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SUNBURY, PA.. FRIDAY ' MORNING, APRIL 24, 1874.
New Series, Vol. 6, '. 1.
1 Old Neries, Vol. 35, Xo. 4.
yatoirn
ItLTlMOItE I.H li
JK. JOnNSTOV,
IIOSIMTAI,
Physician of this ccle'irated Institution, hag
iwovered the niort certain, poeily, pleasant and
nectual rtmcdv in the world tor all
DISEASES OF IMPRUDENCE.
Weakness ot the Back or L'.nilm, Strictures
flection of Kidneys and lihirhler, In vol mi
try Dieeliurges, Iinpotcnev. General DcbiH
, Nervousness, Dvspepsv, Languor, Low
iirit, Conasion of Ideas, Palpitation
e Heart, Tlmidltr, Trciiib'mirs, Dimness
' Siffht or Giddiness, Disease of the Head,
iiroat, Xoee or Skin. A flections of Liver, Lunirs,
omach or Bowels these terrible Disorders
icing from the Solitary Haliils of Youth those
cret and solitary practices more fatal to their
dims than the song ol Syrens to the Manners
Ulysses, blitrhtins; their nioet brilliant hopes
anticipations, rendcriui; marriage, Ac., iiuoS'
inc.
lOUXGMEX
jicciallv, who have become the victims of Soli
ry Vice, that dreadful and destructive habit
lich annually sweeps to an untimely rrave
ousands of young men ef the mot exalted
lents and brilliant intellect, who miirht other
pe hare entranced listening Senates with the
unders of eloquence or waked to ecKtacy the
ing lyre, may call witn lull commence.
MARRIAGE.
Married Persons or Young Men contemplatln
irriage, aware of Physical Weakness, (Loss
Procreative 1 ower ImpoteucT), Nervous Ex
ability, Palpitation, Onrunic Weakness, Ner
ub Debility, or any other Disqualification
edilj relieved.
lie who places himself under the care of Dr. J.
.y religiously confide in his honor as a gentlc-
.11, and coulidently rely unon hie skill asaPhr.
ORGANIC WEAKNESS
potency, Loks of Power, immediately Cured
t full icor Kestored.
This Distressing Affection which renders Life
ierableand marriage impossible is the penalty
d bytne licttma 01 improper indulgences.
u hit- persons are too pt to commit excesses
tn u being aware of the dreadful conseqenccs
t may ensac Now, who that understands
subject will pretend to deny that the power
procreation is lost sooner by those falling into
iroper habits tban by the prudent I besides
ig deprived the pleasures of healthy offspring,
most serious and destructive symptoms to both
t and nun d arise, ihcsrstem becomes dc
ged, the Physical and Mental Functions
akened, 1a of Procreative Power, Nervous
lability, Dyspepsia, Palpitation of the Heart,
igestion, Constitutional Debility, a Wasting
he trame, Cough, Consumption, Decay and
th.
CURE WARRANTED IN TWO DAYS,
ersons ruined in health by unlearned pretcu
, who keep llieiu trillinc month after month,
n g poisonous and injurious compounds
ild apply'imroediutcly.
DR. JOHNSTON,
utter of the Royal College of Surgeons, Lon
Graduated from one of the most eminent
cges in the ITnited States, and the trreater
of whose ire has been spent in the hospitals
ndon, Pns, Philadelphia and elsewhere,
effected some of The most astonishing cures
were ever known ; many troubled with ring-
in the bead and ears when asleep, great
ousness, being alarmed at sudden soauds,
fulness, with frequent blushing, attended
times with derangement of mind, were cured
ediatelv.
TAKE PARTICULAR NOTICE.
. J. addresses all those who have Injnrrd
selves by improper indulgence and solitary
s, which ruin both body and mind, unfitting
for either business, study, society or mar-
esx are some of the sad and melancholy
s produced by early habits of youth, viz:
vness of the Back and Limbs, Paint in th
aud Head, Dimuess of Sight, Lo of Mus
Power, Palpitation of the Heart, Dyspcpsy,
;us Irritability, Derangement of DUrestive
lions, General Debility, Symptoms of Con
dion, Ae.
staj.lt The fearful cfTccts on the mind
. tucb M be dreaded Loss of Memory, Con
l of Ideas, Depression of Spirits, Evil
odings, Aversion to Society, Self-Distrust,
of Solitude, Timidity, Ac., are some of the
iroduced.
