l)c mc0, New Bloomftefo, Jcu v.'e ENIGMA DEPART ME NT . ' - :. . . . , 1 n All contributions to thin department must be accompanied by the correct answer. , Square Word Entgnm. , My first li to deride. , .'''.'',' My second Is a kind of look. My third was tbe surname of a proml neut Statesman. My fourth was the surname of a man whose , . murder caused a great excitement. V '."0 . m,m Cross-Word Enigma, My first Is in scowl, but not In frown My second Is In village, but not In town My third Is In milk, but not In water " My fourfli Is In mould but not potter ( My fifth is In Tell, but not lu Swiss i My sixth Is lu Belle, but notlnMUSi My seventh is in ball, but not In kite ; My eighth Is In condition, but npt In plight ) My ninth Is in mad, but not in cry My tenth is In moon, but not In sky ( ' My eloventh Is in laws, also In constitution ; My whole was a statesman of the revolution. VT Answer to Geographical Enlrmo In last week's Times : Albatst, New Tohk. MY WIDOW. BY JIOCIIE8TER. "TONES ndviKcd mo not to marry her- fj he said slio was too young and pretty. Farmyn advised me to bo an old bachelor told me a man past forty simply made a fool of himself by matrimony. Tewksbery a man who is notorious for never minding his own business told me she had mado a love affair with Harry Birmingham, before ho wont South. Allen shook his head, and said Clara Myers might be very pretty, but ho liked somebody maturo and settled. (N. 13. He married his housekeeper the next week, and she is mature euough for Methuselah himself.) Everybody thought I was trying a dan gerous experiment; but I didn't pretend to suit everybody go I simply suited myself. I went quietly to church with Clara Myers, and married her one glorious January morninc wheu the old St. Turn s was fringed with glittering icicles and the brisk wind was freighted with particles of Hying snow, like a batallion of. diamonds on a double quick. She was nineteen and I was nino and thirty. She was as beautiful as a rosebud I -was a rough old codger, sound euough at heart, but like a winter apple, unpromising on the exterior. In short, we wero as unlike as May and November, and the Bd-naturcd world shook its head and said, " no good could come from such an unequal match. But sho said sho loved mo and I behoved her. Nobody could look Into Clara's bluo eyes and not believe her, you see. Tho next day I mado my will and ho qucthed all my property unconditionally to my wife. "Are you snro you are doing a wiso thing, Mr. Follipt?" said Mr. Mardyn, tho lawyer, pushing his blue spectacles upon his forehead, until he looked like an old bald cnome, with a double pair of eyes. " You see she is very much younger than your self, and" " Please to bo so kind as to mind your own business," said I brusquely. " Don't be offended, Mardyn, hut really peoplo seem to suppose I am not able to at tend to my own aflairs." "Just as you please," said Mardyn, in a rage. " I am a mere tool in your hands.' "That's it, exactly," said I. Sol sign ed the will and went home to Clara. "Oh, Paul, you must not die!" said Clara, with a scared look, when I told her what I had dono. " Nobody ever loved me as truly and generously as you have dono, and I don't know what I should do if you wero taken away !" " There was young Birmingham, If all reports are true ," I mischievously began, but the curl of Clara's lip stopped me. "A mere butterfly," she Bald tauntingly " without either brains or principle. Paul, I have found a shelter in your true, loving heart, and I moan to nestle there always 1" And then she cried this foolish, soft hearted little wife of mine. Jones and Tewksbery might have called this policy. Farnura would have said It it was acting. But it was very pleasant,' hut I felt more than ever like a man who had found some precious jewel, and wears it like an amulet on Ills breast. So the thing went on until the firm of which I was managing partner needed to end some one to Calcutta to see after a turbaned scoundrel of an agent, who had absconded with more money than he could well afford to lose. Morrison was old aud feeble Hewitt's wifo lay very ill, so I was the one to go. I kissed Clara good-by as cheerfully aa I could, fully expecting to be back in three months or so. ' I had to follow the agent up into the mountains of India.! fell ill of one of thoso burning climate fevers in the bungalow of an old native priest, and the months flew by, until it was more than a year . before I found myself on the " Blue-eyed Mary," teaming into New York harbor. And all this time Clara bad not heard a word from him. I had written to her to prepare ber for what seemed almost like my rising from the dead, hut 1 had afterwards found my letters in tho pocket of the neglectful na tive servant who had undertaken to deliver the mail to the Calcutta office, t : , t M But It