, caught an Irish boy in the middle
of a watch frying some pork aud eggs he
had stolon from the ship's stores, to whom
the captain called out, " You lubber, you,
I'll have none of that." "Faith, captain,
I've none for ye," replied the lad.
A Dutih Composition.
A DUTCH BOY being required to
write a piece about somo animal,
thought he would write about a Jackass,
and therefore contributed the following :
TE CIIACK-ASS.
Tis is won uf to bostest kints of pcoiidts.
Tay Isli more lieke ash a bores than mosdt
awl of te utter nunymuls. Te Zcpray int
Tan RycoB manasherry Ish of to same proed,
pud him ish a forin relayshin toe thad. ' Te .
Chack-Ass ish mora schmall ash to Hores
dus. ; Id gau nud-pull him plindt, uus tay
can llf more ash half te feodins ! ' Him ish
galled a peasdt of puiden. Tay ish ferry
payshindt, and he kiegs awfool fens id
wandts too. Him is pooty stuppornt, pud
it will go alono ride goot veil those, dake
some nowshins. Him is ferry pardicklcr
apoud for vat it cads, unt tay liges to
gleansed kint uf vattcr, unt gan ead tern
stiggor tbissels virsdt rado. Tcso Chack
Ass ish not furry goot for butcher meet ;
him ish duo tuff ; (to Mules, widtch ish his
8iin-inter-lawt ish moore goodor too eadin.)
It ish god in a scantlus loudt woyce, tint
ven him hollers id ish vad tay gaul prayin
unt Id ish a newsens. Him ish a scribte
wrail annytnuls, but ish offen put int to
Piplo amuno te utter baytrcyarcks unt
broffits, unt id ish to ownly peasdt on
reccort who ish offer nowin to speagk oud
int plane Inglecsh, nsh was to gaso mit
Paylam, ash you gan reat int te Piplo. I
haf ncil'cr hind id ntwaused pefour acaiu ;
pud I pelecf, in gonsideiashin for peine nl
loud to brivylcdgo uf talckin thad limo,tay
haf offer sense had a shpell pud upon his
woyce, so for thad veu he hollers id ish
win so as to grackt vissel uf a sic sbteain
poto. If you dago nodis, to Cbaok-Ass is
a tilosofer'. Id peas awl to dimes stutty ink
unt thiiickink, unt tay nod coes sportiuk
round to mettow lieko tis utter caddies.
Him lifs dill a crate aitch, unttose hitesish
goot vor ledder.
On agount uf tare tnudtch stronck, unt
tad him ish hardt to kill, tay (needs lain
mit to Hores, wad mages tout Mtilosh, wad
ish not so stuppornt toe worck. Id ish you
shall wie mankiiidts too say for thad wen
one feller ish a fool, thad him ish a Cliack
Ass; yud tcso Chack-Ass was god more
cents don a goot menny sinardt mens, ownly
teso fellers tomlt noo id ; tad ish awl to tif
ferens. Now I gan rido nioro apoud tis thicks,
pud id ish dun blenty ennuf.
A Photograph Romance.
nnilE days of romanco are not altogether
JL passed away, says a New York lotter
to tho Boston Times; if a story that I heard
yesterday is true. It was a case of love at
first sight, or rather of love before the
sight. A gentleman, who has an abundance
of that agreeable article known as money,
which he has no inclination to spend in a
wild life, had mado up his mind that he
wanted to marry. Ho was acquainted with
no lady to whom he wished to propose, and
bo ho waited for tho desired creature to
come around, as a great many people tell us
she is euro to do some day or other.
Happening ono afternoon in a photograph
gallery, he saw a package of cartes do visite
lying on tho counter, where they had been
temporarily placed. Ho gazed intently at
tho uppermost picture pacukc, mid conclu
ded that it was just the picture that suited
him.
"May I ask," ho said to the attendant
behind tho counter, "tho name ef that
lady?"
" It would be against our rules to give
her iiamo," was the reply. " But, even it
was not so, I could tell you nothing more
than tho name, as I know nothing about
her, not even her residence. She came
here last week and ordered a dozen pho
tographs which are promised for to-morrow."
Tho stranger returned thanks for the in
formation and walked out. But he watched
the door of that establishment all the after
noon, and every time a lady approached he
eyed her to see if she was tho original of
tho picture. He was at his post next day,
and the next, and on the third afternoon
he was rewarded by seeing her. Ho follow
ed hor ns she went away, and, aftor a wear
isome tramp among dry goods stores and
millinery establishments, he tracked her
homo.
Then he wont to work to ascertain who
she was, aud found that her pa-'
rents wore entirely reputable people, in
moderate circumstances, and that the char
acter of the lady herself was above the
slightest reproach. Then he sought the
tho father, stated his object, gave the most
undoubted references and did not call again
till the old gentleman lind examined them.
Ho was introduced, and you can easily
guess the rest. No cards.
Iff Two women in Detroit quarreled,
and oue ot them of an original turn of
mind, got a parrot and taught Polly to say,
" you thief, " whenever her enemy passed
by. Not to be outdone, the other fair
belligerent also got a Polly, whom she
taught to scream "you dye your bair,"
whenever the enemy came in sight. Finally,
tho judiciary was appoaled to, and both
the parrot gun were spiked.