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VOLUME XX, NO. 3-5.
MFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY", Pffi'A., DECBIEBEU MSGG.
WHOLE NUMBER 1023.
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TERMS OF PUBLICATION.
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H. H. WILSON.
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al numbers, half pric-t and for Itlanks, $2,oo
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Easiness Carts.
JEOTLiiF LYONS,
M: flintown, Juninta County. l'a.. Office
o:i M..iu street South of Bridge sir ct.
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1LLIAM M ALLISON',
Attorney at Law,
AND
Will attend ! nil business entrusted to hi
;nre. OIHcc on Main Street, MilHintown, l'a.
K. C. STEWART,
ATTOFa R EY-AT-LAW,
J!ijfi.r:i'iiri!, Juniata Co., l'it.,
Offers his profession "1 services to the puh
lio. Collections and all other business will
receive prompt attention. Office first door
North of liclf'ird's Store, (upstairs.)
JOHN T. L.SAIIM.
M1FKI.IXT0WN, JUNIATA COUNTV. PA.
CFFKl'.o his professional services to the
f public, l'rompt atietiiion given to the
vroseeu'inii of claims against the Ooveruinelit.
collections and all other business entrusted to
his cue- ():Hee in the Odd Fellows' Hal!,
liii.l".: .-Street
epi
l'l.
en due
v auctioneer
crik
The und -rsinc I offers his services to the
public as 'Vendue Crycr and Anctioueer. He
has had a very lirge experience, and feels
confident tint he can give natislaetion tc all
w!io may ciirpliy him. He may he addressed
at Mililiiiiorn, or found at his home in Fer
managh town-hip. Orders may also be left
at Mr. Will's Hotel.
Jan. 25, !. WILLIAM GIVEN.
MILITARY CLAIMS.
rpi!E undersigned will promptly attend to
X the collection of claims against either the
8tatc or National ijoveriimc-nt, Pensions, Back
I'ay, Bounty, Extra Pay. and all other claims
arising out of the present or any other war,
collected.
JEREMIAII LYONS,
Attorney -at-Law.
MifHinfown, Juniata Co., Ta. fcbl
AT KW TOBACCO STOBE. Just received
i at. Barnes' Cigar and Tobacco Piore. a
lre?h supply of pure Vara Cigars and Tobaccos.
J est Navy Tr lb.
J,l i!0c. " "
JirJ S0c. "
Oold Bar " "
Oranoke MO " ."
The best brauds Fine Cut loose and in foil,
iMid all kinds of Bright Tobacco at reduc
ed prices. The lovers of good chewing and
Mtioking tobacco arc respectfully invited to
call anil examine my stock.
.lore L'0-lf. A. T. CAUSES.
Rli:UlC4L. CARD.
Dn. S. f. K.EMI'FLR, (late army sur
geon) having located in Patterson tend
crs his professional services to the citizens of
this place and surrounding country.
Dr. K. having had eight years experience
in hospit 1, general, aud army practice, feels
prepared to request a trial front those who
inity b- so unfortunate as to need medical at
tendance. He wil". be found at the brick ouilding op
posite the "Skntixel Orrio," or at his resi
uence in the borough of Patterson, at all
hours, except when professionally engaged.
July IS'iS.-tf.
jy-lNTAL CAKU
M. K KEY Jill, DENTAL SURGEON
'rVXKES this method of informing his friends
JL iu Juniata county, that owing to the tea
Fonably good success he has met with, during
the few months he has been practising his pro
tVssiuu iu said county, he lecis warrmiteil in
nmking stated visits to Mittlinlown and Sic
Alistersvillc The first Monday of each month
Mr. Ki-ever may he found at I lie Juniata Un
til. M iiiliti. tc remain two weeks. The third
Monday, at McAlistersville, to remain during
the week. Teeth inserted on VULCANITE,
tifU.L .Vi SILVKIt. TEETH FILLED and
extracted in the most approved wanner, and
with th least possible paiti.
BjU Strict attention giTen to diseased
Fms, Sc. All work warranted. Terms
l eason.itile.
January 2t, lS06-tf.
JOSE I'll S. DELL,
CLOTHIER,
JCO 4". N OUT FT TIMRl) STREET, PHILAU'A
Clothing Mipcvior to any other establish
ment in the City Slid and at lower prices.
Merchants will find it to their advantage to
call. All goo.Is warrauted. Presi-nteil by
J. K. Snoyer. nor. 7 !y.
SONG.
