Iff f Hit T,?rrcjer. AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY NEWSPAPEK. . ' .' "JSJSJ'' "Vol. VII. New JBlooiriileltl, HPn,., Tuesday, Jvily- 21, 1873. No.,30. IS PDBI.I8HED EVERY TUESDAY MORNINO, BY . FEANE MORTIMER & CO., It New Bloomfleld, Terry Co., Pa. Being provided with Htonm Powor, nnd large Cylinder and Job-Presses, we are prepared to do all kinds ol Job-I'rlntlng lu Ijgod style aud at Low Vrices. AiVErtTISIKG ItATKSl Transient 8 Cents perllnO for one Insertion 13 " two Insertions 15 "three insertions Business Notices In Local Column 10 Cents per line. 9For longer yearly adv'ts terms will be given upon application. A PAHODY. The girls are all a fleeting I 'w, For man's illusion given, Their smiles of Joy, their tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, There is not one true In seven. And false the flash of beauties eye, As fading hues of even , And love, and laughter all a He, j : And hopes awakened but to die. There's not one true in seven. Poor mushrooms of a sunny day, Yet bloom and be forgiven, For life's at best a dream away Dull, drowsy, thought I'll join the gay, And romp with all the seven. The Sealed Will. T"0 you suppose, mamma, In case 1 the money goes from me, that it will be given to you ?" "Dear child, how can I over guess? Yonr aunt, remomber, Is your father's sis ter, not mine; so it is scarcely likely she has thought of ' me. I am afraid the heir in the sealed will is John Garland." "Mamma!" " It is only guesa-work, dear." " But be is so unfit to have the responsi bility of money; a man known to be a gamb ler and a drinking man, if not an actual drunkard." " Very true. Yet be is the nearest rela tive your aunt Jessie bad, excepting only yourself." " I can scarcely think Aunt Jessie would leave him fifty thousand dollars." "My dear, she has left it to you, her niece and namesake." " But upon the condition that I shall never marry. If I do, the sealed will in the bands of her lawyer is to be opened, and the money pass from me to the heir or heirs named therein. You must know mo well enough to be sure that the money would never tempt me to break my engage ment; yet for your sake I wish Oh, why did Aunt Jessie leave it to me at all." " Do not think of me. I can live as we have done since father died. But, Jessie," and Mrs. Markham a face looked grave aud sad, " there is one view of the matter you do not take." " I dare say there are tlfty. Remember we have now bad only an hour or two to think, since the letter came from the law yer. But what is the view you mean?" "Charlie." "Charlie?" ' "Jessie's large brown eyes were opened to their widest extent as she repeated the name, adding: " Why, I haven't thought of anything but Charlie !" " But I mean doar me !" said the mother, shrinking from ottering her own thoughts. " You know, dear, you Lave always been considered your aunt's heir ess; and Charlie is young, aud only com mencing Uie practice of his profession. It may be that he will" " Be false to me for the sake of money ?" Interrupted Jessie, with the rosiest of cheeks and brightest of eyes. " We will soon tent that," and she drew a writing table to her side. " I will send him a copy of the lawyer's letter, , and" here her voice and eyes softened" the assurance that Aunt Jennie's will, will make no dif ference to me,", Mis. Markham made no objection to this stop, but after the letter was signed, sealed and dispatched to the village by Polly, the only servant of Mrs. Markham's household, she called Jessie again to her . side. ' Over the fair sweet face of the young girl, there had crept a shade of gravity and perplexity since the arrival of the lawyer's letter, that clouded the brown eyes and gave the sensitive, mobile mouth a firmer pressure than was quite natural. Life bad not beon all sunshine for Jessie Markham, but hers was one of those buoyant natures that find tho silver lining fdr every cloud, and coax some sweetness from every bit ter doae. Iler father bad been doad six years, and bis business affairs having been complicated in some way not comprehensi ble to their intellects, bis widow and child found themselves reduced to an in come that barely covered the necessaries of life. They loft the city, and took a small cottage in tho small village of Morton, where Mrs. Markham soon procured a class of music scholars, and herself gave Jessie lessons in the higher branches of English studies, German, French and music, till, at eighteen, ber daughter also procured a few pupils in languages. They were very happy in their mutual affection, in the love of their pupils, arid the cares of their little household. It had been understood from the time Jessie was a tiny baby that she would in herit the fortune of her maiden aunt, for whom she was named, and who came from the city every summer to spend a month or two in tho little cottage, always bringing pretty presents to brighten the borne of her brother's widow, and lavishing tendcrest affection upon bor niece. Yet though Jessie hersolf bad known of her aunt's supposed intentions, neither she nor her mother had ever made calculations upon a fortune dependent upon the death of the one for whom they felt the warmest affection, and the idea that others could be influenced by it was a new thoughtto tho young girl. She had given to her betrothed, Charlie Beaton, the first love of her young heart, believing his love was all her own. In the six years she bad