DUSAaus of persous of all ages can now
wluat it the cause of their decliniug health,
their vigor, becoming, weak, pale, nervous
luaciated, having a singular appearance
the eyes, cough and symptoms ofcousuurp-
YOUNG MEN
have injured th mselves by a certain prac
dulgcd lo .when alone, a habit frequently
d from evil companions, or at school, the
. of which are nightly felt, even when
, and if not cured, renders marriage Impos
and destroys both mind and body, should
immediately.
it a pity that a young man, the hope of kit
-y, the darling of his parents, should be
icd from all prospects and enjoyments of
y the consequence of deviating from the
f nature and indulging in a certain secret
Such persons vvt-T before contemplating
MARRIAGE,
that a sound mind and body are the most
ary requisites to promote connubial happl
Indeed without these, the journey through
comet a weary pilgrimage ; the prospect
darkens to the view ; the mind becomes
ved with dcsiwir and tilled with thumelan
relleetion, that the happiueas of another
S blighted Willi our os ii.
A CERTAIN DISEASE,
n the misguided and imprudent votary of
re finds -that he has imbibed the heeds of
inful disease, It too often happens that an
d sense of hme, or dread of discovery,
him from applying to those who, from
,on and respectability, can alone befriend
.Iayini! till the constitutional symptoms ot
rrid disease make their appearance, such
rsted sore throat, diseased nose, noctnral
i the head and limbs, dimness of sight,
-, nodes on the shin bones and arms,
s on the head, face and extremities, pro
Ifwlth frightful rapidity, till at last the
rvf the mouth or the bones of the nose fall
the victim of this awful disease becomes
1 object of commiseration, till death putt
d to his dreadful suffering, by sending
" that Undiscovered Country from whence
eller returns."
a metuncholy fact that thousand DIE
10 this terrible disease, through falling
: bauds of Ignorant or unskillful PRE
;R8, who, by the nse of that deadly Poi
renry, &c, destroy the constitution, and
le of curing, keep the unhappy sutlerer
after month taking their noxious or ic-
comfiounds, and insleacl or being restored
ewal of Life Vigor and ibipplness, iu des
ve him with ruined Health to t-iirb over
xg disappointment,
ch, therefore, Dr. JellNMOS pledges liiiu
reoerve the niot-t Inviolable Secrecy, and
i extensive practice and observations in
it Hospitals of Europe, and the first lc
.itry, viz : England, France, Philadelphia
where, it enabled to oiler the most cer
edy and ell'ectual remedy In the world
iseases of imprudence.
DR. JOHNSTON.
1, NO. 7. 3. FREDERICK STREET.
Rjal-TIMOKG, M. D.
d side going from Baltimore street, arfew
m the comer. Fail not to observe name
iber.
o letters received unless postpaid and
lg a stamp to be use(! on the reply. Pcr
iug should state age, and send a portiou
'.seincnt describing symptoms,
are so many Paltry, Designing a-nd
t Impnstcrs advertitiug themstuves as
is. trilling with and ruining the l.ealth
, 10 unfortunately fall into their power,
Johnston deems It necessary to say es-
0 those unacquainted with his reimta
his Credentials or Diploma always
lis office.
.DORSEMENT OF THE PRESS,
ny thousands cured at this Establish
ir after year, and the numerous im
ureical Operations performed by Dr.
witnessed by the representatives of the
many otter papers, notices of wlaVh
arei atrain and again before the publV,
1 standing as a gentleman of character
risibility, is a sutheient guarantee to t he
Shiu diseases speedily cured.
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APPLE JACK,
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SCOTCH WHISKY,
CATAWBA WINK,
OLD PORT WINE,
CHAMPAGNES,
SEGARS, AC.
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AMI COTSTY SOLICITOK.
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Pa. Collections and all legal business promptly j
attended to.
JAMES HEARD, 'l
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office in Ilaapt's building, South East Corner j
of Market S.p.iare, Minbury, Pa.
Special Attention Taid to CVii.lections.
JAMFS II. SIoOKVlTT,
Vitornet at Law and
United States Commissioner. Ollice with S.
B. Boyer, Esq., in Bright Building, Suubury.
Pa. Aug. ';;. '73. l.v.
AX. II It ICE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
AND ACTING JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
Next Door to Judge Jordan's Residence, Chest
nut Street, Suubury, Pa.
Collections aud all legal matters promptly at
tended to.
J EREMIAH SNYDER.
ATTORNEY Al LAW, AND
ACTIXU J 1ST ICE OF THE PEACE.
Con veyancing.the collections of claims, writings,
and all kinds of Legal business will be attended
to carefully and with despatch. Cau be consult
ed in the English and German language. OHlcc
formerly occupied by Solomon Malick, Esq., op
posite City Hotel, Suubury, Pa.
