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Ijc tmc5, New Blaomftcfo, JJa.
JUST WHAT SHE DESERVED.
, A Lesson Tor Many People.
fcfc"T"vO YOU intend, Alice, to take that
1 satchel and lunch-basket and bird
cage and plant and water-proof cloak bo
many things along with you In your car
scat?" " Yes, sir, I must.' ' '
Y!hy must you, Alice ? It is not cold
to-day, and there is no danger of its rain
ing. You will not need your cloak, and
you probably will not unstrap it. Can't
you put it in your trunk, or manage somo
how to take fewer bundles into your seat
with you?"
" No, Uncle John, I cannot. 5Iy trunk
is crammed so full now that I fear the lock
will burst."
" Well, Alice, if you must take so many
packages with you, I want to suggest to
you to be careful how you dispose of them.
Don't attempt to occupy two seats, when
you have paid for only one, if some one else
wants the other."
"That will depend greatly, Uncle John,
upon who it is that wants a scat with mo,"
replied Miss Alice, with a haughty toss of
her head. "I certainly shall not put my
things under my feet nor load my lap un
comfortably to accommodate some ordinary-looking
man or fussy old woman.
One half of the men now-a-days would just
as lief oblige a youug lady to do it as not.
They are not gallant at all ; they ought to
be ashamed of themselves. I have heard
women good women they wero too say
that the scat beside thorn was engaged,
when they had got their things placed and
didn't wish to remove them, because
they didn't fancy the looks of the person
who wautcd the scat, when I knew that
they had no friend that was coming in to
take the place. I didn't blame them at
all, Uncle John. I shouldn't hesitate to
say the same myself under the circum
stances. It wouldn't be telling an untruth.
If all of these packages were on it, it
would be taken, wouldn't it ?"
"Pshaw 1 pshaw! Alice. Is that you
advocating such stuff as that ?' ' exclaimed
her undo, in surprise and indignation.
" I, too, have seen women and girls, and
occasionally a man, who acted upon that
principle ; but I had serious doubts of their
goodness. I never dreamed before, Alice,
that you were so selfish and unprincipled as
to think of doing such a thing. If a man
ought to feel ashamed to take a seat for
which he has honestly, paid, how ought a
young lady to feel who would not scruple
to practice gross deception for the sake of
retaining, for her own convenience, a scat
to which she has no claim whatever. If
I were willing to do such a thing, my re
spect for myself would be about as little as
it would be if I wished to steal from a
passenger as much money as ho had paid
for his car-fare. It will bo fully half an
hour, Alico, before Mike gets bore with tho
carriage. While we are waiting, I will toll
you a little incident that transpired in the
car wheu your Aunt Ruth and I went to
Richmond, last fall. We had a scat in the
rear end of the car. The first scat in front
of us was occupied by a young lady just
about your ago, Alice, judging from her
looks. She was richly dressed and I think
would bo called a handsome girl ; butihere
was something both in her looks and man
ner that was not pleasing to me, even be
fore I had heard her spoak or hardly seen
her move. If any one bad asked me what
I disliked in her, it would have been dif
ficult to tell ; yet there was an intangible
something about her which gave me the
impression that she had no idea that the
Golden Rule Whatsoever ye would that
others should do to you do yo even so to
them' was intended for such as she. She
probably thought, Alice, that that divine
injunction was given for common people
' ordinary-looking men and fussy old
women.' "
" Your Aunt Ruth said that she believed
that about all Summorville were going
somewhere that morning, the cars were so
rapidly filled. It is always amusing to me
to observe the difference in the dispositions
and manners of the people who are seated
while others are passing through looking
for unoccupied scats. I know of no better
place in which to study human nature than
the cars. I think that I have seen more
curious phases of it while riding In them
than I ever saw in any other place. I
observed the young lady in front of me that
morning with more interest than I did any
other person, because I wanted to ascer
tain whether I was correct or not in tho
opinion whioh I had so hastily formed of
her.
" One of the last passongerg who came
in was a white-haired, tottering old man.
