VOL. 1.
RID G WAY. PA., JULY Q, 1870.
NO. 38.
i .i
PUBLISHED WEEKLY,
r $2 p e n . Jt ji r w .
RfLl?s of Advertising.
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Xuditor's notices, c-acli, 3 00
Cautious ana Estrays each, 8 times 3 00
Transient Advertising per squre of. 8Jjnes
.r less 8 times, or less.. 'I IK)
tor each BUbsciuent, insertion 50
Ulticial advertising for each square of 8
lineror less 3 times or less .2 00
rorcacn Buosequom. insertion w
Professional cards, 5 liuer, 1 yr 6 00
Loal notices, per line, one time 15
Obituary notices, over 6 lines 10
Tearly Advertising, one-half column GO 00
icany Advertising, onecolmnn iw i
Manks, single quire - 60
iilanks, three quh;e - 00
Itianks. 6 auires . r er nuirc 1 75
Iilanks, over 6 quires per quire 1 GO
ror batik notes, suhpoenas, summons, ex
ecutions, warvauts. constable sales,
road and boIhjoI nrdors, each per doz...Jo
Bandbills, eight iheet 25 or less 1 GO
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" balf-sflicct 2Gorle?s 4 GO
" wliolgi seet i 25 or less 8 00
Over 25 of cacm of above at proportionate rates,
COUNTV OFFICERS.
Prcident Jndirc S. P. Johnson.
4ciditioual Lav Judge lion. dho. f.
ljficent.
Associate Judges E. C. Schultze,
'Jesse Kyler. ,
District Attorney J. K. P. Hall.
Sheriff Jacob McOauley.
Frothonotary &c Fred. Scheming.
Treasurer Claudius V. Gillis.
(o. Superintendent Ruf'us Lucnre.
Commissionera II. Warner, Jos. W.
Taylor, Louis VollniT.
Auditors Clark Wilcox, George, D.
Messenger, and Joseph W lllielrn.
County Surveyor Ceo. Walinslcy.
Jury Commissioners. George Diekinsn,
ana Horace Little.
TIME OF HOLDING COURT.
Second Monday in January,
Last Monday in April.
First Monday in August.
First Monday in November.
EAILEOADS-
PEILAD LH2A & EME KAILK3AD.
SUMMER TIME TABLE.
lN and after MONDAV. MAY ".Oili, 1870,
the trains on the Philadelphia & Erie
Railroad will run as follows :
WESTWARD.
Mail Train leaves Philadolpliia...
" " Ridgway
i. i arrive tlt Erie
Erio Exp leaves Philadelphia...
" " " Ridgway
" " arrive at Eric
HASTWAUI).
Mail Train leaves Eric
" " " Ridgway
" " arrive at I'hilad'a...
Erie Express leaves Erie
" " Ridgway....
i ii r-at l'liiladeliiliia.
....10.20 p. m.
... i.-ii p. m.
.... 7.40 p. ni,
...10.G0 a. in.
... 2.00 a. m.
. ..11.20 a. m
... 8.G!) a. m.
.... .4 p. m.
... 0.20 a. m.
0.00 p. m.
.. J, 20 a. m.
5. 80 p. tu.
Express, Mail and Accommodation, east and
west, connect at Corry and till west bound
tiaius and Mail accommodation east at. lrvin
ton with the Oil Creek and Allegheny River
Kail Road.
WM. A. BALDWIN.
Gen'l Stip't.
A
LLEG1IENY VALLEY RAIL ROAD.
'i'lie only direct route to Pittsburg
WITHOUT CHARGE OF CARS
from Oil City.
On and after Monday Nov. 22d 18C0, trains
'will run as iollows :
GOING SOUTH
Day Express leaves Oil City at
Arriving at Pittsburg t
Night Express leaves Oil City at
Arriving at Pittsburg at
Kittening Aco. leaves Emlenton
Arriviving at Kittanning
Mixed Way leaves Oil Oity at
Arriviug at West l'enn Junction at
GOING NORTH.