lived at Merton, child and maiden, Charlie Beaton had been ber devoted admirer from the first, and bad recently finished bis course of law study and been admitted to tbe bar. His fortuno inherited from his father, was very small, barely covering his expenditure for board and clothing, but be was energetic, indus trious, and without brilliant talent, a clear beaded, intelligent student, promising to to make a capable lawyer, if not a shining light at the bar. Answering ber mother's call, Jessie nestled down in ber favorite seat at ber feet, saying, sadly: " If Charlie was influenced by any hope of Aunt Jessie's money, mamma, it is bet ter to know it now. I bad supposed we would have to wait for our wedding day until be bad some practice, and you know I bave a little sum of my own toward first expenses. We could live hero and there, I will not think of any more till the answer comes to my letter." "While you wait, my dear," said ber mother, "shall I tell you what I think is the explanation of your aunt's singular will ? You, who know her only as the gentle, sad woman of ber later years, can scarcely imagine. I presume that she was once as bright, hopeful, and sunny-tempered as ygursolf. I think it is to save you from her own sorrow that sho has taken from you the power of giving wealth to a mere fortune-hunter. She would bave you wooed and won for yourself alone, and and as she has never positively said you were to be ber heiress, she has probably never supposed Charlie biased by that hope. Still, dear, it is possible." " Yes, it is possible," Buid Jessie, slow, ly, "but tell mo about Aunt Jessie." " Your grandfather Markham, Jessie, was one of the leading merchants of New York, when your auut, bis only daughter was introduced into society. Your Uncle Iloyt was in good practice as a physician, your father doing then a fair business, and already married aud in bis own home, " It was, therefore, with the name of an heiress that Jessie danced through her first season, a careless, light-hearted girl, very pretty, aud accomplished enough to make a pleasing impression wherever she went. She was but a little over twenty when she became engaged to Stanley Ilorton, the most fascinating young man in. our circle of friends. Not only handsome and talent ed (and be was both), but possessing in a remarkable degree the courtly polish and winning grace of manners that go so far toward gaining a woman's heart, the ab sorbing love that Jossie fult for him seemed mutual, and congratulations were the or der of tho day, when your grandfather failed. From a mau of wealth he became actually poor, and losing energy and hope, be came with Jessie to share our borne. Stanley Ilorton, the man wo all supposed to be a devoted lover, was fully aware of the change in Jessie's prospects, yet he continued his visits, making no abrupt, un gentlemanly desertion of bis betrothed. Yet we, who watched hor with . the jeal ousy of affection, soon discovered a change in her. She became palo and , sad, often tearful, till finally she confided to me that Stanley was evidently weary of ber, and bad ceased to love her. Even then she at tributed the cbage to some defect in her self, not seeing tho mercouary motive till later, when time bad taken the glamour from her eyes and heart. She gave him back bis ring and promises, thus accepting tho position bis unmanly - conduct bad forced upon ber, of herself breaking the engagement between them. The first love of her life was tho last. Sho was your grandfather's comfort until he died, and then went to kocp houso for Iloyt, who lost his wife and baby one year after bis wedding-day. When he died ho left ber tho bouse and money, and sho lived , there till she died. Still 1 know she lovjed you, and I am quite sure her will is not de signed so much to keep you single as it is to win the disinterested love of your future husband." There was a long silence after Mrs. Markham concluded her story, and Jessie allowed her head to rest in ber mother's lap, under her carressing hand trying to picture a future of easy competency shared by the companion of her life. It had its bright Bide ; there was still love and hap piness for her yet. And then a bright face crowned with curly brown hair would come before her, and she knew that the hand some house nor the comfortable income could ever fill hor heart if Charlie left an aching void thore. . . Suddenly, like a gust of wind, there swept into the little sitting-room, a tall, broad-shouldered yonng man, in a gray tweed suit and slouch hat, which latter article found a resting place upon the floor, as the young giant braced himself before Jessie in an attitude ot grim defiance tbut sent thrills of glad musio into her heart. " Will you have tbe kindness, Miss Mark ham," said tho intruder, towering in bis six feet of manhood over Jessie's new seat, " to tell me what you mean by that absurd letter Polly banded me? Was it not fully understood that you and I were to share this cottage with your mamma until I at tained sufficient legal eminence to warrant the purchase of a brown-stone front in New York ? I was deluded into tbe belief that your presence in the culinary department of our establishment was to reduce our ex pences to the limits of our present income ? Was it not represented to me that my present hoard was sufficient to meet tbe re quirements of two in this domicile? In short, Miss Markham, in what way was I ever lod