March 9, 1B73- lj.
GA. IIOTIIORF,
Attorncv-at-Law,
GEORGETOWN,
Northumberland Co., Penna.
Can be consulted in the English and German
languages. Collections attended to in North-
nmberland and adjoining counties.
Also Agent for the Lebanon allev Fire Insu
rance Company. nihl5
TH. It. KANE, Attorncv nl Law, SUN-
BURY, PA. Office in 'Market Square,
(adjoining the olHce of W. I. Grccnomrh, Esq.,)
Professional butiucss iu this aud adjoining coun
ties promptly attended to.
Suubury, March 10, l.-iy
WTCTP AC KER,"
Attorney at Law,
Sunbury, Pa.
November t, 1S72. tf.
Sit. IIOVEIC. Attorney and Counsellor
at Law. Rooms Na. 23 Second Floor,
Bright s Building, SUNBURY, PA. Professiona
business attended to, in the courts of Northum
oerland and adjoining counties. Also, in the
Circuit and DMnct Courts for the estcrn Dis
trict of Pennsylvania. Claims promptly collect
ed. Particular attention paid to catet In Bank
ruptcy. Consultation cau be had in the Ger
man language. mar., '71.
L.
II. KASE, Attorncv at Law, SUN
BURY, PA., olUcc in Master's Building
near the Court House. Front Room up stairs
above the Drug Store. Collections made In Nor
thumberland and adjoining counties.
Sunbury, Pa., June 8, l!s7J.
Gil. C'A IMV A LEA OEK, Market Street,
SUNBURY, PA.
Dealer in Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils,
Glass, Varnishes, Liquors, Tobacco, Cigars,
Pocket Books, Uaines, c.
SI'. WOLVERTO.V, Attorney at Law.
Market Square, SUNBURY.PA. Profession
al business in this and adjoining count ict prompt-
y attended to.
Hit. MANSER, Attorney at Law, 6UN-
BURY, PA. Collections attended to in
the counties of Northumberland, Union, Snyder,
Montour, Columbia and Lycoming. apIlO-b'.l
S
OLOMOX MALICK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Ofllcc at his residence on Arch street, one square
north of the Court Hou&e, near the Jail, 8UN-
BLKY, PA. Collectiont aud aU professional
usiness promptly attended to in this and adjom-
ng counties. Consultations can be had In I ue
German language. July27-1872.
W. ZIEOI.EK. L. T. KOUIIIVACH.
ZIEULER V ROIIRRACII,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Office in Haupt's Building, lately occupied by
Judge Rockefeller aud L. T. Rohrbacb, Esq.
Collections and all professional business
promptly attended to in the Courts of Northum
berland and adjoining counties.
Dec. 2. 171.
DR. V. M. M ARTIX, Office in Drug
Store, Clement House Block, Ollice hours :
from 11 a. in., to 1 p. m., and ironi G to 9 p. tn.,
at all other hours, wheu not Professionally en
gaged can be found at residence, corner of Front
and Penn street, SUNBURY, PA. Particular
attention given to surgical cases. Will visit
Patients either in town or country.
otcls aub Jjcstanrants.
CRAWFORD IIOI SE, Cor. Third and
Mulberry. Business Centre. Williamsport,
Pa.
D. B. ELSE .t CO., Proprietor.
June 20. JS
U SITED STATES HOTEL, W. F.
KI rCHEN, Proprietor. Opposite the De
pot SIIAMOKIN, PA. Every attention given to
travellers, and the best accommodations given.
April 5, 1S73. tf
ASIIINGTOX IIOISE, C. NEFF
Proprietor, Corner of Market A Second
Streets, opposite the Court House, Sunbury,
Pa. May'JS,770.
ALLEGHENY IIOISE, A. BECK,
Proprietor, Nos.8I2 and 814 Market Street,
above eighth, PHILADELPHIA. Terms, 2
per day. He respectfully solicits your patron
age. " Janti'72.
TATIOXAL HOTEL.
AUGUSTUS j
WALD, Proprietor, Georgetown North'd i
County, Pa., at the Station of the N. C. R. W. j
Choice wines aud cigars at the bar.
The table Is supplied with the best the market'
affords. Good stabling and attentive ostlers. f
HI M M E L'S K ESTAI RAXT, !
LOUIS HUM MEL, Proprietor,
Commerce St., SIIAMOKIN, PENN'A. j
Having just refitted the above Saloon for the i
accomodation of the public, Is now prepared to
serve "jls friends with the best refreshments, and
fresh Lager Beer, Ale, Porter, and all other malt j
quors. j
,
jjjnsiness (Jarbs.