He looked to the right and left of him for
a vaoaut seat, as he passed down the aisle,
leaning on his staff. I glanced ahead, but
could see no placo where he could get a
seat, except with the young lady of whom
I have been telling you. I hoped that
some young man would give up his seat to
the poor old gentleman and find one for
himself in auother car; for I wts sure tho
young lady would not make room for him,
if she could avoid it. Bhe had about as
many packages as you intend to take with
you, Alice, and she had ananged them all
on the seat beside her with such nicety
that it gave them a peculiarly touch-me-
not appearance. I thought of asking her
if Bhe had noticed that decrepit old man
who was looking for a seat, thinking she
might possibly remove her packages if I
should. But I had the curiosity to see
what she should do of her own accord, so I
refrained from speaking, and intended to
give him my place If he did not secure one
before he came to me. No doubt some of
the people whom he passed would have
given him thoir's if they had not observed
that there wat a Vacant seat beside the
young lady. As the old gentleman drow
nearer to ns, Bhe turned her head and look
ed out of the window. I must confess,
Alice, that I was rather glad, on the wholo,
that no one had moved for him. - I wanted
to see how far her selfishness would carry
her. ;
"Two men one middle-aged, the other
younger sat in the seat directly opposite
the young lady. From a few words that I
caught of their conversation, I learned that
the younger man was a carpenter, and I
thought it quite probable that they both
were. Tho middlo-aged man sat noxt to
tho aisle, and I noticed that he was observ
ing the young lady quite as cloudy as I
was.
His face was not a very demonstrative
one ; but once or twice I detected an
amused twinkle in his eyes and a slight
eurl on his lips when he glanced at her.
When the old man came against the young
lady, stopped and looked first . at hor
bundles and then at her. But she didn't
see him. Oh 1 no. She was looking out
of tho window and humming a tune. lie
didn't speak but he drew a long breath,
that was half a sigh and he looked deject
ed and weary, aud was about to pass along
when the middle-aged man opposite arose
and said respectfully ; 'Take my seat, sir.'
lie kindly helped him into it, at the
same time glancing at the young lady and
saying : ' I can find another for myself,
or I can stand.' Bhe did not turn hor head
nor show any signs of hearing him. So he
walked the whole length of tho car, looking
for a vacant scat ; but, of course, with no
success, and it is not at all probable that he
expected to find one when he started. As
he came back toward us, tho twinkle in his
eyes and tho curl on his lips were a little
more marked than they were before, but
there was less amusement in the expres
sion and more indignation. Probably nono
of the passengers except those who had ob
served him watching the young lady notic
ed it. I was satisfied, however, from his
looks, that he intended to give that self
ish, disobliging young lady a lesson, and I
soou found that I was not mistaken, lie
came directly to her, and, gently touching
her shoulder (she was still looking out of
the window,) he said :
"Shall 1 placo some of these bundles up
in tho rack for you, young lady 1 I can
find" no other Boat in this car that is not
occupied by some porson."
" You will please to leavo my things
where they are," she snappishly replied.
'I presume that there are plenty of vacant
Boats in tho rear car. A gentleman would
go and look for one, and not disturb a lady
in this way.'
" By this time all the passengers near
were looking on and listening intently to
see what would come next. At her crusty
reply he put on an exceedingly abashed
look, and stammered :
"Ob! I beg your pardon young lady, I
had no idea that I was about to encroach
npon your rights. I did not suppose that
you had paid for both of these seats. But
you have, of course ; for nothing could have
been clearer than that a lady would never
speak to a man as you spoke to me if she
were not entitled to both. If you will
please show me your tickets for tho two or
will give me your word that you have paid
for thorn both I will go anywhere will
stand crowded into any corner sooner than
disturb you again."
"She neither showed tickets nor deigned
to reply. So he carefully romovod ber
things and took the seat, telling her that
whenever she or the conductor informed
him that he had not the same right to it
that she had to the one which she was oc
cupying he would vacate it the next in
stant. All of the passengers who had
observed what was going on smiled ap
provingly and one or two laughed aloud ;
and the old man nodded bis head em
phatically and whispered to the young
carpenter : "That is just what sho de
served." " The young lady tucked back her dress
disdainfully and looked scornfully at tho
man beside her, and I thought sho was
about to say something vindiotive ; but,
if she was, she was prevented by a gen
tleman's rushing up to the window where
she sat and exclaiming :
" I came near not getting back to say
'good-bye,' Clara. Here are the books
that you wanted. Tho bookstore was
olosed and I had to wait nearly ten minutes
before it wag opened. I'm sorry it has so
happened that I cannot accompany you.