to suppose that the fortune of your spinster aunt was to influence iu the slightest degreee your matrimonial rela tions in regard to myself? I pause for a reply." Jessie stood up, ber hands meekly folded together, and her happy eyes downcast till the long lashes kised her cheek. " Please forgive me for this time, and I'll never do it again," she said ; and then the laugh dimpled her cheek, danced in her eyes, and rippled out clear and sweet upon the air. "Oh, Charlie! -Charlie! I knew you never thought of Aunt Jessie's money." " And you," said Charlie, holding her off at arm's length, " you can have it all if you give me up." " As if I loved money better than you," said Jessie, nestling now in the strong arms wrapped closely around her. It seemed, however, as if Charlie was ac tually afraid of the money that was so temptingly near Jessie's grasp, for he com menced a series of interviews that bore en tirely upon the subject of an immediate marriage. " What is there to wait for ?" he would ask, and then enter upon calculations of bis present expenses and those of the future, proving most conclusively that there was a decided saving for both in uniting their incomes. "You remind me," said Jessie, "of the Dutchman who said he could almost sup port himself alone, and it was a pity if two of them could not do it entirely." But though she laughed at him, Jessie was quite willing to admit the force of bis reasoning, nnd one bright Juno morning six m out lis aftor Aunt Jessie's death, there was a quiet wedding in the villago chnrcl ana a Dreavmst in me coraige lor a le chosen friends. Among ' these was Aui: Jessie's lawyer, for tbe will stipulated thi tbe scaled codicil was to be opened Rt Je sie wedding If she preferred love to money, The bride was a little paler than usual when, with a solemn face, the New York lawyer broke the big red seal. Visions of John Garland holding drunken revels in her aunt's house flitted across ' her mind, and then she looked into Charlie's face, and over her own crept an expression of perfect content. . ' ' The will was opened, and found to con tain only a lottcr directed to Jessie, and a short, legally worded formula, making her self and ber chosen husband joint inherit ors of her aunt's fortune. Truly, the bride opened the letter from the dead. With loving words Aunt Jessie blessed ber, and wished ber happiness. '' " I do not," she wrote "apppve of the money power in a family being entirely in the hands of a woman, therefore, you will find, dear Jessie, that half of my fortune only is yours, the remaining half to go to the husband who has proved that he loved you for your own sweet selfj' and not for your fortune." During the wedding tour of the young couple, Mrs. Markham, at their earnest so licitation, took an affectionate farewell of her pupils, and removed ber household treasures to the New York mansion, to which, in duo time, came Charlie and Jos sie to brighten the long silent rooms with their happiness, and establish that loving' circle that makes home of any bouse, bow ever grand, or however humblo. A Boisterous Honey Moon. SOME weeks since a sturdy young farm er from the neighborhood of II , started for the State. Capitol to be united in tbe bonds of holy wedlock. The twain were accompanied by a sympathising sistor, who wore upon her immaculated bosom the "sear and yellow leaf of forty au tumns, but whoso intense prudery had compelled her to shun the paternal roof and take up her abode as a domestic in a neighboring village. ' Tbe sturdy agricola and his dulciuea were duly married and with their sisterly attendent repaired to a certain hotel to pass the night. The peo ple at the hostelry where this happy bridal party stopped, wondered at the singular manner iu which they conducted them selves. The husband would take his newly made sister-in-law into a retired corner of the sitting-room,' and with more than histrionic earnestness of gesticulation ar gue with her for several minutes succes sively. Under this the autumnal maidon would excitedly remonstrate, and using a certain pedal movement, vulgarly yclept "putting tbe foot down," exclaiming with all the emphasis of a perturbated heroine, "I Bball." ' Then the husband would take his blushing bride into another corner, but no sooner had they " met and kissed" than the halcyon momenta would be inter rupted by ' the interposition of the excited maiden of forty autumns. About 10 o'clock the people of tbe hotel began to ascertain what was the real issue in the case. There was a "rumpus" in the bridal chamber. Feminine shrieks and masculine oaths intermingling without number, startled the hotel people, and thoy rushed to the apartment in which lay the epithalamium. The maiden 6f forty summers was press ing rearward against tbe door with all the force of a battering-ram, while tbe bride groom, now in dishabille, was preventing ber entrance with all his might. occasionally sue wouiu so lar enect an entrance as to reveal within, the burly form of ber brother-in-law in his gentleman " Greek Slave" apparol. It appears the maiden of forty autumns was determined to oocupy tbe same bed as the .newly married pair ; it also appeared that her sister favored the arrangement, and that her lord aud master had acqul esod In it before the wedding, but now in, dignantly repudiated the contract. " Won't you leave, now, Mollie?" says the bridegroom, sotto voice. ' " No 1" says the irate