On tee banks of a river was seated one day
An old man, and close by his si le
Was a child who hadpaused from his laugh
ing and play,
To gaze at the stream as it hurried away
To the sea, with the ebb of the tide.
'What see you, my child, in the stream as it
Sows
To the ocean so dark and deep?
Arc you watching how swift, yet how silent
it goes ?
Thus hurry our lives till they sink in repose,
And axe lost in a measureless sleep.
"Now listen, my boy ! you are young, I am
old,
And yet like to rivers are we.
Through the flood-tide of youth from Time's
ocean is roiled,
Tet it ebbs ail so soon and its waters grow
cold
As it creeps back again to the eca."
"But the river returns," cried the boy, while
his eyes
Ohjamed bright as the water below,
"Ah ! yes," said the old man, but time as it
flics
Turn the tide of our life, and it never can
rise."
"But first," said the boy, "it must flow."
Thus watching its course from the bank of
the stream,
They mused as they sat side by side,
Each read diifcreut tales in the river's bright
glea.n ;
One borne with the flaw of a gl rious dream,
Ami one going out with the tide.
Jllistdhncous Uafe.
A SOLDJHITS
We worked together in the datk black
smith shop. Hank and I. He was a great
broad shouldered young fellow, built like
a Hercules I, despite my toil, slender
and fair, and. never over stiong. Hank
made that his mock, until I had rather
have worn tbc skin ol a blackamoor than
the pink and white completion I took
from my mother, who was an English girl
by birth, and gave inc with her coloring,
her blue eyes.
I could jufft remember them watching
the fea for the ship that never came, that
never couid come, for it had gone down
amongpt th6 1'ermudas with my father on
its deck, one stormy night, long c.o itl.s
before. When they broke the news to
her in the coffin with a little eiiter, wh
had never lived, in her white arms.
The picture used to come back to me
ul.e:i in my elcp, after I was a man.
Then, and when Hank mocked me, and
when all the world seemed wretched and
cold as the stormy winter days we had so
many of, upon the Maine coast, I used to
find my way to the great kitchen fire to
comfort myself by taking a look at the
sweet face of Uetabell, my master's
daughter. There was always a touch of
sunlight there, however dark the day and
my soul.
ben it came upon me that no one
cared for me in all the world that I had
neither father, mother nor sister and all
the strange, smothered hopes I had ot be
ing learned, and great, and being .some
thing more than a mere drudge, made me
hate the forge I had but to talk a while
with Uetabell, and I found that at least
one had some love for me. She loved
everything and was too simple to hide it.
She never had a mother since her baby,
hood any more than I, and she did the
hous ;hi 1 J work with her own white hands.
Whatever there was of comfort, or neat
ness, or prcttincss in the house, was bro't
about by her, and she was never on the
sulks or in a temper.
Singing over a cross fire that would not
burn singing over the tub on washing
day singing at her sewing in the after
noon it was as sweet to hear her as a
bird ; though, after all, the tunes were
just the simple ones that every one knew,
and she had never learned the grace of
thrill or quaver.
Hank, with the great advantage of his
superior strength, had another over me,
Down in the village lived a rich uncle of
his a butcher near upon seventy years
of ago, and a bachelor. All he had would
come to Hank some day, and then he
would buy as big a farm as there was to
be bought, and marry whom he choose.
They thought a great deal of money in
th tt part of the world and Hank knew it.
For me who had been brought up by
the blacksmith out of charity, who had
no weilihv kia, or a:;J !.
of fortune,
the neighboring iarmers felt a kind
disdain and my master himself, contemp
tuous pity. As soon should the beggar
at the gate think of wooing Uetabell as I,
bound apprentice. But when he aad strange sound of feet and wheels and ma
drunk more ale than usual on Saturday I chinery which seemed the beating of its
night, he was in the habit of coupling
Hank's name with his daughter's, and
bringing the blushes to her face by talk
ing of the great wedding tbey should
have she and some one not far away step
ped off.
It used to make my blood boil to hear
him. You see I was in love with IIe:a
bell even before 1 knew it. So was Hank,
in his own brutal way. I was jealous of
him. He was not jealous of me, because
he had no fear of me, yet he hated me for
loving her. At last it came to blows be
tween us. He was twice my strength,
but somehow I mastered him for once,
and stretched him bleeding on the smithy
floor. He never forgave that. From
that moment my life was unbearable as
his coarse insult could make it.
I was just ont of my time. I was not
bound by law or right to stay at the
smithy. Yet I knew what questioning
and wondering there would be, and I re
solved to leave it quietly ; to tell no one
no one but Uetabell of my determi
nation. One eveuicg I met her in the meadow
where the cows were waiting to be milked
Red Sukey aud White Molly patient,
mild eyed brutes, who knew me, aud came
toward me with their slow, heavy steps.