W. S. IIHOAKS. J. I'ALkEK UA.VH '
-ITT" S. K1IOADS A: CO.,
IiETAIL DEALERS Or
ANTHRACITE COAL, SUNBURY, PENN'A.
Office wtTn Haas, Fagf.i.t Ac Co..
Ord-rs left at SeaUoItz A: Bro's., ollic Market '
tniet, will receive prompt attention. Country :
ustom respect full v eolieiled. !
Keli. 4. 1S71. tf.
ANTHRACITE COAll
ALEXTIXE DIETZ, Wholesale and!
V Retail dealer in every variety of
1
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ANTHRACITE COAL, UPPER WHARF,
SUNBURY, PENN'A.
AU kinds of Grain taken in exchange for Coal.
Orders solicited aud filled promptly. Orders left
at 8. F. Nevin's Confectionery Store, on Third
treet, will recieve prompt attention, and money
receiptedfor, the same as at the office.
DEXTISTRY.
G EOR ( i E M. II E N N ,
7i Stitiji.iwVt lhuhlhxrj, M'trlrt Sjunrt,
Slnbcry, Pa.,
1 prepared to do all kinds of work pertaining
to Dentistry. He keeps constantly on hand
a larce aortment of Teeth, and other Dental
material, from which he will be able to select,
and meet the wauts of his customers.
All work warranted to give satisfaction, or else
the money refunded.
The very best Mouthwash and Touth-Powder
kept on hand.
His references are the numerous patrons for
whom he has worked for the lat twelve years.
Suubury, April 21, 1H72.
ClOALI COAL! CO A LI GR A NT BROS. ,
Shipper and Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
WHITE AND RED ASH COAL, SUNBURY, PA.
low eb wrunr.;
Orders will receive prompt attention.
XEW COAL YARD.
rjnilE undersigned having connected the Coal
JL business with his extensive FLOLR& GRAIN
trade, is prepared to tupply families with the
VERY BEST OF COAL,
CHEAP FOR CAKIL
Egg, Stove and Nut, conttantly on hand. Griwu
taken in exchange for Coal.
J. M. CADWALLADLS,
Smabitry, Jan. 15, 1870. tf.
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elect IJoctrn.
THERE IS XO DEATH.
There is no death The stars go down
To rise upon some fairer sdiore ;
And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown
They shine forcvermore.
1 hrre is no death ! The dut we tread
Shall change beneath the Summer showers
To golden grain or mellow fruil.
Or rainbow-tinted flowers.
The granite rocks disorganize
To feed the hungry moss they bear.
The forest tree drink daily life
From out the viewless air.
There is no death ! The leaves may fall.
The flowers may fade and pass away ;
They only wait through wintry hours
The coming of the May.
There is no death ! An angel form
Walks o'er the earth with silent tread ;
He bears our best-loved things away.
And then we call them "dead."
He leaves our hearts all desolate,
He plucks our fairest, sweetest flowers ;
Transplanted into bliss, they now
Adorn immortal bowers. w
The bird-like voice, with joyous tones "
Made glad these scenes of sin and strife,
Singa now an everlasting song
Amid the tree of life.
And where he sees a smile too bright,
Or heart too pure for taint and vice,
He bears It to that world of light.
To dwell in Paradise.
t
Born uiUo that undying life, .-.
They leave ns but to come again
With joy we welcome them the same,
Except iu sin and pain.
And ever near ns, though unseen,
The dear, immortal spirits tread ;
For all tue boundless universe
Is life there is no dead.
Suliter Lytloii.
MARIAX'S FORTUNE.
George Hallowel, of Elmsborough, died
at the age of 80, worth 100,000. People
generally thought he had lived a very long
timo ; but they could not deny the fact that
he had improved the time, and got together
a very respectable fortune.
Early in his young manhood he had
married Estelle Cleaves, the daughter of a
poor actor ; and Borne incongruity of taste
or temper nobody knew which, for Hallo
wel kept his own secrets, and death long
ago had sealed the lips of his wife had
separated them after about ten" months of
married life.
The wife had gone forth nobody knew
whither, and Ilallowell had lived on his
sour, crusty and monotonous life in the old
home where he was born, and where be
fore him were born both' his father and
grandfather.
He never went into society, he received
no company, he had no friends and it was
a great wonder to whom he would give his
property when he was dead.
And when the announcement came that
the old man was gone, everybody pricked
up his or her cars, and i!ie wonder grer.