sistcr-In-law, "I'll be darned if I will 1" 1 - ' "Don't come down a peg !" echoes the angel within the bridal chamber. "'Hold up, now, Jennie," says tho pe- ' wildered young rustic to his amiable young spouse; "for God's sako don't go kicking 1 up In this way, now, I beg of you, now don't. " I'll kick as much as I want to," the darling acridly replied. " Well," shouted the now despairing and desperato man, putting on his wedding raiment and bodily advancing into the crowd, "Jest you two critters put on your : whole garments make a Woe lino for home, and bring back here the old man and wo man, your aunts and their nieces, and I'll -d if I don't marry the whole capoodle of 'em, and we'll sleep together." It Is needless to say that the whole diffi culty was settled soon after, and the au tumnal virgin was content to retire to a sep arate room, where, no doubt, she dreamt dreams of conjugal infelicity. How a Bill of Fare Puzzled an Indian. While at dinner,. Whitowash-iu-his-Eye called to him a waiter, who said "ugh I" as a delicate compliment, and handed him a bill of faro. The chieftain pointed to the first item, and said "ugh!" Tho waiter said " ugh 1" and returned a cup of coffee. , Now, even though a cup of coffee is a good thing, it is hardly a meal for a man. An other interchange of "ughs !" resulted in a cup of black tea, and again a cup of mixed tea. In 4uspair, the brave uttered an angry " ugh ?" that made the waiter turn pale, and pointed to the last item oh the bill, evidently anxious to get as far away from tho teas as possible. ,, i The waiter faltered " ugh 1" and buried) ' back with a tuuiblor of iced tea. , The others, warned by tho example and fate of their comrade, attacked the bill of fare " in'me dias rest." One struck "pay eat," under the head "broiled," and bad an abundant, if not varied, meal of mutton: chops, veal) cutlets, broiled chicken, pork chops, sur loin steak, portor-houso steak, Boston, steak, &c. Combining their information. the remaining members of tbe party wan dered over the bill of faro, taking every di vision by starts, aud none of them long. The result was eminently satisfactory to. the aboriginal stomach, which is capacious, and has no prejudices as to the succession and relative proportions of soup, fish, game entrees, boiled, roast, game and dessert. One erratic brave owned his muttutinal, distension to a judicious compound of : 1, coffee ; 2, cantelope ; 8, ice-cream ; 4, Irish, stew ; S, steak ; 0, Worcester sauce ; 7, mustard ; 8, mellon ; 0, fried potatoes ; 10, mackerel ; 11, Graham bread ; 12, iced tea : 1.1, tried eggs; 14, sliced tomatoes; and IS, buttered toast ; and his bosom was rent with emotion when be found ' that the waiter shook his head whenthe line 'Guests, having friends to dinner will please give notico at the oliice" was indicated. A Painter In Trouble. Old Mr. Watson, on Nelson street, bas got a nice little bill to pay. ' lie sent a man down town for a pot of paint and a ladder. Then be tied the paint pot to the end of the ladder and put, the ladder on his shoulder, and the man admired it very much, Ho started for home this way, and didn't find any trouble in getting along the first block, because the people had an im pression that a long ladder with a pot of yellow paint dangling -on the end of it wasn't exactly the thing to triile with so they balanced along on the ' curb-stone, or rubbed against tho buildings. Pretty soon the man saw somebody in a store he knew, and turned around to speak to him, and drove one end of the ladder into a millinery case and knocked the crown put of an eigh teen dollar bonnet. Then he backed off in affright and knocked down two sewing machine agents with the other end. Then he started to turn around, and au old gen tleman who was desperately endeavoring to get his wife out of danger, saw the peril, and shouted " Hi there !" But it was, too late. The pot struck against an awning post, tipped to one side and the entire con tents went over the aged couple. This so startled the man that he wheeled complete ly around, smashing in an entire store front, frightening a milk man's team, and knock ing over some thirteen persons who were actively dodging about to get out of tho way. Then lie dropped the ladder and tied into the country, shouting "murder" and " lire" at every jump. New Zealand Birds. It appears that the mon a name given by New Zealanders to the huge wingless birds whose homes are now and then found in the swamps, forest, nnd other places is not an extinct species, as has generally been supposed. A very largo bird far larger than the emu has been long reputed to exist in the baok portions of a run in the Waiu district. Its exis tence has now been verified. On a recent occasion a shepard started the creature from a maunka scrub with a sheep dog. It ran until it was fairly on the brow of a terrace above the dog, aud some thirty or for yards off, whon it turned at bay. The bird is described as bending its long neck up and down, exactly like the Muck swan whon disturbed, as considerably taller than any emu ever seen in Australio, aud as standing very much more erect on its legs. The color of its feathers is a silvery grey, with greenish streaks through it. If this story is truo, it destroys the notion which has hitherto prevailed, that no large mons hayo been seen alive since about 1630. bed- HMiWrMMI KMC t
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