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VOLUME XXI. NIK SG7"
HIFFLLNTOWN. JUNIATA, OHhNTY, PEWA., DECEMBER 11. 2867.
WHOLE NUMBER 1076
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the nnGiiToViiic' raDicuLousT"
I wrote sonic lint's onec on n (imo
la iroii'Jrous niTi v mood,
Anil tli.iiilil, usii.il, men would eny
Tln'v were cxcc?Jir.g goo l.
They v.-cro so iiiocr, fo vtry queer,
I l.mp'ir as I would die ;
Alocil in Ihc pi'nrral way,
A u"bor niiin am I.
I ciVii"! tny servant, tnd lie came;
llnw kind ii was of liiin.
To mind n plender i.ian li'.i
lie of ihc mighty linili.
'i'licc to tlic printer,"' I exclaimed,
And In tny litiuKToiis way,
I added, (as n t ri ili n c; jest,)
"Tiiere'l be th doil to pav."
1'e Inni; the paper and I T.n'cTiod,
And ;.-w liim peop within;
A! t!..' lirst line lie read, liis f.ica
Was all upon the g"in.
lie read i lie next: the grin grew broad,
And rlio frau r tit tmrz
He read the third : a chuckling noise
I ii iw liep-.a io hear.
The To'i-lh : he lnd;c into a roir;
The fifth: !ii." waistl'und rp'it;
The ixih ; he l.ur.l live buMuris off,
And tuiu'i'cd in a fit.
Ten dpys r.nd niphts, wih ii'crpless eye,
I wntchi'd that vretehed man,
And fmcc. I never dare to write
As funny a.s I can.
ttjwmn slossoiss
lio'.v wns it that 1 esmc to be au old
j haehehii-' X.;t l eeinse of hating woman,
! 1 n:'i sine, f'r 1 liked I hem ve-y much,
I iini inner i-oalu have sjn.ket to ot;e rude-
' iv of iii.se i'jr'eoiislv lor r.:v life. As near
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' !y a I knoT, it wti' iu lliis wise:
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i-jtinT uifi!, ;e:ivu; ' a lamuy oi- ciui-
ir, m f, uud uu litd 1'athor atli mOlb-
: ti-. whom only iiiy.iell' was abie to earn
! i '.!-r. He lrid never fared anything.
! i, Kiter the iir.it grei.: gritf, whtn we
; ?:.!uicd !o.i ii nnd were able to lj"k
:i.i:ii is tjuiet'y in ti c face, theic was a
vieM'i.ifi s-oit vf prospect fjr us. I was
n'y an tiecnu'it.int, and Lad a young fel-
nv r iiaoil ii! w.i5:u!g my sniuii s.iiaiy in
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"i.d eliiidiih as she 'vss, ImJ a w.iv,
:!:ai .-:iu ivU 'o have of leading their!
aluii: ers i:thi extravagance. ()1 a!i the!
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uii J ie'j-i'.cat::i, ana uaiti'y Liis of jewclrv, j
a "id miiiiil'.tdiiii'us invitati'.-r.;' at Kisie's i
f it, was a very icrsible oldeal. 1 passed j
ii. Ii.i.ulIi ; and if ever mau had reaou
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IO fc tliU'lkl'.ll 1 lillli, lor tiiO SeiJ'JlsltlVC
ii'jic i.e.iu'j' j lieu me iu a tjoutii lor Toin
r.mdeui, who Wiis l icli i;tid lavish of L;ilts,
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iitid wlio eh-ped from her, niter a maniaiie
! id' ten months, with a singer at the opera.
! I wj:kcd day and night, and managed
' to keep the pot bmliug, and to drive the
! v.o!i frotu the door the gaunt wolf,
i' jVi ny, who howled agood deal ahout
the house at ui'st, aud aecmed inclined to
make a meal ol u-.
j 'oi!iLtiiijes I used to thiuk IiOv well it
was i,T i:.ie lhat she bad not reallv lov-
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eu me, iur she cou'd have had nothing
a oismai prospect of weaiiiiL' out her
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youth lu a liicaty, nope. ess engagemeut
to eir.P io.l noor In tnnrrv ICIiut uiu tin.