Three old servants nearly as old as
himself a man and two women, had al
ways been with him, and constituted all
the family he had.
The old male servant was named Gilbert,
and in his hands Mr. Ilallowell had left
his will.
The funeral was largely attended by the
whole ueighboihood ; aud, at its close, Gil
bert requested all those interested to re
main and hear the will read.
Of course, iu a matter like this, every
body was iutcrested, and old Gilbert had a
good audience.
Lawyer Secors read this will. It seemed
he had drawn it up a year baforc the testa
tor died. Divested of its formalities, it be
queathed handsome lift-, annuities to each
of his three servants, two thousand pounds
t each of the two churches iu the village ;
two hundred pounds for the support of
Jim, a large striped cat, which the old man
held in high regard, aud all the rest of the
property houses, lands, slocks, aud mo
ney was bequeathed, without reserve, to
Marian Easterly, the village schoolmis
tress. They were all stricken dumb with aston
ishment, and Miss Esterly was, perhaps,
more surprised than any of them.
A few words iu pencil, in old Halloweirs
own hand-writing, on the margin of the
will, explained his reason for this disposi
tion of the property.
"I have been friends with nobody" so
ran the margiual reference "aud jieople
have looked upou me as being destitute of
the attributes of humanity, and as it was
my owu fault, I make no complaint. Only
one of aU my towns-people have seen deep
enough beneath the surface to surmise that
old Ilallowell might have feelings of his
owu, and she has never passed me by with
out a kind good day. And once when I
passed her little garden she gave mo a
bunch of pausies. One I loved in youth
was fond of pausies, and I think of her al
ways when I see them. Aud so, as Marian
Esterly has treated me as if I had a soul, I
bequeath to her the property which it has
taken me a life-time to gather, and may
Heaven bless her in its possession.
All the villagers were jealous of Miss
Esterly, and all thought she had been very
well repaid tor a lew kind words auu a
bunch of pausies. But none could dispute
old Ilallowell's right to do as he chose with
his own ; aud so the poor schoolmistress
passed peaceably into possession.
Miss Esterly was an orphan, twenty
three years of age, tall and fiuc looking,
and with more character than is generally
giveu to one individual. Now that she
had the power, she asserted herself grand-
ly-
The Hallowell home place was put under
a series of valuable improvements which
soon changed its entire aspect. Decaying
trees were cut dowu, fresh young ones were
planted, a spacious flower garden, with
extensive graperies and green-houses flour
ished, where had been only a stretch of
dismal heath ; the stock in the stables was
overhauled, and great changes made, and
Hallowell House was rebuilt and remodeled
until it was the finest residence in the
couutry round.
.Miss Esterly kept the old servants who
shortly learned to adore her, but she added
new ones to the menage, and entertained
the visitors, who hastened to honor her, in
gracious and liberal style.
As a matter of course, the mistress of
Ilallowell House was not Ioug wanting for
lovers ; they came thick and fast some few
j perhaps, by her beauty and grace.
but
most of them keen on the scent after old
Ilallowell's gold.
Eut Marian Esterly had sense as well as
good looks, aud she was uot deceived by
their pretensions.
She remembered the time when the poor
schoolmistress might have sal evening
after evening at patties and social gather
ings, unnoticed and neglected by all these
obsequious, fine gentlemen who now pro
fessed to be deeply in love with her ; and
so she treated them all with a coolness
which drove them to the verge of distrac
tion. She had been just a 3ear mistress of Ilal
lowell, when one day old Gilbert came to
her with a troubled face, and asked an au
dience. She bade him sit down, and speak with
out restraint, but the old man made blun
dering work of it. Marian had to question
and encourage him continually, but at last
his story was told. In effect it was this :
When Estelle Ilallowell had died, years
and years before in an obscure Scottish vil
lage, she had left a son George nallowell's
! child, born three months after her separa
tion from him. This son had hated his
father for the wrong he had inflicted upou
Estelle, and had never made himself .known
to him ; and Mr. Ilallowell had lived and
died unconscious of the fact that ho was a
father.
This son had died two months previous,
leaving one son behind him George Hal
loweirs grandson and heir in law.
Clement Ilallowell that was the young
man's name was now a clerk in a bank
in Loudeti, on salary of one hundred and
fifty pouuds a year, and all unconscious of
the facts that by right of kin, he was the
heir to one hundred thousand pounds.
These facts old Gilbert had just learned
through a mui who had strolled to the vil
lage, pickiug up a living by strumming on
an ancient harp and singing a few old bal
lads. He had been a player iu company
with Estello's father, and had always, so
to speak, kept on the track of the family.