don't matter so much now 1" I thought she would be tho more delighted, poor, little girl J ' And then a cold chill seemed to creep through all my veins, like November's wind suddenly breathed .across a .bed of flowers. i .. I .. i. . l v . . Clara hnd heard nothing of me for fifteen months what might have happened in that time ? t All that Tewksbery, and Jones', and Allen, and all other prophetic ravens of me acquaintance had said, recur rod to my mind like a burden of an uneasy dream 1 I had beeu counting the hours and the very minutes, until we should touch port but now that my" feet rang ;e more on the pavomont of my native city. I actually dared not go homo. I turned into a down town restaurant, where I had been wont to go, in tho days of my bachelorhood, and slunk into a dark corner the twilight was just falling, and I was sheltered by tho partition. Hush 1 that was Tewksbcry's voico, harsh and jarring.as of old. "Just what might have been expected," said Tewksbery. "Pretty and young widows don't go begging in this market." "Folliot might have known it," growled old Farnum. " Poor Folliot, there was some good points about him, too! sad thing that, very sad thing !" " Wo must all die," said Tewksbery, gravely. t " Yes, but a fellow would naturally pre fer dying in his bed to ho carried oil" by an East Indian fever and buried in the jun gles." I shuddered. Had I como homo to my own funeral as it were. "And sho is going to many young Birmingham after all?" ndded Farnum. Tho paper dropped from my hand. " I could have told Folliot so when found out the confounded Idiotic will ho had mado," said Tewksbery. So gold has fallen again. Just my luck; I sold out to day." I stayed to hear no more, but staggered out in the darkness with one idea vrhirliii; through my ciizzy brain my Clara wa mine no longer. ' ' ' , It was unquestionably as Tewksbery had said; I might have anticipated some such end. Shoewas too young, too lovely for such a rough fellow us I was. My widow ! what a curious sensation the woids gave bb I mentally pronounced them. Under my own windows, with the ruby red light shining through the wine-colored damask curtains, I stood there fueling as Rip Van Winklo might havo felt in the play like a dead man walking upon the earth once more. Voices and lights were within. I qpencd tho door softly and crept into the hall The drawing room door was ajar, Clara herself stood before the fire, with a frill of white crape on her auburn gold tresses the awful sign of her widowhood, Directly opposite stood Harry Birming. ham, looking diabolically young and hand some in the soft light. "Clara, Clara," he cried, "you surely are not in earnest. You will reconsider?' "My answer is, final," she replied. " The time might 'once hnvo been when I fancied I had a childish liking for you, Harry Birmingham. But that time has long since passed away. I gave my heart to the best and noblest man that ever breathed 1'aul f olliot and in but grave it is forever buried. I loved him once, shall love uim on into eternity I I never was half worthy of him, but " And Clara's voice was choked with sobs. " My love my darling my own precious wire!" How I ever got into the room how managed to mako Clara comprehend that I was my own living self, and not a ghost risen from the shudow of the' sepulchre, I cannot tell to this day neither can she, hut I know that young Birmingham somehow disappeared,and I was standing with Clara clasped to my breast, the happiest man that ever breathed God's blessed air. For Jones, Tewksbery, Farnum & Co. were all wrong and to use the words oi the orthodox fairy stories, slightly phar- aphrased, I and my widow "lived happily ever afterwards." tF In a Western city a cabinet-maker employed two Germans as porters to deliver his furniture. One morning he loaded hi car with a bureau, and gave directions where to have it left. "And by the by," said he to one of them, banding him a shilling, on your way back get a pint of peas." They stayed an unusual time, and when they did return, it was soon ascertained that they had enormous " levicks" in their hats. . " Why, you Infernal rascals 1" roared the angry boss, " you are both drunk." "Yaw," said one of them, "you gift us tor shilling to nuy a pint-a-piece ;' we drinkt him, and we are pote so drunk ter tcuyful I" .; ' 7Josb Billings says he will never pat ronize a lottery so long as be can hire any. body else to rob him at reasonable wages, How Oil Cloths nro Mado. O little interest pertains to the process cloths, which have become an article of such universal consumption. Tho body of them, as is well known, is coarse canvas, made of flax, with more or less hemp inter mixed.. Jt is always essential that this cloth should he without seam, and its man ufacture, .therefore is a distinct branch of business. ' It Is woven of all widths, iron one to eight, or more, yards, and of any convenient or required length. Those webs are rolled in hales and disposed of to tho painters, as print cloths aro to tho calico printers.