I)c Sftmcs, Neb Bloomftctir, Ja. Jake's Luck; t TXTIIATEVEH will Mr. Squimps W. say? Ob, girls, to think of it poor washed-out Amanda Liza, with her check aprons and faded calicoes to think of her turning out an heiress 1 Whew ! it takes uiy breath away. What'll Jake do now I wonder f"' ' 1 ' Miss Jenny Smith was an acknowledged leader in the Bquimps Academy. She hod maintained her rotund person and round good-natured face in spite of sour bread and scant rations. We thin and starving girls looked up to her as a star of the first magnitude. We clustered round hor in high conclave, as she sat on a desk in the school-room during the temporary absence of our worthy preceptor. : ' "Oh, tMll never think of Juke again," cried a sharp-faced girl in the corner. "I'll bet she will," rejoined Miss Smith, slapping her hand energetically on ber old grammar. Miss Smith had "big broth ers," which may partly account for the vim with which she was wont to express her self. "But oh, don't I wish it was me 1 To think that Amanda Liza, that I used to lend my old collars to " " Young ladies, Miss Bimm 1" cried a warning voice ; whereat Jenny, with more haste than dignity, abandoned her lofty position, and there was a general stampede for seats, as Miss Bimm, the head teacher, came sailing in, followed by Mr. Squimps, the principal, black, tall, and solemn as the shadow of a lamp-post. Now for stricter rules, longer lectures on proprie ty, and a general surveillance founded on " certain rcoent occurrences." What would Mr. Squimps say ! Ay, to be sure that was always a question of ira portance, and Mr, Squimps always said a good deal. Ilere was an especial theme for bis eloquence ; for this case of poor Amanda Liza, who had been his bondslavo for ten years, cuffed aud cornered, making no sign, and at last turning out to have re lations of ber own and a heap of money, and leaving his establishment " for good and all" in his absence, a UetU too much for human nature, as he declared; For Mr. Squimps did not disdain to descend to to "familiar colloquialisms" once in a while as a relief from the high mental strain of too much Latin and lexicon. Mr. Squimps Bhould have been a publio speaker so his wife declared, so all his friends affirmed only the troublo was be would never have known when to stop. There was no "cork up" to him the girls declared. ' Once given a little rope, a little vexation, an accidental jarring of his ar rangements, and Mr. Squimps flowed out into limitless rivers of rhetoric lie argued his point down to the last whittle, wound up splendidly, touched up his side whisk ers, looked rouud for applause, turned over bis wristbands, and before you know it, began again. -'This was a splendid opening this of Amanda Liza's a girl whom he had taken out of " pure charity when her folks died of fever, a girl whom he had educated, brought up in his very family, and and and Mr. Squimps felt himself possessed on this occasion of all the stock in trade nec essary for an orator. "And Mr. Sqnimps like a father to her too 1" cried Mrs. Squimps elevating her shriveled little hands. ' Mrs. Squimps was a small wrinkled lady, rustling of an afternoon in a stiff, volumi nous silk, so little, so shriveled, she seemed to rattle in it as she walked, like a shrivel ed kernel in a walnut shell. She had the benefit of Mr. Squimp's eloquence the greater part of life, and was much like a worn-out text thin and thumbed and faded. The good lady was humbly aware of her deficiencies. A mere bit of quartz, she did not attempt to shine even in ber husband's refulgence. All real authority in her de partment was delegated to Miss Bimm, who carried things with an air, taught "higher branches" and took the lead. Mrs. Squimps meekly took the kitchen, eminently fitter, as her husband declared, for that department, which was the foun dation of all others. The foundation, pre pared under Mrs. Squimps supervision, was not very substantial. , But elegance was the aim, gentility the law at the acado mjy as Mr. Bquimpuobserved, and no one asked twice for the same dish. An army of hungry girls, be remarked privatoly to Mr. Squimps, would devour all before them unless properly restrained. Under this aspect sour bread and chilled pancakes were judicious. , Amanda Liza, the girl about whom we were all just now in a furor, had assisted Mrs. Squimps and the maids in the kitchen of a morning, likewise of an evening ; be tween these she generally sandwiched the thin hour of study which was denominated her "education." She was a slim droop ing little thing, who never spoke up for herself; aud if Jake hadn't spoken up for her once in a while, I think she would scarcely have held her own even under Mrs. Squimps motherly sway, "Old Jake," as we called him, was a black-eyed, ragged lad of eighteen, the the factotum of the school-general fag, boot black, and boy-of-all work to the es tablisbment, with an occasional elevation to coachman. Jake was subject to a state of cbroulo outbreak, restive, forgetful of rules, and " dreadful sassy," the maids declared. But Jake bad his Ideal, and that ideal was Mis Mandy Liza. Her pale, patient face, her soft, quiet voice, were potent with him. The girl was really poorer than Juko, lower in the