Ije tmc0, Nat) Bloomficl Ja. For Father's Honor. 00 MUCH GONE 1 I might have known how it would be 1" wild Mr. Sterling, looking up from a morning paper, with a most unpleasant expression on his face. " What has gone ?" nsked the wife. "My money is gone?" answered Mr. Sterling. '' - . ' V "That money I was foolish enough to lend Mr. Granger." "Why do you say that?" ' He's dead," replied Mr. Sterling, cold- Poad !" "The Giro's voice was" full of surprise and pain. Sorrow overshadowed her face. "Yes, gone, and my money with him. Hero's notice of his death. I was sure 'whon I saw him go away that he'd never ' come back except in his coflin. Why will doctors send theirpnticnts away from homo todie!" "Poor Mrs. Granger I Poor little or phans;" sighed Mrs. Sterling. " What will they do?" "As well without him as with him," was tho unfeeling answer of her husband, who was only thinking of the throe hundred dollars he had been persuaded to loan the sick clergyman, in order that he might go South during the winter. ' " He's been more of a burden than a support to them theso two years." ; . "Oh, Harvey 1 How can you speak so?" remonstrated Mrs. Sterling. "A kinder man in his family was never seen. Poor Mrs. Granger I She will be heartbroken." "Kindness is cheap and is easily dis pensed," coldly replied Mr. Sterling. He would have been of more uso to his family if he had fed and clothed them better. I reckon they pan do without him. If I had three hundred dollars, I wouldn't " But he checked for shame not for feel ings tho almost brutal words his heart scut up to his tongue. Not many hundred yards away from Mi-. Stcrliag's handsome rosidenco stood a small plain cottage, with a garden in front neatly laid out in box-boarded walks and filled with shrubberry. A honey-suckle, twined with a running rose bush, covered tho lat ticed portico, and looked in at the chamber windows giving beauty and sweetness. The hand of taste was seen everywhere not lavish, but discriminate taste. Two yoars before there was not a happier homo than this In all the pleasant town of C . Now the shadow of death was upon it. Poor Mrs. Granger ! Poor, little orphans ! Well might Mrs. Sterling pity them. While her mercenary husband was sighing over the loss of three hundred dollars, the young widow lay senseless with her two little chil dren weeping over her in childish terror. The news of death found her unprepared. Only a week before she bad received a letter from Mr. Granger, in which he talked hopefully of his recovery. "I am strong er," he said: " I have gained five pounds in flesh since I left home." Three days after writing this letter there came a sudden change of temperature; he took cold, which was followed by congestion of the lungs; and no medical skill was sufficient for the case, nis body was net sent home for in terment. When the husband and father Twent away two or three months before, his loved ones looked upon his face for the last time in this world. Love and honor make the heart strong. Mrs. Granger was a gentle trusting woman. She had leaned upon her husband very heavily; she had clung to him as a vine, Those who knew her best felt most anxious about her. "She cannot stand alone." But they were mistaken. As we have just said love and honor make the heart strong. Only a week after Mr. Sterling had road of the young minister's death, he re, reived a note from the widow. " My husband," she said, " was enablod to go South in hopes of regaining his health, .through your kindness. If he had lived, the money you loaned him would have been faithfully returned, for ho was a man of honor. Dying he left that honor in my keeping, and I will see that the debt is paid. But you will have to be a little pa tient with me." "All very fine," muttered Mr. Sterling, with a slight curling lip, " I've heard of such things before. They sound well. People will say of Mrs. Granger, "what a noble woman 1 what a fine sense of honor she has I" but I shall never see the three hundred dellars I was foolish enough to lend her husband." Very much to Mr. Sterling's surprise, and not a little to his ploasure, ho discover ed about three mouths afterwards that he was mistaken inhisestiinale of Mrs, Gran ger. The palo, sad, fragile little woman brought him tho sum of twenty-five dollars. He did not see the tears in her eyes as ho displayed her husband's note, with his dear familiar writing, and made thereon, with considerable formality, an endorsement