- At the painting establishments tho canvas is taken first to what is called the " framo room," whore stand a number; of upright wooden frames arranged for stretching pieces of canvas of various dimensions. Before each frame is a scaffold, with plaU forms and ladders, which will enablo the workmen easily to reach any part of tho cloth. A pieco of this cut from the wob, of whatever dimensions may bo required, is first strotched tightly over a frame. Care, however, is required that, if this is done in dry weather, tho contraction, which occurs in tho hempou fiber when moistened, shall not hurst the canvas upon wet days, as it has sometimes been known to do. This tightening, and relieving tho tension, is easily effected by means of screws and roll ers in tho sides and ends of the frame. To prepare for the paint a weak solution of glue size is first laid upon the back of tho cloth with brushes, and while yet damp, ubbed in with pumice stono. This smooths irregularities, and fills up interstices of tho cloth, so as to prevent tho paint, yet to bo laid on, from penetrating too far; for this would mako tho cloth brittle. When this oyat is dry, nnothor, mado of oil and some cheap coloring matter, somewhat thicker than is. used in house painting, follows. This is called " trowel coat," bocauso it is thrown ou in "dabs " with a thick brush, and then worked smoothly in with a long, elastic, steel trowel. Aftor about two weeks this becomes dry enough to admit of another similar coat, which is worked and smoothed with still creator care, so as to finish tho work upon tho back of tho cloth But, meantime, similar operations havo been going ou upon tho other, or faco Bide; first the gluo sizing, then a " trowel coat," rubbed in so caret ully , with the pumice stone asto smootu away every kuot , or ir regularity iu tho cloth. Then follow two more trowel coats and pumico rubbings, and when thesehre dry, another coat care fully laid on with the brush. This is called the " brush coat." Tho oporation thus far has consumed from two to three months, and for the best goods the original cloth is nearly quadrupled in weight by the materi als put upon it. It is now cut down from tho frame, aud, tho face being carefully protected, is carried to the " printing room." In printing, each color is put on by itself. The pattern is first carefully drawn upon paper. This is then laid upon other sheets, and all parts of tho figure which are to ho laid on in any particular shade aro traced upon tho under sheet by pricking through tho lines that bound them. This under sheet is then laid upon the smooth faco of a block of wood, which has been prepared for the purpose, and finely pulverized color ing matter shaken above it, which, scatter ing through the perforations, traces the lines upon the wood so that the engraver can easily cut that part of tho figuro upon its face, A similar operation prepares block for each of the other colors, which, altogether, make up the whole figure. These blocks are usually not large perhaps about eighteen inches square; but the face, at least, must be of some smooth, tough grained wood, liko the pear. Prepared with so much care, they aro expensive, and, in most establishments they represent no small part of tho capital required. In using the blocks a smooth, soft pad in prepared, upon which tho paint Is freely laid with a brush (usually by a boy, who stands near with a paint pot), when the workmen puts the face of the block upon this pad. and then transfers it to the oil cloth, which has been stretched upon a table near, and the particular spot prepared to receive tbe impression by being roughened with a steel scraper and uard brush. Formerly the workman struck his block a few sharp blows with a heavy hammer, so as to make his impression distinct. Lately he secures the same result much better with screw-presses, differing somo what in construction in dif ferent establishments. Having put on his portion of the figure he goes to the next square, always adjusting his block with th greatest precision as he proceeds. He is followed by another workman, who puts on another color In the same way; and ho by another, and another, until as many has gone over the same spot as there are colors to be laid on, and the figure is complete, Any imperfections are afterward remedied by a camel's hair brush. Tbe whole cloth, when thus completed, pleoemeal, is careful ly removed to the drying-room, where it is Kept loi months. tW Fame is like a shaved pig with greased tall, and it is only after it has slipped through the ' bands of some thous ands that some fellow, by good luck, holds ontoit. " ' A Phenomenon in the