scale, and with no apparent chance of rising from her bondage ; but she recited with the young ladies, and it was Jake's high ambition to help her through with her chores and get her into class. .. Jake's guardianship of the girl was an acknowl edged fact in the school and village round about. - No boy dared play any tricks on Amanda Liza. " Jest you wait till I get my luck, an' I'll tench you !" was Jake's admonition, accompanied with a clinching of his sturdy list that ably seconded the argument. The girl took it very quietly in her gen tle way, and seemed to have a kindly re gard for Jake mending his coat occasion ally, or darning his stockings a thing Jake gallantly declared " She shouldn't do never again ; ho wouldn't have no ladies waitin' on him." Ladios ! The girls used to nudge each other and smile ; but for all that they were very good to Amanda Liza, whose faded dress and meek ways set ber apart from tho noisy youthfulness of the rest of us. . We never begrudged tho extra polish which Jake in his capacity of boot-black bestowed upon her shoes ; and we did not laugh when these samo shoes made their appearanco one day adorned with a pair of resplendent steel buckles, which were afterwards dis covered to have been abstracted from tho coachman's rig, in which Jake occasionally did duty, and to which, I am sorry to add, he was ignominiously obliged to restoro thorn. Occasionally on some rare holiday, we girls had tho privilege of a drive out into the counti'y, when tho Squimps' superan uatcd sorrel, covered with an elaborate nottincr to conceal its deficiencies, and pricking up its tasscled ears with quite a show of spirit, would set off on a brisk trot, animated no doubt, by the prospect of a greasy nibblo along the road. Gay times wcro those. Jako was at his Jolliest, and we all old Dobbin included forget our " short comings" and long lectures, and grew hilarious together. Even poor Aman da Liza, quietly stowed away in tho back seat, brightened up in tho sunlight, and was meekly merry. Once I remember old Dobbin cantered along so briskly that he unset tho whole party on a mossy bit of rising ground, and whisking his long tail facetiously, quietly betook himself to past ure, while we picked ourselves up as best wo could. " We might have had worse luck," said Jake, as ho picked Amanda Liza, out of the hoap, shook her out, and wiped the dust from her black apron, leaving the rest of tho party to look after themselves, which we did, scolding and laughing by turns, and giving, quito by accident, the front seat beside Jake to Amanda Liza the rest of the way. Ah 1 tho twilight that sum mer evening was warm and mellow, the fields were gilded, the meadows fragrant, and wo heard a refrain of the grand eternal poem on the jolting seat of the old wagon, though Jake was silent the rest of the way, looking furtively now and then at the girl beside bim, and being very attentive to old Dobbin. Poor Jake I Amanda Liza had shot up clean out of his reach since then, and what we wanted to know was whether the girl would remember him now in the days of her elevation. A wealthy uncle, a splendid home, and money on her own account ah 1 no won der we had not seen Amanda since. " They touched her off like a sky-rocket and she vanished," said Jake ruefully. Had she vanished for good?" Then poetical justice was a myth, and Amanda's patched shoes and faded dresses were no more worthless thau sho. We waited. We watched the windows furtively. We prick ed up our ears at every riug of the door, but weeks passed, aud the golden ooucb- and-six in which our Ciudcrilla was to arrive did not rattlo up to the Squimps Academy. I thiuk we had almost given it up, and Amanda Liza's baso forgetfulnes and in gratitude were becoming an old story, when one day at noon Jake came rushing among us, hot and shining, and holding between his thumb and forefinger a dainty billet. lie looked like an embodied 41 har- rah" at that moment. liut to tell the truth, Jake oould not quite make out the writing, for with all his "opportunities," as our worthy principal designated his vicinage to wisdom and learning in the capacity of shoe-blaok, the lad was unable to decipher manuscript hadn't the patience, he deolared. Jenny Smith read tho letter for him amid general applause. Justice and righteous ness had triumphed, it appeared, and Amanda Liza had proved herself a "regular brick," as Jenny ' with brimming eyes. observed, handing back the precious scrap of paper to Jake, who carefully wrapped it in his ragged handkerchief. The letter contained a brief invitation to the lad, urg. ihg him to come and see his old friend. A day was appointed for the visit, and the street and number where she was to be found were written iu a round, school-girl hand, A fashionable and wealthy quarter of the city, where Jake was not likely to be very familiar. . . , . Jake sat himself at work without loss of time at blacking his boots, albeit the ap pointed day was somewhere about a week ahead. But it would take a deal of fixing he explained confidentially, to get ready, and he hadn't much to fix with. Jake's normal condition was that of a dandy cer tainly. He could only, as a general thing, be sure by tho prospect of a drive to "red himself