of the sum paid. She would have given many drops of her heart's blood to have been able to clutch the documeut from Mr. Sterling's hand. It seemed like a blot on the dear lost one's memory. "Katie Granger is tho queerest little girl I ever know," said Flora Temple to her mother on the evening of the very day the first payment was made. Mr. Sterling heard the remark, and letting his eyes drop from the newspaper he was reading, turn ed his ears to listen. "I think her a very nico little girl," re plied the mother. "Sosho is nice," returned tho child, " but then she is so queor. Oh, she isn't like tho rest of the girls. Sho said the oddest thing to-day. I almost laughed out; but I'm glad I didn't. Three of us, Katie Lillie Bonfluld and I were walking round the square at recess timo, whon uncle Hi rani camo along,and taking out three bright ten cent pieces, ho said; "hero's a dimo for each of you girls' to buy sugar plums.' Lillio and I screamed out, and started away for the candy-shop "in an instant; but Katio stood still with her share of tho money in her hand. " Como along !" I cried. She didn't move, but looked strango and seri ous. "Aren't you going to buy sonio candy with it?" I asked. Then slio shook her head gravely and pnt tho dimo in her pocket, saying (I don't think sho meant mo to hear her words)" It's for father's hon or;" and leaving us, went back to tho school room. What did sho mean by that, mother? Oh, sho is so queer !" "Her mother is very poor, you know," replied Mrs. Sterling, laying up Katie's re mark to be pondered over. " Sho must bo strange," said Flora, "for she's worn tho same frock to Bchool for 'most throe months." Mr. Sterling, who did not let a single word of this conversation escape him, was far from feeling as comfortablo under the prospect of getting back the money ho had loaned Mr. Granger, as he had felt an hour before. He understood tho meaning of Ratio's remark, "It's for father's honor;" the truth flashed at onco through his mind. There was another period of three months, and then Mrs. Granger called again on Mr. Sterling and gave him twenty-five dollars more. Tho palo, thin face made a stronger impression upon him. It troubled him to lift tho money in her small fingcrs,in which the blue veins sliono through tho transpar ent skin, as sho counted It out. He wished sho had sent flic money instead of calling. It. was on his lips to remark, "Do not troublo or pinch yourself to pay faster than is con venient, Mrs. Granger," but cupidity whis pered that sho might tako advantage of his kindness so he kept silent. " No, dear, it's for father's honor. I cannot spend tho money." Mr. Sterling was passing a fruit shop, where two children were looking in at the window, when tho sentence struck upon his ears. " An applo won't cost but a penny, Ka tie; and I want one so badly," answered tho youngor of the two children, a littlo girl not five years of ago. "Come away, Maggie," said the other drawing her sister back from tho window. "Don't look at them any more don't think about them." " But I can't help thinking about them, Katio," pleaded tho child. It was more than Mr. Sterling could stand. Every want of his)wn children was supplied. Ho bought fruit by the barrel. And here was a little child pleading for an apple which cost only a cent; but tho pen ny must be saved to make good tho dead father's honor. Who held that honor in pledge? Who took the sum total of thoso pennies, saved in the self-denial of little children, and added them to his already brimming coffers ? A feeling of shame burst upon the check of Mr. Sterling. "Here little ones?" he called, as the two children went slowly away from tho fruit shop window. He was touched with tho sober look on their young faces as they turned at his invitation. "Como," repeated Mr. Sterling, shaking very kindly. The children then followed him into the shop, and he filled their aprons with apples and oranges. Their thankful eyes and happy faces were in his memory all day. This was his reward, and it was sweet. Three months more, and again Mr. Ster ling had a visit from the pale young widow. This time she had only twenty dollars. It was all she bad been ablo to save, she said; but she mado no excuse and uttered no complaint. Mr. Sterling took the money and counted it over in a hesitating way. The touch thereof was pleasant to his fin gers, for he loved the money. But the vis ion of sober child faces was before his eyes, and