Oil Regions. , The Titusville Courier of the 27th ult., gives the following interesting particulars of the Newton well on tho Nelson farm, six tnilos north of that city: ' It has been down , about twenty days, has continudsuly pour ed forth such a volume of gas that it was found impossible to pump it, as the valves would not work. Tho tubing was pulled OH Wednesday, " and tho won ' was cased in order to lot tho gass blow off, so that it might be pumped. After tho casing was put in, the sand pump was lowered for the purpose of agitating the well and tho gas raised a column of water, throwing a solid stream Into tho air a hundred feet. The noiso was something like the loud roar of thunder, and when tho column burst at tho top it throw the water each way fifteen rods from the well. Tho noiso around sounds like the rushing of a whirlwind. The column can be seen a mile from the well. No tools can bo put Into the well. As soon as the attempt is mado, with such force does tho gas come out, that tho tools are carried into tho air. From descriptions f eye witnesses, this is probably tho great est oil well ever struck in tho oil regions. Up to dato the gas showed no signs of being exhausted. Tho peoplo in that vi cinity aro very much alarmed, and tho cattle run about tho fields perfectly wild with fright. "Jonathan." Tho English journals report tho case of a miller who was recently tried on the charge of having in bis possession sixty-three sacks of an articlo supposed to bo sawdust, for tho adulteration of meal. This particular substance, it was proved, is called "Jona than," and for tho last fifteen years has been extensively used by millers to mix with Indian and bailey meal. An analyti cal chemist, having examined the articlo, stated that it consisted entirely of libro, re- Berabling calcined and ground oat husks, and that the proportion of nutritious mat ter did not amount to one iu two thousand parts. The defenco contended that tho articlo not being sawdust, but being tho husks of oats, was not a "foreign sub stance," within the meaning of the act of Parliament which forbado such adultera tions. Tho Court, however, held that " Jonathan" was not a legal ingredient of meal, and imposed tho prescribed penalty for its use. B2F" During the thunderstorm on tho 2d Inst., tho farm house of Henry Hoy, in East Brunswick township, Schuylkill coun ty was struck by lightning and considera bly damaged. Tho fluid struck the light ning rod and ran down, passing through the stone basement wall into tho kitchen, where it played sad havoo with things in general. Mr. Hoy was in tho upper part of the building, and escaped injury. Upon hearing the report he ran down and found the members of his family lying insensible upon tho floor, and immediately applied water freely, which soon revived them. The electric fluid passed out through tho kitchen door into tho garden, leaving dis tinct visiblo marks of destruction in its course withering every green thing for some distance around. The escape of tho family from instant death, and tho house from burning, is considered miraculous. This is tho most destructive freak of light ning we have been called upon to record this season. Homo Again. Miss Amanda Barber, who marriod Squatting Bear," a Cruel Sioux chief, at Washington, in 1807, and went to Dacotah Territory, with her husbnnd, as a mission. ary, has arrived at her home in Milford Mass., aftor spending three years with the Sioux, suffering gross indignities and being compelled to perform tho most menial ser vices. Sho attcmpod to escape, but was recaptured and beaten nearly to death by her husband, aud then sold to the Chey enne chief for threo ponies. She was taken north iu 1870, aud remained with the Choy- onucs till this spring, when she escaped to Fort Bouton, and was brought from there by a government steam-boat to. Kansas city. t"About Ave years ago Miss Eliza Hite, now about twenty-threo years of ago, re siding on Bedford street, in Cumberland, Md., lost tho power of speech entirely from the effects of a cold, and had not, up to Sunday last uttered a word since. Tho skill of tho best medical advisers of that city and Baltimore was obtained by her distressed parents, but all in vain, and all hopes of restoration were given up Sunday morning she was retnr ning from church, and was thinking of a particula tune sung by the choir at the service, when she found herself unconsciously humming it. She was greatly astonished to hear sounds issuing from her lips, but proceded to make other experiments, and found t hat sho could speak. One Cent For a Kiss. Daniel Harvey, of Baruot, Vt., claimed that Joseph Wbltcher had insulted bis sis ter by attempting to kiss her. ' He went over to the residence of Whitoher and de manded an apology, which Whitcher deny ing the Insult, refused to make. Upon this Harvey