up," as Mrs. Squimps said. To bo ragged and let alone was his heaven. But this timo he rose to the greatness of the occasion he brushed and scoured, washed out his solo white shirt, dusted and straight ened his battered old hat, and mended his trousers. , 1,1 Deeply Interested in Jake's fortunes, we watched the proceedings. ' "But Jake," said Jenny Smith one day, " what are you to do for a coat?" Unhappy suggestion 1 Jake looked aghast. Ho hadn't thought of that. Cer tainly he couldn't make bis appearance in that overgrown coachman's rig, in which he was wont to Illustrate tho academical respectability on tho road. And ho had nothing else. No necessity had ever be fore dovelopcd itself for anything save Blilrt sleeves and a woolen jacket. An awful pause came over our delibera tions for Jake. Miss Smith whistled, and finally suggested her water-proof we all wore ready to fling ours at his feet but Jake couldn't go muffled like an Italian brigand. Ho shook his head. Night closed without any solution of the difficulty, but we trusted that somehow tho lad's quick wit would fiud away out of it. The next morning, however, a new sen sation turned us from the contemplation of Jake's disasters. The house had been robbed. We were all terribly scared, and Mr. Squimps was in a fever of declamation and wrath. His coat, his bcst-bcloved blue-black coat, in which ho was wont to dignify trustee meetings, ornament his pew of a Sunday, and pay visits of state to his patrons his coat had been stolen I His coat, a man so devoted to tho interests of education that ho scarcely had timo to go to the tailor's ; to think that an ungrateful unappreciative, idle world should have per mitted him to bo robbed. He raved, ho stormed, ho threatened vengeance, he lectured us on the degeneracy of the times, and forgot our Latin. i Vague forebodings of lurking assassins, masked robbers, and frequent skirmishes into the wardrobe aud dormitories about this time kept us all in a nervous flurry, to the exclusion of all thought of Juke. But late one twilight afternoon, as wo sat huddled in the windows of the long school room waiting the suppor bell, we saw him issue from the out-house. Oh horror ! Oh, apparition of terror 1 For with its tails nearly touching the ground, its long sleeves overlapping bis hands, Jako wore without a doubt, the missing coat, boldy marching in his stolen finery down toward tho road in sight of us all. In sight of sharper eyes, too, it secmod, for not far from the house Mr. Squimps himself pounced upon bim. Poor, kind, light-hearted Jake 1 We held our breath that day and the next, for Jake had been marched off to prison, and Mr. Squimbs' eloquence and mortality were in full flow. Ho said a longer grace than ever at dinner, aud we were glad when, hungrily eyeing the scauty board, we heard the visitor's bell summon him to the par lor. I think we were iu better appetite thau usual that day, aud left little behind us for our . Mentor as we filed up stairs toward the Kchool-room. Passing tho par lor door there rushed out upon us a little figure a trailing silk dress and a bonnetful of nodding French flowers. It was Aman da Liza. " Oh, girls," sho cried, hysterically, bo. wildored with an apparent desire to em brace the whole troop. " Poor J ake 1'" Mr. Squimps, tall and solemn, rose with dignity, aud closed the parlor door upon their further conference. We heard thorn make thU consoling remark: " I always knew ho u como to no good." It seemed that Amanda had learned of Jake's mishap through some stray news paper, where the well-known name of the virtuous and vengeful Squimps had met hor eye. She comprehended the situation, and came to the academy to plead for her old friend. We waited the news of Juke's fate breathlessly, nodding and whispering among ourselves. For there would be a trial of something terrible, of course we hardly knew what. Mr. Squmps was away all the afternoon, tho classes were demoralized, and we stood idly gazing out of the window at four o'clock, when a car riage came up the drive. . To our amaze- meut Jake sat on the box, elate aud erect. He sprang down aud opened the door with a flourish, and out stepped Mr Squimps. "The girl pleaded so hard that I have decided not to prosecute," , said Mr, Squimps ; and if a splendid new coat fresh from the tailor's and a plump silken course of unknown manufacture had anything to do with this decision we were not informed of it. " And I'm going to live with Miss Man da Liza forever I" cried Jake, when he came among us, his face lit with a glory as if he were departing for heaven, i : Would Amanda Liza dress him in a bluo coat and brass buttons, and make him her coachman at good wages? Ah, what rise for poor Jake 1 Amanda Liza was his saint, his angel, the hem of whose gar ment he touched reverentially. There was no commonplace element about such love as this, and Jako would bo content to let down her carriage-steps and look after her ponies all the days of his life, we thought. And that was the last we Baw of him at the Squimpses'. But years after, when I was traveling in Australia with my husband, Mr. Smith and myself were invited to the ranch of the magistrate there, whose broad estates covered miles of mountain and meadow, and