I hope that you will have a pleasant ride
and get to the seminary without any
trouble."
" A pleasant ride !" she repeated, sar
castically ; then putting her head partly
out of the window, Bhe whispered, suf
ficiently loud for those in the adjoining
seats to her to bear her, and no doubt with
the special intent of humiliating the man
who hud the audacity to remove her things
ana toko a sent ucsiae nor i "1 snail nave a
lovely time, you may be sure of that,
father. An inuolont old : carpenter has
crowded himself into the seat with me,
and" ( ' v ;
" She was out short in her remarks by
the moving off of the train. Soon after the
train started, that ' insolent old carpenter'
turned toward her, and said, as complacent
ly as he would have done if he had not
heard her epithets :
".Your father's voice sounded familiar to
me, young lady, and I wag about to rise
and see if I knew bim when the cars moved
out of the depot. Will you give me his
name ?" '
"No, sir, I will not," she haughtily re
plied. " I am not in the habit of holding
conversation with strangers."
" Oh ! ah 1 picaso excuse me," he said,
unable to repress a smile. 'Perhaps we
shall make each other's acquaintance
sometime. Then we will convorse."
" lie did not speak to her again until we
reached Richmond. When the conductor
called out the name of the station, she
hastily arose, and, gathering up her pack
ages, which wore rather more than she
could conveniently raanago, said, imper
atively :
"Lot me pass out."
" Certainly, young lady," he pleasantly
replied. 'I stop here myself. You seem
to be burdened with packages. Allow me
to take some of them out of the car for
you." .
" She did not reply in words ; but she
threw back hor bead and looked intensely
disgusted that he should offer to touch hor
things. Ho evidently tried to suppress a
smile as he turned around and crossed over
to the young carpenter. On account of
your Aunt Ruth's lamonsss, we sat quiotly
in our seats, waiting for tho other passen
gers to go out, before I holped her out. So
I had nothing to do but to observe what
was going on around me. Tho young
lady's packages troubled her, and she was
obliged to pause a moment to arrange
them. Before Bhe passed out of her scat,
a young lady about her ago rushed in to
meet her. After the accustomed saluta
tions between young ladies, tho newcomor
dropped down upon the seat and exclaim
ed :
"Oh! Clara, my breath is nearly gone,
I did not get your letter until fifteen min
utes ago, and I hurried every step of the
way here, for fear that I should be too late
to meet you. I am delighted that you de
cided to enter the seminary here. Where
In the world did you fall in with our prin
cipal, and where is he now? Has he gone
to got a carriage for you ?"
"Iam sure I don't know what you mean,
Grace," she replied. 'I haven't seen the
principal.'
" Haven't scon him I" said Miss Grace,
with an amazod look. "Of course, you
have seen him. When I first caught a
glimpse of you from tho car-door, you and
he wero standing together in this seat and
be was speaking to you."
"Oh ! no, Grace. Your eyes could not
have served you aright," said the selfish
young lady, who had carried herself dis
agreeably and haughtily, with a good doal
of agitation and a very red face. " It can
not be possible that the man whom you
saw talking to me was Mr. Gaylord. You
suroly must be trying to play a joke on me.
I beg of you to tell mo that it was not
he."
" I caunot, my dear ; for it certainly was
he," replied MJss Grace. " Why, what is
the matter, Clara ? Didn't you like him?
If you did not, I am sure you will when
you become acquainted with him. no is
one of the most refined and agreeable meu
in the world, aiid his wife is just as agree
ablo as he is. I thought that you wore one
of the most fortunate of girls whon your
father told me that they had consented to
take you to board. I wish that I were iu
your place."
"You'd wish you were anywhere but iu
my place if you knew what '
"Miss Grace interrupted her iu her scn
touce by exclaiming :
"Why, here is Mr. Gaylord now."
"Mr. Gaylord," Bhe said, as he was
passing, without looking toward them,
" this young lady, whom you were speaking
to a few moments ago, is my friend, Miss
Clara Evans, whom we wero expecting to
day." " Ho turned, and, stopping into the seat
in front of them, gave his hand to tho
young lady and said :
" How do you do, Miss Evans? It gives
me pleasure to make your acquaintance.