gave Whitcher a smart beating, for which he was fined 88 60. Then Har vey's sister sued Whitcher for tho attempt ed kissing, and recovered one cent damages. Farmers Take Notice. rjIHE subscriber otters tor 8ale , !' , ;. THRESHING MACHINES. JACKS and HORSE POWER, With Tumbling Shaft. andBlde-Oearlnff, Warrant- (Ml to irlve satisfaction 111 simrriv ami nsrfnct threshing, light dratt and durability, on reasona ble terms. Also . PLOUGH H Of Superior Make. CORN 'SHKLLEHS, !' i, : ; : KET.TI.ES, . , STOVES, ' SCOOPS AND ALL CA8TING8, made at a country Foundry. Also, A GOOI) MILL SCREW, , In excellent order, for sale At a - low rate. I refer those wlshlntr to buv to John Adam. Samuel Shuman, John Morten, Ross Heneh, at Ickesburg. Jacob Shoemaker & Son, Elliotts- uurg: 'x nomas morrow, i,oysvllle; John Flick nx ug: 'x nomas morrow, i,oysvllle; John Fllcking , Jacob F'llcklnger, Centre. 62013 er, ' SAMUEL LIGGETT. Ickesburg, May 14. 1872. Xeio Milliner Goods A.t We-vrpovt, ,'111. I BEG to Inform the public Hint I have Just re turned from Philadelphia, with a full assort ment oi the latest styles oi MILLINERY GOODS, . HATS AND BONNETS, RIBBONS, FRENCH FLOWERS, FEATHERS, CHIGNONS, LACE CAIES, . ' NOTIONS, And all articles usually found In a llrst-class Mil linery Establishment. All orders promptly at tended to. -We will sell all goods as Cheap as can be got elsewhere. DltESS-MAKINO done to order and In (lie la. test style, as I get the lateht Fashions from New York every month, (iollering done to order, in all widths. I will warrant all my work to ulve sat. Isfactluii. All work done as low as possible. ANNIE ICKES, Cherry Street, near tho Station, Newport, Pa. 616 13 CARLISLE CARRIAGE FACTORY. A. B. SIIEIIK has a large lot of second-hand work on hand, which he will sell cheap in order io iuuko room lor new worn, FOR THE SPRING TRADE. , . . . He has. also, the best lot of NEW WORK ON HAND. You can always see different styles. The material Is not iu question any more, for It is the best used. If you want satisfaction In style, quality and price, go to this shop before purchasing elsewhere. There Is no II rin that has a better Trade, or sells more III Cumberland and Ferry counties. REPAIRING AND PAINTING promptly attended to. Factory Corner of South and Pitt Streets, Sdp CARLISLE, PA. PHItRY COUNTY Heal Estate. Insurance, CLAIJI AGENCY. LEWIS POTTER & CO., . Real Eitute Broken), Insurance, Claim Agent Now II loomfiel!, Pn. WE INVITE the attention of buyers and sell ers to the advantages we otter them In nur- cliaslug or disposing of real estate through our of- n ce. We have a verv larsre list of deslrab nronertv- consisting of farms, town property, mills, store and tavern stands, and real estate of any descrip- urn wtucn wu are prepared 10 oner at great oar catns. We advertise our property verv extenslve y, and use all our efforts, skill, and d'llllgeiico to- ellecta sale. We make no charges unless the proM)ity Is sold while registered with us. We also. draw up deeds, bonds, mortgages, audall legal pa pers at moderate rates. no:ue oi me uesi, cneaesv, ana mosc reuaDie flre, life, and cattle Insurance companies In the United States are represented at tills agency. Property Insured either on tho cash or mutual plan, and punctually at 14 and (A per thousand. I'ensiims. bounties, mid all kinds of war claims collected. There are thousands of soldiers and heirs of soldiers who are entitled to pensions and dlcrs, li you were wounded, ruptured, orcontract- eu a disease in ine service iroui wmcu you are dis abled, you are entitled to a pension. When widows of soldiers die or marry, the minor children are entitled to the pension. Parties having any business to transact In our line, are respectfully Invited to give us a call, aw we are conlldent we call render satisfaction lu any branch of our business. - No charge for information. 4 20 ly LEWIS I'OTTER & CO. JOBIN'SON HOUSE, (Formerly kept by Woodruffand Turbctt,) Ntu Bloomflelil, rerry County, fa. AMOS ROBINSON, Proprietor. This well known and pleasantly located hotel has been leased for a number of years by the pres ent proprietor, and he will spare no pains to accom modate his guests. The rooms are comfortable,, the table well furnished with the best In the mar ket, and the har stocked with choice liquors. A careful and attentive hostler will he In attendance A good livery stable will be kept by the proprietor April 3, 1871. tf 'ffffiri A LEOTURE i u Ytxur -- jxn:iN. Just l'ubllshed. In a Sealed Envelope. Trice, 6cts.. A LKCTCKK ON THE NATURE, TREATMENT. AND RADICAL CUKE of all Diseases caused by excess, tiis. Also, Nervousness, Consumption, Eu. uepsy, ana mis, eio., mj. ny iiuiil'.ll l a. UUL. VhKiVLtL, M. XJ., author ox the "tire reen Book,"' etc., eie. The World-renowned author. 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