Day Express laaves Pittsburg at
Arriving at Oil City at
Night Express lfeavcs Pittsburg at
Arriving at Oil City at
Parker Aco. leaves Kittanuing
Arriving at Parker
10,,10 a. m.
6,30 p. m.
'.hot) p. m.
7,00 a. ni.
0,10 p. m-
51.00 p. m.
7,00 a. ni.
7,0i p. m.
7,15 a. m.
1,55 p. m.
8,00 p. m.
0,00 a. m.
7,!0 a. in.
0,55 a. m.
Mixed Way leave West Pcun Juno, at 7,00 a. m.
Arriving at Oil City at 0,00 p. m.
Connections at Corry and Irvino'-on for Oil
City aud Tittsburg. At Franklin with James
town and FraiiKlin R. R. Connections with
West Penn, R. K. at West Pcnn Junction for
Blairsville and all points on the main line of
toe Pennsylvania li. It.
$gP"Silver Palace Sleeping Cars" on all
Night Trains both ways fnoiu Pittsbrgh to
Corry,
J. J. LAWRENCE, OeneralSupt.
Tuos. M. Kino, Asst. Supt.
B
OOK AGENTS WANTED FOR
Struggles and Triumphs of
NUM.
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Written by himself. In one large octavo vol
ume nearly 800 pages printed in English
nnu uorman. 64 lull page eugravings. it em
toraces forty year recollections of his busy life,
as a merchant, manager, banker, lecturer and
howman. No book published so acceptable to
all classes. Every one wants it. . Agents aver
age trora ou to iuu euuacriners a week. We
offer extra inducements. Illustrated oatalogue
and terms to agents sent free. -
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JOB WORK of all kinds and desori-
dona at this ofBo.
mm
BUSINESS CARDS.
1 J, S. BORDWELL, M. D.
ECLECTIC FHT'StCIr
The word eelectio means to choose or se
lect medicines from all the different
schools of medicine s using remedies mat aro
safe, and discarding from practice all medi
cines that have an injurious effoct on the pys
tem, Buch as mercury, antimony, lead, cop
per, &o.
1 lay aside the lance the old hloodlotter.
reducer or depleter, and equalir.e !the circula
(inn anil rpytnrn the svslem to its nntural
state by alteratives and tonics. I shall hcre-
after give particular attention to chronio dis
eases.jSiicn as Rheumatism, Uysprpsia, Liver
complaint, Catarrh, Neiralgia, diseases of the
throat, urinary organs, and all uiseases pecu
liar to females, &c.
CATARRH I treat -with a new instrument of
a late invcution. which cuvesevery case.
TEETH extracted without pain.
Office and residence South of the jail on
Centre St. Office hours from to 8 a. j m 12
to 1 p. m ; C to 7 p. m.
Dec. 23'(ii."ly. J. S. Ju)Ktt i.LU
JOHN G. HALL, Attorney at law, Ridg
way, Elk county Pa. mar.22'JG ly
JOilN a. HALL.....
JAS. K. P. HALL.
Ss BRO.
HALL
Attorneys. - at
- Law
KM. WAlil'B!
BENZINGER P. 0. ELK COUNTY, PA.
September 20, 18G6. ly.
J.
S. Bordwell, M. D. Eclectic Physician'
Jail, on Centre St., Ridgway, Fa. Prompt at
tention will be given to all calls. Omco hours :
7 to 8 A. M- ; 12 to 2 P. M. ; and 0 to 7 P. M.
Mar. 22, Gti-tf.
17KANKLIN HOUSE,
J Sr. Mabv's. Pa.
LARtilil & JIALO.Mi, l'BOPR's.
The proprietors respectfully ask the attention
of their friends and the public in general to
tlie:r large and commodious hotel. .Every
at tent ion paid to the convenience of guests.
11. LAKUKY,
naySO -ISfiS.ly J. A. m A LONE.
"ASLIN Kettles, Brass Kettles, Porclean
Sauce Pans, French Tined Sauce Tans.
Fruit cans the cheapest and best, at W. S.
SE 11 VICE'S, Ilardwaro.Store, Pidgway,Pa.
TTYBE HOUSE,
X Riurwat, Elk Co., Pa.
W. li. SCI1HAM, Proprietor.
Thankful for the patronise heretofore so
liberally bestowed upon him, tho nw pro
prietor, hopes, by paying strict attention
to tho comfort and convenience of guests, to
merit a conlniuanco ol the same.
Oct 80 180'.!.
nHIIAYER HOUSE,
X R IPG WAY, TA.
u. vit Tii.wi:!'., rioprietor.
Tho undersigned having fitted up a large
and oommoilious hotel on tlie southwest
corner of Centre and Mill streets, with good
mid convenient stahling attached, respect
fully solicits the patronage of his old friends
and the p'irlio generally.
UCCUS'lit) )J DAVID TUA1EK.
JERSEY HOUSE,
Cl-NTlslVlLLK, El.K Co., Pa.
John Coluss, Proprietor.
Thankful for the patronage hcrototore so
liberally bestowed upon him. the new pro
prietor, hopes, by paying strict attention to
the comfort ar.a convenience of guests, to
merit a continuance of the same.
vln201y.
JJ-ORTON HOUSE,
M. V. Moore, (hite of the Hyde House)
1 ropnetor.
Open Day and Night-
nSOtf.
HEN It Y SOUTHER,
Ridgway, Pa.
Attorney-at-Law
(fcb2'68),
LANES of all
tic 3.
kinds for sale at this
II. VOLK, Manufacturer and Dealer
jm in Ljigtr Beer, opposite the Railroaa
Depot, St. Mary s, Jilk county Pa.
JIar-22'6t-l .
ENVELOPES, LABELS & TAGS neatly
printed 1 1 tho Advocate Office.
I WAS cured of Deafness and Catarrh by
simple remedy, and will send the receipt
free. MRS. M. C. LEGGETT,
4w Hoboken, N. J.
tl C. II. FULLER,
' BOTANIC PHYSICIAN,
Rjdqwat, Pa.
Residence and office opposiu tho Thayer
House.
J D. PARSONS,
JIanufacturer and Dealer in Coots & Shoes,
Main St., opposite Hotel,
nov27y Wilcox, Pa.
JOB WORK done with disoatch at this
Office.
-JOARDING HOUSE,
- jxear the Depot, Wilcox, Pa.
MARTIN SOWERS, Proprietor.
The undersigned has opened a large boardirg
house at the above place, where he is amply
prepared to satisfy the wants of those who may
avoruim witn their custom. noVu'J20,
J Blank Book Manufaoturers, Wright's Blk
Corry, Pa Blank Books Made to Order.
Sctcrt
QL?
TCM HAWKINS.
, !
A ITewjChapior dI Political History Hot tie
"Little Giant" was to be put out of theway.
The Washington correspondent of tho
Chicago Tribune relates the following story
of the "olden time," before the great war :
"Did you ever hear of Tom Hawkins ?"
said a man of politics to rue yerterday.
"Tom Hawkins is the greatest duelist in
Kentucky. lie is now Governor Stevenson's
tobacco inspector at Louisville, a handsome
man, with a black moustache and large,
glariug black eyes, which seldom or never
wink, but look out like a tiger's und show
ferocity. He is, perhaps fifty years of oge
now, but still one ot the best Bhot3 in Ken
tucky, and he has fixed up rnoro quarlcs,
and been a second on more fields, than any
man alive. Personally ho is a gentle, truth
ful, faithful fellow, but he is deadly when
he bas made up his mind to eat somebody.
Tom is one ol the best of his elass,t he fin
ished duelist of the South, always nice up
on points of honor and prompt to advise
anybody to fight whom he thinks has been
injured. His last appearance in proximity
to the 'field of honor' was occasioned by a
mooted duel between tho Cincinnati editors,
which never came to a shoot. People who
know him, send for him in case of a duel,
just as you send for the physician and the
preacher when your are sick. lie was wound
ed at Buena Yista, and was with Hender
son, Crittenden, Lopez, and tho rest when
thy invaded Cuba. During tho war he was
on Breckenridge's staff, aud the affairs of
private blood in which he ha3 been enyaged
are innumerable. For instance, he was Ben
Johnson's second when he killed Tom
White. Did you ever hear of that ?" "No"
"Oh ! Tom Hawkins had to leave the State
for some years after that duel. Old man
White was there when Ben shot his son,
and he went on awlully. The papets raised
a howling row about that duel. 70111 white
and Ben. Johnson had a fo.-sovei cards.both
pretty lull, and a challenge passed, ' The
woman and families on both sides ook a
big interest in ii, and Ben.'g nicther mould
ed the balls with her own hands. She was
all up and alive about it. I reckon she'd
shot Ben. herself if ho hadn't gone to the
field. Ben. was all crippled up with rheu
matism, and they had to set him up nnd
hand him his gun. They fought with shot
guns loaded with ball. There was old man
White, bagging in the field about points of
houor, terms of apology, etcetera ctcetcrt,
when 'pop' went tho guns, and his son laid
dead at tho old man's feet, with a hole right
through his forehead. They say it was
dreadful to hear him go on. I don't know
what became of Ben. Johnson.
'Oh ! yes, bless your soul ! Tom Hawkins
scared John Pope most dead onee. They
were at old General Wool's table, when
Pope impugned the courage General
and Tom Hawkins just glanced at him and
opened out. John Pope had to take water.
"Tom was Breckenridge's second when
the challengo passed between John and
Cutting. There Tom showed tho general
ship of Alexander tho Great. Cutting's
second was old President Monroe's son of
tho regular army, and Tom turned him in
side out. He put him on the defense, thun
dered at him, and got John Breekenridge
off with all honors.
'Tom Il&wkins is a terrible fellow. If he
looks at you with bis wide open eye, full of
ferocity, you are half gone up already.
When they tried Henderson in New Or
leans and Judah Benjamin wis employed
by the Spanish gevernment to assist in the
prosecution, Tom, whose trial was to follow,
saw what a terrible tongue Benjamin had,
and he followed him out of tho court-room
and said :
" 'Look here, Mr. Jew, I want to tell
you something. If when my trial comes off,
you say one word against tuy character,
I'll kill you in your tracks.' '
Benjamin saw those big eyes ready to
jump out of Tom's head, and he said :
; " 'Mr. Hawkins, I shall not want to have
any diffijulty with you, sir.' ' '"
They did not convict Henderson, and
Torn never came to trial.
"I reckon you never heard of Tom Hen
derson's connections with the Fitch and
Stephen A. Douglastrial, did you ? That
has never been published, to my knowledge;
but it was a remarkable episode in the pre
face of the rebellion. You see, it was coming
on toward the political conventions of 18C0,
and Douglas Lad all the strength, so that
it was hard on to a certainty that he would
be nominated and crowd out the Buobanan,
party. I ot sure information of tho night-
ly cancusses of Slidell, Jesse D. Bright,!
Howell, Cobb, Benjamin, and that faction
in Washington, for they met at Cobb's
house chiefly, and one day it caruo to mo
Btraight as a wire that they had determined
to force Donglas into a fiht, and thai it had
been proposed that Slidell should insult
Douglas in the drinking saloon of the Sen-
ate, and if he resented it, shoot him' down,
I wrote to Douglas at once, but knowing
his habits sc well, of leavins letters unopen-
ed for days and weeks together, I sent the
letter to a friend, and commanded him to
make Douglas open it and peruse it, that
he mi"ht bo prepared. And in this letter I
said; 'If you are pushed to the wall, tele
graph for Tom Hawkins, of Louisville.
Well, I came cn from the South, soon
after that, and up with George Pugh to
to see Douglas. There we found nobody
to pay much attention to us. Douglas
seemed absorbed with something else, and
looking out of the library, across the hall,
I saw linger A. Pryor and Albert G.
Brown, of Mississippi, step into another
room. I asked no questions, but came away,
and soon afterwards started for New York,
When I got to the Relay House there was
about three minutes' delay as the Western
train had just come in, and I saw get out
cf it and step toward tho Washington train
who but Tom Hawkins '!'
'Tom,' I cried, 'what arc you doing hero.'
'What are you doing awpy from Wash-
ington ?' said Tom.
'Going to New York.'
-.ew loiK, wnat: uo you get me
here, and then run off to New Yoik?
Dougias has sent for nie. The fight's ou !'
'I'll get off my baggage at Baltimore,"
said I, and return to Washington to.night.'
'And with that the trains steamed con
trary ways
'1 found cut tho matter at Washington
that same cveninj'. The conspirators had
arranged to forco an insult upon DoiHas.
and then, if he ehalenaed. ho would lose
tho vote of the North. If ho refused, no-
l. J .1. f ...... , , . 1 , . n,.
uuuy in inc ,-ouiu wouia toucn mm. l lie
creature r,f the conspirators to insult Doug
las, was G N. Fitch, of Indiana, still
alive, I believe, and he had done it in ex
ecutive session, the day beforo I reached
the city. Douglas had demanded a retrac
tion or a Celii, and Tom Hawkins had
been sent for.
'I found the Douglas household all warm
for the duel. Mrs. Donsrlas and theCutt-
Ees aud everybody was bouud to see Ste
phen out. His wife said he might lose the
Presidency or anything before he should
ho beaten by Jesse Bright and old Buck's
myrmidons. The bill it hux had been
passing all clay bctwist the Luclianan head-
quarters in the . ico Presidents room ot
the Capitol, and ono of tho committee
rooms where the Douglas men sat in coun-
cil. ilie mes;cn'cr tor Uouslas was Ho'"-
cr, Pryor, aud for Fitch, Judah P. Bcuja-
ruin.
"Tho Fitch gang were Slidel, who was
the arch conspirator, aud bloodthirsty as a
bad ; Bright, who was jealous of Douglas,
and dispised him; Cotb, eto. When Ju-
dah P. Benjamin, the second day, came
into toe committee room with another let-
ter, and, amongst Richardson, of Illinois.
Pugh, Pryor, Brown, and tho rest. saw
Tom Hawkins glancing at him, they say
he shrank back and turned pale. Then
he put out his hand in a Bveophautish way
and said :
Why, Mr. Hawkins, I'm very glad to
see you.
'Well, we all met that night, aud Tom
went in place Pryor, to arrange the partic-
ulars, and force a fight or peace. AVe knew
by his look that tho thing was serious.
They knew it was coming to blood by Tom's
bi9;eves. They wrote a retraction. He
had it in ten minutes.
'We arranged to try Douglas' courage
by telling him that the duel was to come
off next morning. Tom, who was a sim
ple hearted fellow, raised objection to this,
and refused to have anything to do with it.
We entered Douglas' library, and there he
sfood, with as pleasant a smile as ever I saw,
waiting to Lear the result. 1 - "
"Mr, Douglas," said I, 'how do you feel V
Yery well. What is the news ?'
'Youareto go to the field to-morrow
morning, at 5 o'clock, and fight with shot
guns. , ,
W all looked at him piercingly, to see
how he stood it.
'Very well ho said. 'Make all the ar
rangements.
vvewatcnea mm again, and ne was
quiet a3 I ever saw him, almost cheerfnl.
lorn Hawkins could 6tand it no more. He J
said
'Mr. Douglas, they have retracted 1
I 'Douglas drew a sigh, whether of relief
j or regret I do not know. He was a pplen
I did shot with a fowling piece, and he
I would have fought his weight in wild eats
rather than be ciowded out of tho path of
his ambition. He was the greatest leader
I any party ever had, to my mind. Do you
want to be introduced to Tom Hawkins?'
'No,' said I, without thinking about it,
"If it's offensive, I prefer not to know Tom
Hawkins !
Faith in American Ideas.
The most touching story ever told ot
Abraham Lincoln relates how, a few months
after his death, negroes in Cuba, recently
kidnapped from Africa, and unable to speak
either English or Spanish, were found
wearing photographs of the dead President
upon their bosoms. They worshipped his
memory; they held the confident belief
that he would, ere long, rise from the dead
and como to enfranchise them. In some
sense tho weary and tho troubled of every
European nation cherish the same ideal of
the United States. Shall wo not extend it
to the swarming Orient ? Let us teach the
poorest and humblest man in that cradle
and beehive of the race likewise to reward
j our soil as a waiting refuge, our flag as a
talisman, which, the moment his feet are
planted under it, will send all his burden of
slavery and casto and want crumbling to
the ground, as rolled tho load of sin from
the shoulders of Christian when he first
stood before the cross. In tho sharp ex
periences of the war have taught us any
thing, it is that democratic institutions,
based upon free suffrage, can stand any
train. Edmund Quincy, after hinting at
high ability, character, and culture of the
old Federalists, add", in a remark of pro
found truth and significance: "It was
their little faith in ideas that caused their
disappeaaanco from the world of American
P0'ii:'C3 aci il was his unbounded faith in
ideas that gave to Thomas Jefferson, in
spite of all his faults of character and his
inconsistencies and errors of public conduct,
that controlling power over the minds of
men which has not died with him, but is
giving direction and shape to tho history
not only of his own country, but of all
Christendom." Let us have faith in ideas,
in human nature, and in the American sys
tem. fA. D. Richardson.
Saporstition h Gsraaay
A German paper records a curious case
of superstition which occurred recently in
Stargard, East Prussia. Three old women
0f tho neighborhood wero believed to ros-
Uoss supernatural powers. One of them
gave a piece of meat to a youug girl, who
soou after fell sick with fever. Tho girl's
brother took the supposed witch to her
uouaiue anu commanuea ner to cure tlie
fever. Tho woman protested her inability
to do so, when he severely beat and stab-
bed her. The girl subsequently died, and
1,10 brother was arrested for tho assault
When in the presence of the magistrate,
he vehemently persisted in the assertion
l',at bis sister had been bewitched, and de
mandeu that the old woman should bo la
Ken t0 tllG dwell and there bo made to
swear her innocense before a table on
which twelve loaded muskets were to be
ranged, with tho muzzles pointed at her
body. If she sworo falsely, ho decla red
that one ot the twelve barrels would bo
discharged of its own accord and kilL her.
l no court reiusea to sanction this curious
experiment, but in consideration for the
bereaved family, allowed tho culprit to es-
eape with a few weeks imprisonment.
'''ven la Prussia the old Folk Lore, with
its legends and its superstitious beliefs still
holds its own' against tho more modern
teachings of the sohool-room.
Salt Lake, Juno 20. A gentleman
just returned from Omaha reports the fol
lowing : 1
On Wednesday, June 15, as the railroad
train approached the Platte river, the engi
neer discovered a band of Indians, about
three hundred strong, and mounted, cross-
ins the track. As the train nearnd th
Indians they began to yell, and the eni-
neer, supposing that they wero about to at-
tack the train, put on "more steam and
dashed through the crowd, killing thirteen
Indians aud as many ponies.
Pttorissoa Jas. Syme, Surgeon to her
Majesty in Scotland, is dead, at the age of
seventy. lie was the author of many inr
portant works on surgery,
.liveD .lluf si nmuloo smT
Timing a Past Horse-Cure forthe.Eac
ing Fever.