Some women would have doubted the old
stroller's story ; but Miss Esterly did not
She saw him herself, and got out of him
every minute particular.
Old Gilbert was greatly distressed.
"I thought it my duty to tell you, mad
am," he said to Marian ; "but I'd rather
have cut my head oft". I said to Tolly,
said I :
"It seems a wicked, burning shame to go
and disturb the poor young lady's peace,
now that everything is a flowing on so
beautiful." And said Polly to me :
"Gilbert, always do your duty, man, and
you'll be happy."
"iou did perfectly right to tell me, Gil
bert," said Miss' Esterly, kindly. "I
should have been very sorry if you had not.
There has been a great wrong done. Thank
Heaven, it is in my power to right it."
"What will you do, ma'am ?" abked the
man, though from his knowledge of Miss
Esterly's character, it is not difficult for
him to guess.
"Never you mind Gilbert," said she ; "1
will do what is right."
So Mio made a confident of Lawyer Se
cors, and caused him to set ou fool inqui
ries relative to young Clement Ilallowell.
The information which he gathered settled
the fact, beyond the shadow of a doubt,
that he was George Ilallowell's grandson,
and also that ho was a young man who
had led a noble and irreproachable life,
and, though very poor, he was respected
aud esteemed by all with whom he had
come in contact.
Then Miss Esterly caused a conveyance
of the Ilallowell estate to be drawn tip, and
by it she gave everything into the posses
sion of the heir-in-law. Her commands,
that he should come at ouce and attend to
his inheritance, were imperative; but it
was some time before Clement Ilallowell
could be induced to take advantage of his
good fortune.
It was uot until after Miss Esterly had
delivered everything into the hands of
Lawyer Secors as an agent, and had her
self left for a distant town, where a school
was offered her, that young Ilallowell came
down from London and took possession of
his own.
Shortly after Marian's school began iu
Westlake, she became acquainted with a
young gentleman named Hurke a poor
artist, handsome aud cultivated, but with
out money, friends or influence.
He secured board at the house next to
the one where Marian lodged aud he al
ways waited until her school was out for
the day before he took his walk around the
park by the beautiful lake ; and she always
went with him.
As a natural consequence, they fell in
love with each other, and Marian was so
happy in her choice that it never occurred
to her to lament the splendors she had lost
in renouncing the Ilallowell's inheritance.
Yonug l?urke was very eager for the
wedding not to be delayed ; and one sum
mer morning they were married quietly iu
the little church at Westlake, and then
they set out together lor her husband's
home. .
About this home he had never told her
I anvthing
neither had she inquired ; so
j you may understand she was very deeply
i iu love with him for now-a-days the es-
tablishmcul is often of iniinitely more con-
sequence to the young lady than the man
who goes along with it, by Way of incum
brance.
Marian was a little puzzled by one thing.
As she had stood in the church, aud listen
ed to the solemn words of the marriage
service, the name of the bridegroom, though
uttered by the clergyman iu a very low
tone of voice, had sounded new and strange
to her. She had not understood it ; never
theless, it had not sounded like plain John
Burke.
Seated in the train by her husband's
side, she asked him aboui it.
"The name is all right, darling,'1 he re
plied, squeezing her hand under the folds
of her shawl "new husbauds will do such
foolish things, you know ; don't trouble
your head about that."
So Marian dismissed it from her mind.
By and by she saw that they were Hear
ing Elmsboro', the town where her fortune
had been found and lost. She leaned out
of the window to get a look at familiar ob
jects. Her husband bent over her.
"Did you like Elmsboro', dear ?"
"Very much. I was very happy here."
"I am glad. It is my home our home,"
he said, quietly.
Surprise made her silent, and the stop
ping of the train at the station prevented
further conversation. A handsome car
riage and pnir of hores awaited them, and
in a very brief space of time Marian and her
husband were driven to Ilallowell House.
And there, drawn up in array on the
lawn were old Gilbert and Polly, and all
i the rest of them, waiiiug to welcome b:vck
j their old mistress.
: Marian turned to her husband, who with
a smiling face was presenting his wife to
! the servants.
J "What does it all mean ?"' she asked in
j a puzzled tone.
"Nothing except, that my name is Cle
ment Iurkc Ilallowell, and you are my
wife. Pardon my deception, but 1 fell iu
love with you before I saw you. I knew
that no ordinary woman would have sacri
ficed what you did from a sense of honor
and I resolved to know you. I felt sure
you would not prosper my suit if I was
known to you as the heir, so I was a poor
artist instead ; and, darling, I am a very
poor artist for I never drew a thing in all
my life. You know you used to tax ine
last summer with my miserable laziness,
but I was on an entirely different kind of
business from picture making. And you
say you forgive me ?"