the sound of pleading child voices in his ears. Through over-taxing toil and the de nial of herself and little ones, tho poor widow had gathered this small sum, and was now paying it Into his hands, to make good the honorable contract of her dead husband. Ho hesitated, ruffling in a half absent way the edges of the littlo pile of bills that lay under his fingers. One thing was clear to him, he would novor tako anything more from tho widow, Tho balance of tho debt must bo forgiven. People would got to understand the wid ow's case, they would hear of self-denial and that of her children in order to pay the husband's and father's debt, in ordor to keep pure his honor; and they would ask, naturally, who was the exacting creditor? This though affected him unpleasantly. Slowly, as one in whose mind debate still went on, Mr. Sterling took from his desk a large pocket-book,and selected from one of the oopartmenU a uoteon whioh Mr. Grangor had now made three payments. For some moments he hnld it in bis bands looking at the face thereof, no saw writ ten in clear figures the sum of 300. Sovcn ty of this had been paid. If be gave up or destroyed tho slip of paper he would lose two hundred and thirty dollars. It was something of a trial for ono who loved money so well to como up squaroly to this issue. Something fell .In between his eyes and tho note of tho hand. Ho did not sec tho writing and. figures of tho obligation, but a sad, pleading little faco, and with tho vision of tills faco camo to his ears tho sen tence; "No, dear, it's for your father's honor." - Thedobate In Mr. Sterling's mind was over. Taking up a pen ho wroto across the face of Mr. Granger's note tho word "can celled," and handed it to tho widow. "Whatdocs this meau?" sho asked, looking bewildered. "It means said Mr. Sterling, "that I hold no obligation against your husband." Sorao moments went by ere Mrs. Granger's thoughts became clear enough to compre hend it all. Then sho replied, as sho reach ed back tho note: , "I thank you for you generous kindness, but ho left his honor in my keeping, and I must maintaiu it spotless." ' , " That you have already dono," answer ed Mr. Sterling, speaking through emotions that were now to him. " It's as white as snow." Then he thrust back upon her the twenty dollars she had just paid him, , " No, Mr. Sterling," tho widow said. "It shall be as I will I'? was tho response. "I would rathertouch fire than your money; every dollar would burn my conscience liko living coals. . " But tho last payment," urged the wid ow. " I shall feel bettor." " No, madam I Would you throw lire upon my conscience ? Your husband's hon or never had a stain. All men knew hira to be pure and upright. When God took him, Ho assumed his earthly debts, and did not leave upon you tho heavy burden of their payment. But ho left you another and most sacred obligation, which you havo overlooked in part." " What ?" asked tho widow, in an almost startled voice. " To minister to the wants of your chil dren, whom you have pinched and denied in their tender years, giving thoir meat to cancel an obligation which death paid. And you have made mo a party in the wrong to them. Ah, "Madam !" Mr. Ster ling's voice softened, "if we could all seo the right at the right time, and do right at tho right time, how much of wrong and suffering might be saved I I honor your true-hearted self-devotion, but I shall bo no party to its continuance. As it is, I am your debtor in the sum of fifty dollars, and will repay it in my way any timo." Under Providence this circumstauco was the means of breaking the hard crust of selfishness and cupidity which had formod around his heart. He was not only gener ous to tho widow iu after years, but a doer of many deeds of kindness and humanity to which he had been in other times a stran ger. Travelling Stones. Many of our readers have doubtloss beard of the famous travelling stones of Australia. Similar curiosities have recent ly been found iu Nevada, which are de sciibod as almost perfectly round, the ma jority of them as large as a walnut, and of an irony nature. When distributed about upon the floor, table or other level surface, within two or three feet of each other, they Immediately begin travelling toward a com mon center, and thore huddle up in a bunch, like a lot of eggs in a nest. A singlo stone removed to a distance of three and a half feet, upon being released at onco started off, with wonderful and