When I first saw you, with your books and
packages, I felt pretty sure that you was
the young lady whom we expected down
from Summervillo this morning, aud as
soon as I heard your fathor's voice 1 was
confirmed iu my opinion. Now that you
know mo, Miss Evans, aud know that I am
not a carpenter, you will permit mo to take
your tilings for you and soe you into a
carriage, will you not?"
" As he stooped and took her packages
from her, he asked, iu a low tone :
" Have you ever thought, Miss Evans,
that it would be well for the revisors of the
New Testament to omit to state iu the new
revision that Christ was a carpenter? You
know gonaj people might feel so much
greater reverence for him if they did not
know that humiliating fact."
"She stood like one transfixed and
neither answered his question nor objoctod
to his taking all of her bundles. Then she
moekly followed him out of the cars. Her
face was crimson and she looked so titterly
crestfallen that your tonder-hearted aunt
said that she could not help pitying her,
richly as she merited the lesson. But I
could not pity her, Alico, she hod shown
such a thoroughly selfish and' disagreeable
spirit. And I wished that the white-headed
old man bad remained in tho car long
enough to witness hor discomfiture. I
think that he would have said again :
'That is just what she dosorved. And I
told your aunt so, and she said that she
hoped that the poor girl would so profit by
that day's experience that she would never
deserve to be so humiliated again."
"And I hope, Uncle John," said Alice,
in a softened and subdued tono, as Mike
came up to the door with the carriage,
"that I never again shall morit tho rebuke
convoyed in your story."
A Salary Crabber Flanked.
COL. ORZO J. DODDS, late member
of Congress from the First District of
Ohio, tolls a good story about a call he re
cently received at his office from a man
who claimed to be an editor from Arkansas,
lie was a very seedy looking chap, and ap
peared as though he had but recently came
off from about a six weeks' spree. Bowing
profoundly, then striking an attitude, with
one hand on his heart and the other ex
tending a badly used plug hat, he exclaim
ed with a dramatio air :
" Have I tho honor of addressing the
Hon. Orzo J. Dodds ?'
"My name is Dodds, but I am no longer
an Honorable," said the Colonel.
"Not an Honorable? Dodds not an
Uonorablo ? Now, by St. Paul, when I can
scan that honest face, on which all the
gods do seem to set their soal ('Green
seal,' murmured Dodds to himself) I read
nothing dishonorable"
"That's right," said Dodds: "never
read anything dishonorable. - But to busi
ness." " Yes, as you say, to business. I am a
printer I might say, with no unbecoming
blush, an editor. I am from the noble
State of Arkansas, the only State, by the
way, able and willing to support two
governments at the same time. But I have
beon unfortunate. Much have I been
tossed through the ire of cruel Juno,
and"
"Juno how it is yourself," broke in the
Colonel.
" Buffeted by tho world's rude storms,
you see me here a stranded wreck. Scarce
three months past I loft my office in charge
of my worthy foreman, aud sought the
peaceful vales and calm retreats of the
Muskingum valley, whore my childhood
sported. Returning, I stopped iu Cincin
nati. I full into evil company and but
why dwell on details. Enough that I am
what I am disheartened, ruined, broke !
A mark for scorn to point her slow, uner
ring finger at. As I was about to give up
in despair, having given up everything
else I had, I thought of you. Sir, I am
bore. You have not sent for me, but I
have come I Your narao, sir, is known and
honored from one end of this great Repub
lio to the other. It
Glows in the stars,
Refreshes in the breeze,
Warms In the sun,
And blossoms on the fees.
Whon the National Treasury was threaten
ed by a horde of greedy Congressmen, you
stood like a wall of adamant between the
people and those infamous salary grabborB,
Lend me a dollar "
" My dear sir," the Colonel hastened to
explain, "you mistake the case entirely. I
was one of the grabbers."
"You were?" (Grasping the Colonol's
baud warmly.) " So much the better ! Let
me congratulate you that a parsimonious
publio could not frighten you out of what
was a fair remuneration for your invaluable
services. I am glad that your pecuniary
circumstances aro so much better than I
supposed. Make it two dollars !"
And tho Colonel did. It was the only
clean thing loft for him to do.
Don't Weep Julia.