The I utter-cups were thick iu the grass,
and the apple tree was rich with blossoms.
Under it we stood she and I.
"Uetabell." I said, "I am going away
from here I can't stand it any longer.
I've borne it a long while now. But there
U a point no man can pass. You kcow
that's come, Hetty, as well as I can tell
you."
"I know Hank is a brute," she said.
'And your father not too kind," I add
ed. She bent her head.
"I'm sure father likes you,' she said.
"He used to like me," said I, "perhaps
be might still, were I not in Hank's way."
"In bis way ?"
' Yes, Hetty. He is willing to give
you to him, or rather to tho butcher's
money, and he knows I want you for my
self."
I bent over her. I could not see her
eyes, for the lashes shaded them ; but I
saw the color on her round cheek deepen,
and took heart.
"Yes, Hetty," said I, "I do want you.
You are the only one thing worth having
in the world. I can't let Hank have it
all his own way without a word Can
you like me just a little, Hetty ?"
"I always have liked you, Jan," she
said.
"Better than Hank ?"
"Yes, Jan."
I put my arm about her waist and kiss
ed her. She was very shy about it, but,
for all that, she did not hinder me. Then
I Fai 1 :
"I'm going far away, Hetty I'm going
to try to make a roan and a gentleman of
myself. It may be years before I come
back, able to claim you; but you'll wait
for me, darling, won't you? aud make me
strong enough to fight the fight out, dar
ling?" "I'll never forget you," she answered,
"and I'll be very glad to write, Jan."
Then she began to weep. "It will bo
lonesome when yoa are gone," she said,
and I took her in my arms again.
I had always worn my mother's wedding
ring since I grew old enough to have it
given to me. Now I took it off my finger
and slipped it on her's, kissing finger and
ring together.
"God bless you, Uetabell," I said, "and
bring the time when I shall call you my
wife."
We parted that night. She came to
the gate with me and watched me in the
mocLiight out of sight.
I bad left a respectful note for my mas
ter aud had not wronged him of a penny
worth of work, for a week's wages were
due.
I had my little savings in my pocket,
my wardrobe iu a bundle over my suld
er, and I thought, as I trudged along, of
distinguished men of whom I had read,
who bad begun life as dumbly.
There is something in this world worth
having, I thought, besides flesh and mus
cle. There is a use of brains somewhere
if there was uutic at the saiuLy.
of , Aod I kept on with a 6tronu heart and J
p-'ct Tiopes' tVwhich only a bay's heart .
'can give birth, until I saw the roofs and
I I.;-!, nni;i T on (bo ror.fa tind
steeples of the city, and heard at last the
I monster heart.
l CVUUia uau X Jkuunu Wljab lay uctuio
me I should have turned back and sought
some other country .forge and prayed to
labor there; but all the weary conflict
shone in the future, gilt by Hope, on that
day.
Soon I began to realize how hard it is
even to earn bread in such a place. My
little money seemed to melt like ice be
neath the sun, for city prices of food and
lodging were enormous, to my fancy.
The time came when I suffered the pangs
of hunger aud slept in a church porch.
The time would have come soon when I
should have slept beneath whatever ground
was allotted or the last rest of the city
poor bi for tbat white-haired old Quaker
FiMnd, Andrew Thorne. He listeued to
V. -1 1, - 1 T 1- 1. I 1
i-ny btory and said this to me :
"It is a pity any one should want for
bread. It is a sin that any one should
want it who is willing to work. Come
with me, my friend, atJ I will give thee
employment."
So, from that day the worst was over
and I wrote to Hetabclle and had a letter
from her soon. It was more precious to
me than any other earthly th:ng could
have been.
I was ouly in pn bumble place iu a great
counting house, but I had the hope of
rising aud I was happy. At night 1
studied and every week I wrote to Hetty
and received an answer. So a year roiled
by and another. At the end of that time
I was better off, and had no fear but that
I should be able to keep a wife from
knowing what hardships were. I told
Uetabell so, and she was of age now and
competent to choose for herself.
"And I will choose you, Jan," she
rrotc, "for I have never cared for any one
but you, and I am not the i,irl to marry
one I cannot love, even at my father's
bidding."
By that I knew tbat the old man still
favored Hank's suit.
I showed the letter to Thorne and told
him all, and said :
"It is well for a young man to mirry,
and if the father doubts that thou canst
keep a wife, let him speak to me."
So, at the midsummer holiday I went
down to my native place, confident in my
hope of success, and happy as a man could
bo.
It was late when I reached the villaze
too late to go to my old master's house
so I stopped for the night at the "Gold
en Bell." Tbc usual crowd of drinkers
stood about the bar, and amount them
was Hank. Not the Ilauk of ol J, though
in some things, for be had come iuto the
butcher's money, and was finely dressed,
aad glittering with jewelry.
"Come back again, master runaway,"
he cried, "what for, I'd like to know !"
I turned ou my heel without answering,
but he followed me.
"I reckon I can tell," said he, "but it
is no use. Hetty belongs to another chap
than a runaway 'prentice. She's my gal
now," and he uttered an oath.
I turned on him suddenly.
"Liar," I said. "How dare you use
that name in such a place ?"
"Reckon I've a right to nse it when I
choose," he said. "I'm to marry her next
week. Why, look; here's the ring she
gave me. It's too late for you now."
He stretched out his hand, and there I
saw upon the little finger the ring I had
given Uetabell, my mother's wedding
ring.
I felt a shudder run through my frame.
"The fellow lies, docs he not ?" I asked
the landlord.
Over the glasses that parsonage shook
his wise head.
"I know it is true," he said. "Her
father told me yesterday in Hetty's hear
ing." All of the old fiend there was within
mo, grew strong at that. I could not trust
myself to speak.
1 dashed out of the house and away
into the darkness, walking straight on,
and never heeding where I went, until,
in tho gray dawn, I beard a drum begin to
beat, aud saw before me a little town and
on its margin a rtsruitiiig teat.
TLs war Lad jaat bijk.i out, iiid I,
wrapped in my own hopts, had thought
very little of it, or anything bat UetabeU.
ISut when the soldier at the door called to
me
'Step up, sir, and see what bouaty
Uncle Sam is offering such fine built fel
lows as you."
I marched straight up to him.
"Confound the bounty," I cried, "give
me a chance of being shot," and in half
an hour I had enlisted.
In a month we were npon southern
ground, ready to meet the foe. .
Many and many a hot battle I fought,
though unharmed, while men who longed
to live fell about me like the leave3 in
autumn woods. Many and many a hard
tramp I had, half starving, over fiozen
ground. Two hardships only made me
hardy. My frame never suffered ; but all
the while in battle, on march, or about
the camp-fire, I thought one thing, "Uet
abell is false to me."
It was a tune to which my heart beat
night and day. I cared for nothing else.
Years passed on, I rose from the ranks
I became an officer I was f-poken of
as a brave man. I knew that 1 was a
coward who feard life as others feared
death. It was as terrible to live, with
my grief, through all the quiet years that
must come after tho turmoil cf war war
over.
If I did my duty and I strove to al
ways it was no merit for me, as it might
have been had she watched for my return
had love made this world blessed.
One night while in camp, I went out,
as was my custom, to walk in the moon
light. It was late, and I had paced up
and down a Ions, while when I aw
crouching figure tooling behind the tent:
I knew in a moment that this was a
deserter. In another moment L was up
on him, and he lay at my fee!, a trembl
ing wretch, abject in his terror.
"Oh, have mercy, Captain," he whined
"I'll go back- I'll dy my duty. Dou't
have mc shot. Only lot me live. It was
that I was afraid ot dying, and the wiel -
ed wretch shed tears.
"Do you care so much for your worth
less life V I asked.
"It s the onlv one 1 ve cot. It s a
great deal to me. Captain."
1 lifted my hand from his shoulder.
"Go back to yonr place," I said. "Be
ware of a second attempt of this kind
I warn vou I'll have vou watched. This
time you are safe."
The thing sunk at my feet, then arose,
cringing and as the moon swept from an.
der a cloud I saw Hank's well-known
face under the soldiers' cap.
I gave a cry. He uttered another,
and shrunk from me. "Stop !" he said,
,;you have got reason to hate me, but I
can set you right where you are wrong.
Jet me go as you said you would, and I'll
tell you something. You've done me a
good turn ; I'll do you another."
I listened.
"It was lie about Hetty." he said.
'I knew your letter and ring and I got
tbat on the sly to plague her. ., The old
man said I should have her, and told
people so in his cups : but she wouldn't;
she'd have died first. You ought to have
seen her go on when you didn't wrltj to
her. She's there yet at the smithy.
.May I go back to camp, Captain ?"
1 let him go.
Even had I wished to detain bim I
had not the power. My limbs gave way
beneath me ; tho moonlight night grew
dark, and I dropped like a dead thing to
the ground.
I arose from it to say that the truth
might not have come too late, and to my
Uetabell.
And so it came to pass that when the
war was over, and I returned home, aud
peace once more, the first who met me,
with her sweet, forgiving face, was Ueta
bell. And the stormy years of battle
of grict are over now, and she has given
h-T dear hand to me.
So when the shadows grow long and
through friend Thorn's dim counting
house begius the quiet bustle of closing
desks aud goiug borne, I lay my pen
a-i le, and thinking of the happy fireside
that awaits mc, fancy myself most blest
of liviug mortals, and half believe the
past a weary dream.
EG A Vile old bachelor says that
Adam's wife was called Eve, because when
she nppcaroJ, man's Jay of happiness was
Jtiwioi to i close.
AS INDIAN ASP Hf3 SUUAW.
When it is said, iu geticial terms, that
the men do nothing but knut all day while)
the women are engaged in perpetual t7,
I suppose this suggests to civilized read
ers, the idea of a party of gentlemen at
Melton, or a turn out of Mr. McyncH'a
hounds; or at most a deerstalking ex
cursion to the Highlands a holiday af
fair; while the women, poor boul ! must
sit at home and sew, and fpln, and cook
victuals. But what is the life of an In
dian hunter ! one of incessant, almost
killing toil, and often danger. A hunter
goes out at dawn, kuowing that, if ho re
turns empty, his wife and little ones must
starve no uncommon predicament ! lie
comes home oX sunset, sjent with fatigue,
and unable even to speak. His wife takes
off his moceassins, places before him what
food she has, or, if latterly the chase has
failed, probably no food at all, or orly a
little parched wild rice. She then ex
amines his haunting pouch, and in it
Cuds the claws, or b-ak, or tongue of the
game, or other indications, by which she
knows what it is, and where to find it.
She then goes for it, and drags it home.
When he is refreshed, the hunter-caresses
bis wife and children, relates the events
of his chase, smokes his pipe and goes to
sleep to begin the same life on the fol .
lowing day. Where, then, the whole du
ty, and labor of providing the means of
subsistence cubled by danger and cour
age, falls upon the man, the woman nat
urally sinks in importance, and is a de
pendent drudge. J3ut she is not, there
fore, 1 suppose, so rcry miserable, nor,
relatively so very abject; she is sure of
protection; sure of maintenance, at least
while tbc man has it; sure that she will
never have her children taken away from
her but by death, sees none better off than
herself, and has bo conception of a su
perior destiny, and it is evident that in
such a state the appointed and nccess ry
share of the women is the household
work, and all other domestic labor. JJr
Janeson's Canaihi.
EXCELLENT RULES.
An Eastern paper gives the following
seasonable and excellent rules fiT )Oing
men commencing business.
The world estimates men by their suc
cess in life, and by general consent, suc
cess is evidence of superiority.
Never, under any circumstances assume
a responsibility you can avoid consistently
with your duty to yourrclf and others.
Base all your actions on a principle of
right; preserve your integrity of charac
ter, and in doing this never reckon on
the cost.
Remember lhat self interest is mora
likely to warp your judgment than all
other circumstances comoined; therefore,
bok well to your duty when your interest
h concerned.
Never make money at the expense of
your reputation.
Be never lavish nor niggardly; of tho
two, avoid the latter. A mean man w
universally desj iscd, but public favor is a
stepping stone to preferent ; therefore
gcneious feelings should be cultivated.
Say but little think much and do
more.
Let your expenses be such as to learo
a balance in your pocket. Ready money
is a friend in need.
Keep clear of the law ; for even if you
gain your case, you are generally a loser.
Avoid borrowing and lending.
Never relate your misfortunes, and
never grieve over what you cannot pic-
vent.
Resignation. A lady elegantly dress
ed in the "habilimcut3 of wee" was nies
in the street a few days ago by an ac-
quaietaace who ventured to remark upon
her being iu mourning. "Yes," eaid the
Dereaved one, mournfully, taking a few
steps to trail her dress, and looking over
her shoulder at the effect thereof, "I ve
just lost my mother don't you think
this a sweet veil ? Such a deep hem !"
Such a resignation in affliction is touch
ing.
lay During a case in which the bound
arles of a certain piece of laud were to
le ascertained, the counsel of one pait
said, "We lie on this side, may it please
the court." The counsel 'of the other
part said : "We lie on this." The Judge
stood up and said, "If you lie ou both
ides, whoiu will you huve me to believe?"