who owned almost literally " the cattle upon a thousand hills." In the lady of the mansion, a delicate and dainty personage, I recognized with a cry of sur prise and delight my old school-mate, Amanda Liza ; but I did not know the portly dignitary upon whose arm she hung until I heard her laughingly whisper "Oh, Jake, don't you remember old Squimps's ?" Juckuiaii's Dog. TNSIGN JACKMAN was a Vermont J farmer. Ho had a good dog, that for some reason bore half of his own name, being plain Jack ; and it would bo no reflection on tho old man s sense if wo should say that the creature knew half as much as he did. Jack man once owed his life to Jack and it all came about by bis taking him with him to his wood-lot, which was a good way distant from bis huose. Almost every day during tue winter tno farmer and tho dog went off togcthar, always re turning safely with the great loads of wood until one afternoon, as they were jogging homeward, the sled canted on a stone, aud tho uppermost log on the load rolled off on the ensign's side, taking him unawares, knocked him down, and held him there wedged in between the runner and a huge boulder which almost overhung the path, As ho full he instinctively shouted "Whoa I" to the oxen ; and they stopped at once, then and there. If they had start ed at all, tho sidling log would have been precipitated upon his head ; but, trained and most obedient of creatures, like all good oxen, they minded what was said to them, and halted, with the topling logs ready to roll off" at the first movement. But, though they might stand there all tho afternoon, as probably they would, when night drew near they would go home. Be sides, there was no heip in them. While this had been happening, Jack had deen off careering about the woods, hunting bares and starting up partridges, and having a most delightful time ; but now when tho ensign whistled for him, he came bounding back to the sled, saw what had happened, and that he could not get at his master, and started for home with the speed of a race-horse. Mother Jackman saw him coming down the road, and ho seemed to her to be almost flying. His lameness did not hinder bim then. He cleared the ground like a doer running for his life. She knew that some- thing was the matter, and rushed to the door ; but, instead of stopping there, he shot past and kept straight on, by several bouses and shops, to the shoemaker's. Meanwhile she caught up a shawl and started for tho woods. Jack had evidently gone through with some reasoning which hi ought him to tho conclusion that it was a case in which woman could not help, not even his own mistress. Aud so he sped by everybody else to the one man who bad befriended him. lie burst into the presence of the sboo- maker, pulled at his shirt sleeves, and ran to the door whining. The man put on his coat and followed. At the grocery store, next door, ho stopped long enough to toll of the dog's conduct ; then borrowed horse and sleigh which stood waiting while the ownor was making purchases, and drove on after Jack. Men came out along tho rood until there was quite a party on the way, some in sleighs and some on foot. When the old lady was overtaken, she was picked up and conveyed along. Jack lod the way. There stood the patient oxen in their tracks ; they had not lifted so much as one of their feet in all that timo. And there lay the ensign. quite insensible now, just where he had fallen. lHf The pew rent of Plymouth Church iu 1859 was 111, 157 ; in 18.10, (20,000 ; in 1808, $18,000; in 1872, $30,000. In 1808, quartette was iutroduced In the choir whose aggregate salaries with that of the organist are $7,000. Ho v. 8. B. Halliday, who assists in the pastoral work, and the sexton receive $7,700. The salary of Mr. Buccher was at first, iu 1847, $1,500 ; it is now $20,000 making the whole amount of salorles $35,000. The number of members in 1847 was 21 ; and in 1873 was 8,300, The number of Sunday-school pupils is 1,810, besides 800 connected with mission schools. There are several deaconesses elected annually who receive no salary. tSTTo live long it is necessary to live lowly. Never Known to Fail! 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Md, M-We will pay strict attention to the sale of al kinds of country produce, and remit the amount promptly. 6341y Neiv Pension Lmv. UNDF.lt an act of Congress approved March 3. lH7:t, widows of oflUwrs who were killed, or died of disease contracted In the service, are now entitled to 12.00 per month for each of their chil dren. The guardian of a minor child of a soldier who heretofore only received SH.uo per month peuslon Is now entitled to 111), per moth. Soldiers who receive Invalid pensions ca now have their pensions increased to any sum or rate between 18. ami 318. iter month. Holdiers who have lost their discharges can now Obtain duplicates. Fathers and mothers who lost sons In the serv ice upon whom they were dependent for support, can also obtain ienslons, The undersigned having had over 10 years ex IK'l ienee iu the Claim agency business will atteiui promptly to claims under the above act. Call ou or address , LEWIS POTTKK, Attorney for Claimants, New Bloomtleld, 7 2011. 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