Tho habit of hanging mackerel on a nail
near tho door to drip broke up a match on
Essex street, a short time sinco. The
couple got homo late in the evening, and,
going around back of. the house, as not to
disturb the folks, they sat down on the
stoop to think. During the progress she
leaned ber head, iu a now spring hat,
against tho ho use, and bocame absorbed in
the stars and other improvements, while
he iendorly eyed his boots. About half an
hour was spent in this profitable occupation
when the youug man felt something trickle
down his neck. " Don't weep, Julia," ho
softly murmured. " I ain't," she said,
surprised. He looked up and his eyes
rested ou an oozy substauce back of her
head. " What's that on the back of your
hat?" ho cried. She .lumped ud at this
interrogation, and instinctively placing her
hand on the the buck of her bead, drew it
away again full of an unpleasantly flavored
slime. With a shriek of rage and passion
the infuriated girl tore the mackorel from
the nail, and trampled it beneath ber foot,
while she snatched off her hat and tore it
in shreds with her livid fingers. Tbe hor
ror stricken young man not knowing what
else to do, jumped the first fence and dis
appeared, and hasn't beon seen since.
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Policies Issued by this Company are non-forfeit
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No extra charges are made for traveling permits.
Policy-holders sliaro In the animal protttsof the
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J. F. EATON,
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College Block, Harrlsburg, Pa,
THOS. H. MILLIGAN.
6 42 ly Special Agent for Newport.
llEAlT ESTATE
At Private Sale.
The nndorslgned will sell at private sale his val
uable farm situate In Juniata township, Perry co.,
Pa., adjoining lands of George Tiiell, George
Ickes and others, containing
91 AGUES,
of Bed Slate land, about 75 Acres are cleared.Snd
In a high state of cultivation. The balance Is
well set with timber.
The Improvements are a good two story Log
and Weatherboarded
DWELLING HOUSE,
LARGE BANK BARN,
TENANT HOUSE, CATtRfAriE HOUSE, NEW
HOG PEN aud WOOD HOUSE. ,
There is also a Well of good water near the
house.
There are also TWO GOOD APPLE ORCH
AKD8 on this farm, with a variety of other fruit
trees. This property Is near the villago of Maikle
vllle In a good neighborhood.
Any person desiring to purchase a home, should
see this property before making a final invest
ment. Price $5,000 payments, 82.000 on the 1st of
April, 1874, at which time a deed will be delivered,
aud possession given. The balance to be paid in
thrceeuual annual payments, with interest, to be
secured by Judgment bonds.
C'all on or address
JACOB KLINE,
Alarklevllle, Perry co., Fa.,
on
LEWIS POTT EH,
2" New Bloomfleld, Perry co.. Pa.
BALL SCALES!
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. JAMES H. GHIEll. known as
' The Ball Scale Company,"
have now on hand a large supply of Ttuoy's Patent
COUNTER SCALE, (he Simplest, Cheap
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Ohio, New Jersey. Delaware and Maryland, ad
dress The Kail Scale Company," l'ottsville,
Schuylkill county, Pa. ,
!?- y,or Hne or Agencies In this County, ap
ply to the undersigned, where they can be seen
and examined any time.
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Newport, Perry oo.. Pa.
FRANK MOKTIMEit.
New liloomtleld, Perryco.,Pa.
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Mutual Fire Insurance Company,
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LfeWIS POTTER,
JN1SW lJLOOMl'TELD, PA.,
4 16
Agent for Perry County.
LOOK OUT!
I would respectively Inform my friends that I In
tend calling upon them with a supply of good
of my
OWN MANUFACTURE.
Consisting of
CASSIMERS,
OASSINETS,
FLANNELS, (Plain and bar'd)
CAltPETH, &o.,
to exchange for wool or sell for cash.
J. M. HIXLEH.
CENTltK WOOl.KM FACTOhY. 6,17,4111
I. M. UIHVIN.
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M. GIHVIN dfc SON,
CommiMKilon 3Jei-oliant,
NO. 8, SPEAR'S WUAltF,
II a 1 1 1 m o r e . M 1 .
4. We will pay strlctnuttentlon to the sale of al
kinds of country produce and remit the amount
promptly. i 341y
Auctioneer. The undersigned civos
notice t hat he w ill cry sales at any point In T'arrv
or Dauplii counties. Orders are solicited and
prompt atlenllnu will be given.
WELLS,
New Buffalo,
Perry co.,Paj