A friend of ours, who owns a fine farm
near Camp Dcnnison John we will call
him is fond of horses, and has a private
race-track whore he puts his fast nags
through a course of equine sprouts. Those
residing in the vicinity who have, or think
they have, fast nags, frequently resort to
this race-track for the purpose of testing thft
speed of their horses. Mow, John is a bit
of a wag, and numerous are the jokes he
has played off upon his friends in "timing"
their horses with his patent stop-watch.
Every man likes to think be has got a fast .
horse, and when told that his horse has
made a mile in 2:30 when he had no idea
he could get below tho fifties, he naturally
feels elated, don't you see especially when
so grave and earnest a man as our friend
John holds the wateh, and that watch is
known the country round for its reliabil
ity. If anybody else were to time the speed
of tto nags they might question its authen
ticity, but John no one thought of ques
tioning him or his patent watch. One day
last fall a neighboring farmer, who couldn't
sleep very well nights beoause he had got
it into his head that a colt he owned Was
fast, brought the said colt to John's race
track to try him. John very accomodating
ly held his patent Watch while the owner
of tho colt drove around the track.
'Two-thirty-eight 1' yelled John as the
colt passed the mile-polo
'What's that V shouted the man in as
tonishment. 'Two minutes and thirty-eight second3
exactly,' replied John, without moving a
muscle.
This was so much better then the
colt proprietor had anticipated that he
couldn't believe it possible, and said so.
'Hold the watch yourself, then,' said John
somewhat gruffly, 'If you can't believe mo.'
'Oh repliod the man, hastening to con
ciliate, '1 don't qucstioa your meaning in
tho matter, but you might have made a
mistake on the watch.' , , .
Don't you know this is a patent stop
watch ?' inquired John, 'It can'i make
any mistake ; there, you see, it has stop
ped on two minutes thirty-eight seconds.
I'Jl drive around and you time the colt.'
Now the interior of the track was planted
with coru, and a forest of cornstalks reared
their lofty heads there, completely obstruct
ing more than a very limited view of the
track. The word 'go' was given, and John
'got.' As soon as he was out of sight of the
others he darted through a woods that tra
versed the corn-field, cutting off nearly
halt the distance, so that when ho reached
the mile-post the owner ot the colt fairly
danced with joy as he roared :
" Two-tliirty-oiic-and-a-half, by holcey !"
Tho man was nearly wild with excite
ment, refused five hundred dollars John
offered for tho colt on the spot, and hurried
home with bis newly-found treasure. Ho
was on a look-out for some fair whero
lie was couGJent of being able to 'scoop
'cm all.' as ho said. The Blanchester Fair
came off in a little while, and their was our
hero with his wonderful colt. He put him
in against tho fasteit trotter they had, bet
his money freely, and to his own horror aud
the uproarious mirth of tho crowd, his fast
colt was nearly five minutes in getting
around. In utter disgust lie sold the colt
for a moderate sum, and is entirely cured
of tho fast-horse complaiut, He don't know
to this day that John stopped his 'stop
watch' on him, and he is ignorant of tha
short cut through tho corn-field, but he
don't want any more fast horses. John has
cured several embryo horsemen in the same
way, and looks upon himself as a benefac
tor cf his race if he isu't of the horse race. :
His treatment is expensive but effaotual.
GrU."
Slurs on WoMiN.-Of all the evils prev
alent among young men, we know of nona
more blighting in its moral effects than to
speak slightingly of the virtue of women.
Nor is there anything in which young men
are so thoroughly mistaken, as the low esti
mate they form of the integrity of women
not of their own sisters aud mothers, but of
others, who, they forget are eomebody
else's mothers and sisters. As a rule no
person who surrenders to this debasing
habit is to be trusted vith any enterprise
requiring iutegrity of character.' Plain
words should be spoken on this point, for
the evil is a general one, and deep rooted.
If young men are sometimes thrown into
the society of thoughtless or lewd women, '
they have no right , to measure all other
women by what they sea of these, than thev
would have to estimate the character cf '
honest and respectable oitizens by the dd.
velopments of crime in our police courts. '
Let our young men remember that tha
chief happiness of life depends upon their
utter faith in women. '