somewhat comical celerity, to join its follows; taken away four or five feet it remains motionless. They are found iu a region that is comparatively level, and 1b "nothing but a bare rock. Scat tered over this barren region are little ba sins, from a few feet to a rod or two diam eter, and it is in theso that the rolling stones are found. They are from the size of a pea to five or six inches in diameter. The cause of these stones rolling together is doubtfess to be found in the material of which they are composed, which appears to be leadstono or magnetic iron ore. Made Him Pay. When Gen. Jackson was President, a hcattless cloik in the Treasury Depart ment ran up an indebtedness witli a poor landlady to $80, and thou turned her off, as be did every othor creditor. Sho finally went to the President with her complaint, and asked if he could not compel the clerk to pay tho bill. " He offers his note," she said, "but his note is good for nothing." Said the President, " got his note and bring it to mo." Tho clork gave her the note with the jooring request, " she would let hira know when sho got the money on it." Taking it to the President ho wrote, "An drew Jackson " on the back of it, and told her that she could get the money at the bank. Whon it became due the cloik re fusod to pay the note, but when he learned who was the endorser, ho mado haste' to "raise the wind" The next morning he found a note on his desk saying that his services were no. longer required by the government and it served him right. "Kiss Mf, Mother i For I Can't Hold on . j any Longer .". , .j :; In describing the flood which was sodis asterons to many sections of Virginia, the Lynchburg papers record the following very sad and touching incident : A mother and several little children were, making thoir escape from a "narrow nock of land," whioh lies between the river and the canal. They had reachod the banks of the twial whcii they wort amazed to find that the bridgo was already gone ; and their only hope was to cling on to the abutment of tho bridgo until tho angry waters should subsido.' But as they stood thore clinging to the abutment, the waters continued to riso higher and higher, whilo in the deep darkness they could hear the crushing of trees amid tho thunders of bridge timbers that were wildly dashing all around them. They had been iu this desperate condition for soino timo, when tho littlo girl felt that her strength was gone, and with a'wild shriek of terror sho exclaimed; "Kiss me mother, for.I can't hold on any longer !" and with the warm pressure of that mother's lips upon her chock, sho was swept away, and was scon no more. Christian mothers what a lesson is hero for your sober reflec tion, and to arouse your most anxious solici tude. Theso littlo ones that hang around your knees oh, how strong, and deep and how irrepressible is that love which they lavish upon you ? Think about tho lovo. and cherish it as you would hidden treas ures ; and then again, think of this incident as expressive of tho real spiritual condition of your children. If you are a Christian, you know tho dangers that encirclo them. The storm of sin is already raging, and ar round you are dashing tho wrecks and ruins of other souls. There is a thick darkness that has sottled down upon the world, and if in your terrible anxiety you will only listen, you can hear tho shrieks of others that are perishing, and the mad dened rush of pout up waters that are Bwecpiug around you. Legal Jokes. When Chief Justice Shaw, was on the bench, a distinguished member of the bar met the following reproof: "Where did you get tho money with which you mado tho purchase spoken of?" asked tho "learn ed brother" of a witness under the tortures Of cross-examination. "None of your (gentlo expletivo) business 1" thundered the victim. " Now, may it please you, are counsel to be insulted in this manner?" ap pealed the lawyer. "Witness," said the Chief Justice, compassionately, "do you wish to change your last answor?" "No, sir, I don't 1" " Well, I wouldn't if I were in your place I" And the chuckle that shook the bench was audibly echoed. "Everybody reeollects Undo Van Meter, the colored philosopher of Barkersvillo, who died some months since. Van was as a character. He was summoned on one occa sion as a witness in the Supremo Court on a cow case at the time of the benevolent Judgo Hathaway presided. Tho counsel on either sido, out of sheer fun racked their brains to