She could do no better, she said, seeiug
that he had already settled everything his
own way ; ami she glided gracefully into
her own place as mistress" and Hallowell
House.
Siscflhncons.
Clay-Eating. A writer in the "Food
Journal," discoursing on strange dishes,
communicates some interesting notes as to
the employment and mode of preparation
of that strangest of all edible substances,
clay. Humboldt, ou the 6th of June, 1SO0,
spent a day at a station occupied by the
Otomass, a tribe of clay eaters on, the Oro
noco. He describes the earth eaten by
them as an unctuous, almost tasteless clay,
true potters' earth. This is carefully pick
ed, and kneeded into balls of from four to
six inches in diameter, which are then
baked before a slow lire, nutil the outer
surface becomes of a reddish color. The
earth is said to possess different kinds of
flavor, and it is selected by the palate al
most as carefully as our more dainty pro
visions. Before being eaten the balls are
moistened with water. The Otomacs,
however, do not appear to adopt this arti
cle of food from choice, nor do they eat it
the whole year round. When the waters
of the Oronoco and Meta are low they sub
sist ou turtles and fish ; but during the pe
riodical swelling of these rivers the Oto
macs devour enormous quantities of clay
balls, which are kept piled, up in heaps in
their huts. Ilumbcldt was informed that
an Indian would consume from three-quarters
to one a jd one-quarter pouud of this
food daily, without auy appreciable injury
to health.
The Otomacs are by no means singular
iu their adoption of earth as an article of
food, for the same practice prevails among
several other tribes, chiefly in the tropics.
It is etated by Humboldt and other trave
lers that the women employed in the small
village of Banco, ou the Magdiileiia, in
buruiug earthenware pots, contiiuiaily fill
their inoulhs with large lumps of clay. At
San lloja ;n Indian child was observed
which, according to the statement of its
mother, would hardly cat anything but
earth. The negroes of Guinea are also in
the habit of eating a yellowish kind of earth
called fooc. While the slave trade be
tweeu Africa and the West Indies was in
existence, these negroes on their arrival at
the plautatious, would endeavor to procure
some similar species of food, maintaining
that the earth they devoured was harm
less. It was found, however, that the
caw.w: of the West Indies had a delete
rious effect ou the health of those partaking
of it, and its use was strictly forbidden.
In Java the same practice prevails. In
1S47 fbnif! edible clay was sent for anaysis
from Samaraug to Berlin, aud was fouad
to be a frcsh-watei formation deposited in
tertiary limestone, and composed mostly of
animalcules. According to Labillardiere,
the natives of New Caledonia eat lumps of
a friable kind of soaps tone, iu which Vau
quelin detected a certain quantity uf cop
jier. Among some northern races, too,
clay eating prevails. A careful analysis of
the earth food of the Laplanders showed
that it contains a large portion of organic
matter from the o:r'" of infusorial ani
mals. Among the lower animals theearth
worm, and some others, are known to feed
upon earth ; and the Sjint'tnivs (heart ur
chin) .-frtiitWx (satnlworm) fill their sto
machs with sand. The chief use of clay in
the human economy would appear to be
for producing a distention of the walls of
the stomach,which seems to allay the pangs
of hunger. dnhtxv.
President Grant's Ancestral Ee
t -oi:i). A Hartford paper says that Mr.
Heath, of that city, has "recently been en
gaged in huntiug up President Grant's an
cestral record, tracing it back to Matthew
Grant, who came from England in the ship
Mary and John, to Dorchester, Mass., iu
1G3. Mr. Heath has written the record
from that time until the present iu the
most elaborate manner, with a liuo steel
pen, and is soon to place it handsomely
framed, upou exhibition iu the Capitol at
Washington. Mr. Heath traces the Presi
dent's alfeestryi from 1730 as follows : Mat
thew Grant removed to Connecticut in
in 10:'.i, aud with ethers formed the
Windsor colony iu Ki;51. .Tie died there iu
1781. Matthew married in 1032, Priscilla,
whose family name is not given. From
Matthew the succession is traced through
Samuel, his son, Samuel, Jr., Noah, first,
second, third, to Jesse Root Grant, of
Pennsylvania, who removed to Ohio in his
youth, where he married in 1821, Hannah
Simpson. His eldest soa, Ulysses S. Grant,
was born April '27, 18i2, at Point Pleasant,
Claremout county. To show that General
Grant belongs to a military family, it may
he said that his great-grandfather, Captain
Noah, second, served in the expedition
against Crown Point, in the year 1755, and
he was killed there. The President's
grandfather, Noah, third, served with dis
tinction in the Revolutionary war, among
the voluuteers from Connecticut, and in
1787 removed to Pennsylvania.