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,;1 cm TiU ;eu thought it would
', hae been even better for ber to have
shared our hauibie home and poor fare,
a,lt love I could have giveu her, than
t0 be dwried so. And I pitied ber, as if
she bad not proved herself heartless. IJut
1 never went near her, of course, and I
iiever even spoke of her to my mother.
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I grew uo younger ail this while, aud
very year seemed to add five to my looks.
imu uivci uecu tcijr uauusuiuc ui vciy
merry, auu soon I became conscious ot a
peculiar midd!e-aj;ed look, which settles
dowu upon some people very early,
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mi angers, too, began M lake me lor tue
head of the family ; and once, iu a new
neighborhood, the butcher alluded to Vuiy
wile." I found cut that he meant my
mother, aud ouly wondered that it Was
not tiear
old
;raunie.
She was eigiity, grandfather uinety,
and they died or.e bright Thanksgiving
day, Leloro prosperity came to ua died
tri:Iiin an hour of each other fur gran
nic just paid :
"1 think. I'll lie down a lit, now Lem
uel don't need me. I'm very tired."
Then slic kissed iuc uml said :
"i'uu've bceu a ;;ioJ boy to j'our grand
pa, Hiiwu! J. Ycu'll have that to think
If."
Ami when nest wo louhed at her bhe
was dead, with Iter check ujvjn her Laud,
like a bleqing child.
So two were goue, and wc wero sadder
than before. And then Jeau, my eldest
sister, ir.atried pt sixteen, a clergjuian,
who carried her off to lliudostun iu her
honeymoon.
And wc could none of U3 foci the wed
ding a happy thing.
iJut prosperity did conic at last. I had
worked hard for it, and anything a man
wakes h soul ol ject in this lile ho ii
very suru to attain.
V.'e were ejtt;fortab!e easy. Ah, what
u woi i ilia.;, is alter year of struggle. At
la.st ue were rich. i!.u Ly that time I
was livc-a ii d-forty a 'argc, dark. iniUilio-
aged Ui-in, with a f.ice (hat looked to my
self iu '.he glass as though it Were perpet
ually iuteut oo figures. The girls were
married. lick had taken to the sea, and
we saw him once a year or so, and Ashion
was at houc with mullar ami myself
(ho only re illy handsome uiets.bcr of our
laiiiiiy, and jut two-aud twenty. Aud it
was on his birth day, I remember, that
thai letter came to me from poor Hunter
'.hat letter which began:
"When these lined reach you, Xcd San
f.ird, I sliail have my six leef of earth
all 1 ever owned, or would if I had lived
to be au huudred."
We had veea young together, though
he was reuily oldur than I ; and we had
been close friends .nco, but a roving Ct
had seized him. ami we had not met fir
years. I knew lie had man ied a young
.Southern girl, and knew no moie, out uuw
t:o told lic (hat she wai ticad an .Ut l.i.,
death w.iuld leave a daughter an orphan.
"iihe is not ij'iile peutii'ess," he wiote:
'for her mo! her had a iitile iiaMine, whitli
pour iis I was, I was i.evir liuic
enough to meddle with, and it has de
scended to her. J)ut 1 have been a loll
ing ttuue, gathering no moss all my life,
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I:cr g'laiuian : u is a dying mau s last
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Au l then he wrote some words, coming
IVum his heart, I knew, which, being of
niys.ilf, I eanuot ijuote even here 1 could
i:ot think that I deserved them.
And tf.e result of that letter, aud o)
a no: her fro:u the lawyer who had Antiic
lluntci 's little furtuue in ehaige, was that
one soft spring day found me on board of!
a great su-auier which lay at rest after her j
voyage in the protecting arms ol great
New Yo.l:, with two little hands iu mine
and a p.iir of great brown eyes lifted to
my face, aud a swe?t voice choked with
sobs uayicg something of "poor papa,"
and of how much he had spoken of me,
nnd of the lovely voyage, aud the green
graves left behiud, aud I, who had goue
to meet a child aud fouud a woman, look
ing at her aud feeling toward her us I had
never looked upou noi feit to any other.
Not to Elsie Hall. It was not the boy
ish love-dicam come again.
Analyzing the emotion, I found only a
great lougiug to protect aud comf ort her
to guard her from every pain aud ill ; and
1 said to myself This is as a father must
feel to a daughter; I cau be a parent to
(J-orge Hunter's child in very truth.
Aud I took her home to the old house
aud to my old mother. I thought ouly of
those ; somehow I never thought of Ash
ton. Shall I ever lorgct how she brightened
the sombre rooms ! How. as her sadness
wore away, she sang to us ia the twilight !
How strangely a something which made
the return home aud the long hourj of
the eveuing seem so much brighter thau
they had evea beeu before, stole iuto my
iile. I never went to sleep in church
uow ; I kept awake to look at Oliver Hun
ter to listen to her pure coutraito as she
joined in the singiug. Sometimes I caught
her eye, her great uufathoujible brown,
lor she had a habit of looking at me.
Was she wondering how a face could be
so stern and grim '! I used to ask myself.
A-.. -i . i ,.- ir.
hud been awav when she first came to us,
audwhenhe'return-d.she was a raud !
surprise to him. i
,t'b'rcat lleaven I how lovely he isl''j
li' ;( saiil to me.
's j very pretty," I replied.
A,shon laughed.
"May I mver be on old bachelor if it
brings me to calling such a girl 'very
pretty," ' he siJ ; and I felt csnscious
that my cheek flushed and I felt angry
that he should hae npokeo of me thus,
though I never cared before.
They liked each oLher very much
thoso two young thing- They were to
gether a great deal. A pretty picture
they made in the nctian window in the
sunset. Ho waS fair-haired, llue-eyed,
Mnglish-lookingyouth; she so exquisitely
dark and glow'og.
Every oneked her. Even my old
clerk, Stephen Iladly. used to say Lcr
presence lif the office more than a dozen
lamps, the nearest approach to a poetical
speech of which old Stephen was ever
known to be guilty ; and 1 never knew
how muchhe was to me until one even-
in
when, coming home earlier than
us lull
wher:
I H iu thut Ycoetian window
AshtOD nnd Oliver had made so
many pleasant pictures for we, oue that 1
never forgcj that I never shall forget as
long as I live.
She stood with her back to inc. Ash
tou was kneeling at her feet. The sound
of ttie opening dooor dissjlvtrtl the pieturc
but I had seen it, and I stole away to hide
the stab that it had given me.
1 sat down in my own room and hid nn
lace iu my hands, ami would have been
glad to hide it beneath my cotiin-lid.
1 kuew now that I loved Oiive Hunter;
that I loved her not as an o'd man might
love a child, but a a young man might
love the woman who ought to be his wife
better than I had loved Elsie Hall; for
it was not boyish passion, bat earnest,
love.
I iu love ! I arose, and luokid in the
mirror, and my Lroad-LoulJeicd refkc -
li'jn blushed before my gaze.
The cpring-ti'Ho ol my life lioJ flown,
and my summer had eoiue and gone, ami
in the aut'iniu I had dieamt of love's bud
and blossom.
Yes, 1 Lad, dreamt of it; 1 knew it
now. A to! she might have loved me had
I had Ashion's soft skin, and biue eyes,
and gracelu! figu.e, and his youth and
lig'it-htaiicduess Oh, the bri-ht pos
sibilities of lhat might have been '.
1 knelt beside my bed, and prayed thai
I might not hat my brother that I
niiaht not even envy him. His touch
upon u.y door startled me. lie came in
with something iu !iis macccr not usuil
:o him, and sat down just opposite to me.
Tor a few moments we were silent. Then
he said, speaking rapidly and blushing
like a girl :
"Ned, old fellow, you you saw me
m9Uo a ,0o; cf niJ-scif just D0W I Mp.
pose
I saw you on your knees," I said.
"Aud thought mo a silly fellor, ch ?
Dut you don't know, Ned. You can't un
derstand, you've been so calm and coo! ell
your life through, you know. She's driv
ing mc mad. Ned, I do believe she ikes
mc, but she won't s:y yes. I'd give my
right baud for her love. I must have it,
aud I thiuk ycu can help me, Ned. From
something she said, I believe she thinks
yju would disapprove ; perhaps that you
are one to marry for money. Tell her
you're not, Ned, dear old fellow, tell
her you have no objection,' and I'll never
forget it indeed, I won't !"
"Tell her I have no objections," I re
peated, mechanically.
V'You know you are master here, and
as much my father as if you really were
one instead of a -brother," said Ashton.
"If I did not know how kindly you had
always felt to us bulb, I shouldn't confide
in you, for it's a serious thiug to be in
love, Ned, and you may thank Heaven
you know nothing cf it." x
Know uothiog of it ! ah, if he could
have read my heart just then !
"I'll do what I cau, Ashton," I said at
last. "I'll try my best."
And he fiung his arm about "me iu hi
own boyish fashion, ami he left me alone
alone with my own thoughts.
lie bad said truly : I had been like a
fither to him. I was old enough to be
hers, and no one should know my silly
dreain. I would hide it while I lived.
U.U. - -I've onlv tho old
folks and the children now," and I said
then, "I will only think ot mother aud of I
Ashton. Let my cwa life be as nothing ;
I have lived for them, ii needs be, I
ill die for then
Eut I would cot see or upeak ta Oliv
that night, nor until the next day was
ojuile goue. Then, in the twilight, I sat
beside her aud took her hand.
'Oiivc," I paid, "I think you, know
that Ashton loves vou. I am sure he has
told you si. And you cau can you not
love him V
tiic drew her hand from mine, and said
not one word.
"I should rejoice in my brother's hap
piness. I should think him happier in
having your love than &nylhiag else could
make him," I said. ''1 told him I would
tell you, so."
Aud then she spoke :
'You wish me to marry Ashton ?" j
ll'.'proaeh was iu the toDe reproach
and sorrow.
''If you can love him, Olive," I said.
She arose. She seemed to shrink from
me, though in the dark I could not see
her fuca.
' I Uu uut love him," she fclid.
And we were still as death. Then sud
denly Oiive Hunter began to sob.
'You have been very kind to tic. I
love you all," she said, "but I cannot siay
here now. l'icase let me go somewhere
else. I must I cannot live here."
"Go from us, Oiive ? Nay, we are no
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Ivrinfu mot nni'o nnrnil mil iln put
iovc him, Ashton will "
'llu.sh !" she panted "hush ! Please
let me go away. 1'iease let me go away."
The moon was rising. Her nw-born
light fell upon Olive's face. I'erhaps its
whiteness made her look so pale.
She leaned agaiust the wall with her
j little hand upon her heart, her uufathom-
j able eyes full of paiu. liow had I hurt
' her ec- ? A new thought struck me.
laps you
love some oue
j Olive V I said,
. And at that she turned her face from
u:c and hid it in l cr l.an.b.
-'i'o. much Uio'niuuli, Vou tuihl
have spared me that,'' she said. "Let
m? go away. I wish you had never bro't
mc here."
And I arose and went to her. I bent
ovi.r the wumau I loved. I touched her
with li'y hand ; I.er soft ha'.r brushed my
chct-!.'.
"Olive," I said, "if coming Li-re htf
brought ppiu.upou yen, I wish I had no.
I w.iuld have died to make you happy. '
And my voice trembled, and my hand
shook, r.nd she t'jrned her face lowaid me
again and looked into my eyes. What
she saw in mine I do nut know the (ruth
I think. In hers I read this : I wis cot
old to her; not too old to be loved.
I stole my arm about her; she did so1
entwine i. I uttered her name, "Olive,"
huskily. Aftcrwaids, 1 to'd Ler of civ
struggle with myscii'. not then. I said :
"Olive, I lovo you, but it cannot be
vou care for me. I am old enough to be
ynur father."
And again I saw in her eye? the happy
truth, and took her to my heart. And 1
was rot old, nor even middle-aged, but
young again in the bliss of that bright
momcut, aud I thiuk I Lave Lctn grow
ing younger ever since.
5ut we kept our secret for a while, for
we both loved Ashton, and both knew bis
wound was not too deep to find a balm ;
and within a year, when the boy brought
home a bride, a pretty creature whom he
loved, and who iuve-J him, I claimed
Oiive.
And she is rjiine now ; and the autumn
blossoms of my heart will only fade on
earth to bloom again through all etsruiiy.
COUNTRY atEnXG TALK.
An Illinois editor, who EOiuetimes has
an attack of phronography, attended a
meeting where he took down the follow
ing notes of the different topics of con
versation at one time ;
Vote for Lorejoy ! exclaimed a politi
cal aspirant, indignantly, I'd as leave vote
tor Lloyd Garrison himself, loaded dewn
as he i3 with
Two of the fattest and best critters you
ever set your eyes on, interrupted a dealer
in cattle, that I sold for
The horrid yellow dress again, exclaim
ed Miss Spruce, in what might have
sounded like a whisper, if she had been
cu the other side of the room, pointed
-. haif at and wears
Tee.h and toe cu.1 to get ,ato office
broU in another polun but the people
s not trust h.ia again, beside he is-
Spaviueq in Loth hind legs, wind-broken
and foundered to hoot, is I told Mr.
JervU at the time
One tea cup full of Lat'er, two of ea
gr, three of flour, four eggs and a sprin
kle of Dutmegs, makes
IJot'u cqu3 teet "Then the yiar. conies -round,
poor woman I she has got six chil
dren, the oldest one blind, and
No saddle or hridle to rido httq with,
somebody stole it while I was gone to
Chicago after
The long promised miilenial day which
we have uo doubt is to be brought about
through the ministration of ,
Two Dutchmen, a monkey and a hand
organ to grind ; and oh. it made the fun
niest music and the little ilgures danced
around like
Ninety-nine hundred miles of railroad
track, and that is at an estimated cost
of
Five ceats a dozeu. I sold four hens,
to Mr. V iison, and the hawks carried off
three, besides aBy number of chickens
and'
Such, a handsome youn man, and Le
danced so beautiful. Did you ever see a
handsomer pair of whiskers, cr a moie
fascinating
Ilaudlc to my tea pot, snd Tommy df.
dared he hadn't touched it at ali. nnd I
i " ' ijiu.ii uuuu i jyr sue nau neen ail
J '
I- ....n- I..,:!.. 1. r 1-111 !
the t'me
Running at the rate of twenty-Gee ru.'ici
an hour with no headlights on. and around
the curve at that, when the locomotive
broke the bridge over
That youug Miss 15rown that L?d tho
small pox last spriug. Tuey do say she
is going to marry
Two pniuter dogs and the best gun in
town. I wanted the gun the woist way
and offered him
The scarlet lever and the whoopirg
cough, and I don't know what be hadn't
had, pior little darllug. This is the fir;.t
time that I have taken him out since
The Mexican war, which I consider
was entirely unjustifiable, unless it be on
:he ground thai
The preacher liar come, rxcijixed a
boy, and depositing my report in my pock
et, I proceeded into the school bouse to
mujG upon the utility of phrono!'rapliy.
CONCilUNLNG BATc.
A writer in the Lnndon Buiiiirr gossips
at length concerning rats. He estimate
that (here arc sixty riiiiions of ihcm in
the I'uited Kingdom. As to their des
tructive power, be remarks :
" I can testify from experit3,e. when
they have young they will carry a;"V and
store upscores of young chickens, ducks or
turkeys in a single night, much the ar.;o
as a cat bavin;; kittens. A friend of mice
who had a little rabbit warren opposite
his wiudows, saw hie cat catch a yourg
r?l'bif. lie followed her and found lhat
she hud airead. Lid up thirty-six that
morning near ber kittens. I haveksown
of a brace of foxes taking thirty seven
turkeys in a single night, end btuying
many of them up in some dung-heaps
which wer-2 upon an adjoining field rendy
for spreading
When hard pressed for food themselves
or their voting, ra!3 are very daring and
will attack large chickens and good sized
rabbits. I know a case where a youth
was awoke in the night by a rat Vginnini
upon his car. Wherever stock are fed
with meal or grain, there the rats will
surely come, to share, wi'h the piis rsp.
cially ibeir bailey meal and pollard
Ivats migrate, and travel a long way in a
night in search of food. A neighbor of
miuc told me that he one ciht met a
samll army of them, some" hundreds to
gether. Hats fiuJ auuiitduiit sccoom
monducion aud concealment under the old
fashioned woodeu barn Coois and dilapidat
ed or thatched farm buldings. The mod
ern system of asphalting upon coucrcte is
an efiectual barrier ; they caunot gnaw it ;
their ouly chance is to burrow uuder aud
between the ground and the coucetc, and
this, by a careful examination, may La
may be easily preveuted. A very destruc
tive, cunning old rat, that could never be
traoped, was taken iu the following man
ner : Every hole except one was carefu.iy
stopped with gas-tar substance", and the
part set at the remaining hole. For two
days and nights he declined coming out,
but hunger and thirst at last compelled
bim to face lbs trap, and he -ai taken.