obfusticate the veteran African boy by plying all manner of qucs. tions pertainin gto every other topic but the cow. Tho experiment was successful, and poor befogged Van answered as wildly as a blind pugilist strikes out his antago nist. Judge Hathaway willing to enjoy a little sport, but with a view of getting the bewildered philosopher back to a rational stand point, turned benignantly toward him and put a simple question. This was more than the illustrious voudoo could staud; a magazine nover oxplodod quicker. Lifting both hands above his head and with a countenance beaming with despair, "I scz now, you old gray-haired gemmen up dar on de bench, don't you interfere wid dis matter. I've just as much as I can do to take care of dese chaps down here I" I if' President Hopkins of Williams Col lege is thoroughly good and greatly loved, and he is a stately and dignified old gentle man withal. All these excellent qualities added a quaint effect of contrast to tho suddeness of the following answer which tne worthy president once received, and which illustrates the principle that "ridi cule is the test of truth." In the railroad cars ono day the President descriod one of his students, a youth of regrotablo habits In point of dissipation, and wearing at that momment the haggered and dishev elled looks of one not yet over the effects of a hard debauch. Stepping up to tho young man.lookiiighiin sternly yet sadly in the face, the President said in a deep and impressive tone : " Been on a drunk I" "So have I," was the auswor. Greeley on Maple Sugar. A great many ridculous funny things aro published concerning Greeley's viows on agricu Rural affairs, of which the following is a sample: Mr. Greeley says the reason uiere is a scarcity or maple sugar this spring is, that the farmers didn't more than half manure their sugar seeds when thev ulant. ed thera lust fall. He says for every seed you plant you want a whole nils of manure.. whon the vines will be fairly weighed down wnn scolloped cakes. Farmers will never learn anything if they keep on fooling away their time as they have the past year. Xcw Advertisement. ; THE cause And cube off OOIVHUMPTIONt rpilE primary cause tf Coniumptlon is de JL rangement of tbe digestive ergans. This derangement produces deficient nutrition and assimilation. By assimilation, I mean that process by which the nutriment of the food is converted Into blood, and thence into the solids or the body. Persons with digestion thus im paired, baring tbe slightest predisposition to pulmonary disease, or If they take cold, will be very liable to have Consumption of tbo Lungs in some of its forms ( and I hold that it will be Impossible to cure any case of Consumption without first restoring a good digestion and healthy assimilation. Tho very first thing to be done Is to cleanse the stomach and bowels from all diseased mucus and slime, which Is clogging these organs so that they cannot per form thcl functions, and then rouse up and restore the liver to a healthy action. - For tbe purpose the surest and best remody is Schenck's Mandrake Pills. Theso rills el'oan the stom ach nnd bowels of nil the dead and morbid slime that is causing diseaso and decay In the wholo system. They will clear out the liver of all diseased bllo that has accumulated there, and rouse It up to a now and healthy action, by which natural and healthy bllo is secreted. Tho stomach, bowels, and liver arc thus cleansed by the use of Schenck's Mandrake Pills but there remains In the stomach an ex cess of acid, the orguu Is torpid and the appe tite poor. Iu th bowels the lactuals are weuk, and requiring strength and snpport. It Is in a condition like this that Bchenck' Seaweed Tonic proves to bo the most valuable remedy ever discovered. It Is alkaline, and Us use will neutralize all excess of acid, making the stomach sweet and fresh It will give perma nent tone to tbis important organ, and create a UtMlA. llftflrtV flVWAtltn oiwl ...w. U - - .. Ufor the first process of good digestion, and, ul- mimicij iuukc guoa, ucauny, living Diooo. After this preparatory treutmeut,whut remains to cure most cast of Consumption is the free and persevcrclng use of Schenk'a Pulmonic Syrup. The Pulmonic Syrup nourishes the system, purifies the blood, and is readily ab sorbed into tbe circulation, and thence distrib uted to the diseased lungs. There it ripens all morbid matters, whether in the form of ubsces scs or tubercles, and then assists Nature to ex pel all tbo diseased matter, In the form of free expectoration, whon once it rlpenB. It Is then by tho great healing and puryfylng properties of Schonk's Pulmonic Syrup, that all ulcers and cavities are healed up sound, and my pa tient is cured. Tho essential thing to be done In curing Con sumption Is to get np a good appetite and a good digestion, so that the body will grow in tlcsh and get strong. If a person has diseased lungs a cavity or abscess there rho cavity cannot heal, tho matter cannot ripen so long as tho system is below par. What is neccssury to cure is a new order of things a good appe tite, a good nutrition, the body to grow in Ucsh and get fut; then Nuture is helped, the cavities will heal, tho matter will ripen and be throws off In large quantles, and tbo person wlllregnia health and starength. This is the true aud on ly plan to cure Consumption, and if a porson Is not entirely destroyed, or even If ono lung Is eAtirely gone, if there Is enough vitality lea In the other to beal up, thore Is hope. I have seen many persons cured with only one sound lung, live and enjoy life to a good old Age. ThU Is what Schenck's Medicines will do to cure Consumption. They will clean out tho stomach, sweeten and strengthen It, get up a good digestion, and give Nature tbe sys tem of all tbs diseases sho needs to clear tht system of ell the disease that is In the lungs, whatever the form may be. . . It is important that while uslnc Schenck's Medicines, care should bo exorcised not to take cold keep ln-doors In cold and damp weather ; avoid night air, and take out-door exercise only in a genial and warm sunshine. I wish It distinctly understood thet when I recommend a patient to be careful In regard to taking cold, wbile usiug my Medicines,! do se for a special reason. A man who has but par tially recovered from the effects of a bad cold Is far more liable to a relapse than one who has been entirely cured and it it precisely the same in regard to Consumption. So longas the lungs are not perfectly healed, Just so long Is there imminent danger of a full return of the disease. Henes It is that I so strenuously caution pul monary patients against exposing themselves to an atmosphere that is not genial and pleas ant. Confirmed Consumptives' lungs are a mass of sores, which the least change of at mosphere will Inflame. The grand secret of my success with my Medicines consists in my abil ity to snbdue inflammation instead of provok ing It, as many of the fueulty do. An inflamed lung cannot, with safety to the patient, be ex posed to the biting blasts of Winter or the chill ing winds of Bpring or Autumn. It should be carefully shielded from all Irritating tnflunces. The utmost caution should be observed in this particular, as without it a cure under almost any elreumstunces Is an impossibility. The person should be kept on wholesome and nntritious diet, and all the Medicines eon tinned until the body has restored to It the natural quantity of flesh and strength. I was myself cured by this treatment of the worst kind of Consumption, and have lived to get fat and hearty these many years, with one lung mostly gone. I have cured thousands since, and very many have boon cured by this treatment Vhom I havo never seen. About the First of October I expoct to take possession of my new building, at the North east Corner nf Klwth an.l Aw.i. a-A... i t shall be pleased to glvo advico to all who nmv pan ii ton I " Full dirfWLtntia annnmnnnw all T)nn.JI.. 10 that m. TlPrann In .... . ne u - r - vi iua nuriu VUU bo readily cured by a strict observance of the Kama I t r amttmir w . . ' . Philadelphia. BtreV.l-lniM WEATHER STRIPS TORREY'S PATENT. QUALITY MAINTAINED. PKU'KS COMPETE WITH THE oiiisaimsh't. J. S. & J, Torrey, 108 Fulton St., N. V. m. a. JjKlBlNBON HOUSE, (Formerly kept by Woodruff and Turbctt,) ATtw Jiloonfltld, l'trry County, Ia. AMOS ROBIN80N, Proprietor. This well known "and pleasantly located hotel has Iwn lenwd for s immlx-r of years by the iirii. cut uraprletur.anil he will spare no pains to occom. nimluie bis RiiPHls. Hie rooms are eomfoi table, the table we) furnished with the best In the mar ket, and the bar stocked with cholmi honors. A careful and attentive homier will I In attendance: 'AriiTW if" b" k' h tto P"Prletor. TIDIES AND CHILDREN will flud a i splendid assortment or shoes at the one priee store of r. Mortimer. .
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