'Why did the general take you on his
staff?' was asked of a young Hussar not
long ago by an enthusiast. 'Oh, I'll tell
you because I cut 'Through the
ranks of the enemy, you hero !' interrupted
the enthusiast (she was a lady.) "Oh,
dear, no, nothing of the sort ; it was be
c?ui"e I cut up a turkey to well.
How a Senator was "Out" on Din
ner. Senator Nesmith, according to the
following experience, incident to having re
ceived ait invitation to dine lrm Judue
Holt:
Fully equipped he -repaired to the house
of the eminet jurist at seven o'clock p. m.
Ringing the door-bell, he was asked for his
name, which was given in a neatly writ'-eD
card don- at the National Hotel by ilic
card-writer, and the. guest was conducted
acroes a cold porch into a dimly-lit, cold
parlor. Here he sat. wondering how it
happened . that he was among the first
guests, aud getting chilled to the bone, for
it was a very cold night. In a few . min
utes he was joined by the Judge Advocate
General in a most extraordinary dinner
dress, consisting of a gown aud slippers
the last very much down at the heel. The
The chilliness of the room seemed to be in
creased by the entrance of the host, who is
generally as cold as au icicle, but on this
occaiiou seemed to be the North Pole. Af
ter a few minutes' conversation the host in
vited his sjjivering guest into the library,
where a wrm fire made them more com
fortable. For an hour the two dicussed
the condition of the Union, but Nesmith
saw no gesis arriving, and heard uo rat
tling of dishes. From eight till nine they
dwelt principally on our foreign relations,
and yet no dinner. From nine till ten the
conversation was desultory and miscella
neous, and yet no dinner. Nesmith, who
bad all his life been used to dining at noon,
had abstained on this day, and now found
himself hungry enough to eat his host.
Eleven o'clock came, and while Nesmith
tried his best to talk the host seemed to draw
withiu kinvself, and might have been taken
for a bronze statue but for tho monosylla
bles "Yes" and "No" that dropped out at
times like three-tunnies from a nail-machine.
In the midst of a spasmodic effort at a
sentence from Nesmith. Judge Holt sud
denly got up and said solemnly : "Senator,
you must excuse me, but I have an en
gagement." Nesmith jumped up with as
much alacrity as his weakness would per
mit, aud staggered out The Judge accom
panied him to the front door, and when
bidding him "good night," said :
"I hope. Senator, you will not forget our
little dinner party for to-morrow night."
"Holy Moses !" cried Nesmith, faintly,
"I thought it was to-night.."
"Dot Fellek Vot Tumble Mit Me."
A few days ago, in Boston, Kreitz meyer
Yon Schingle was arraigned in the muni
cipal court for selling beer. Wheu told
that the judge had fined him 10 and costs,
he came out from behind the bar of the
courts and said : "Now just listen to me
oud. I keeps one leetle places, von lager
beer und zigaers, uud 1 vas a couple ov
months back in my schtore von day, ven
a nize gentlemand corned in und tells me
of I keeps dot places. I say : Yes, sir,
und my name is Krietzmeyer Yon Schin
gle He write it down in a schmall book,
und in about a minute he went oud. Shar
Iey, a d d schmart veller vas in dare, und
he told mo 'of I dond knovred roe who dot
veller vos.' I said no.' Den Sharley says,
'Dot's a Schate polices,' und I says I vos
a damm vool dat 1 didn't 'see him.'
1 dold Sharley I 'did see him Cut Shar
ley say, 'dot I don't tumble to him, und
said ven de cop combed in again I should
tell him 'I vants to see him,' und if de cop
tumbled I would be all right. So ven de
cop come in agin I vas alone,und I dought
von vot Sharley said ; uud I said to dc po
lices, 'Look here polices, I vant to see you
und tumble mit you.' Dc Polices schmiled
und say, 'Dot's pizness' und hold his hand.
I shaked hands mit him, und axed him if
he vould tumble for me. He said 'ten dol
lars amoundt und de ziegars.' Und I
don't got treble mit dat veller till dis morn
ing, annoder veller tells me I should come
here und pay more moneys as ten dollars,
und schtop my beer bizness. