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ENIGMA DEPART ME NT . '
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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
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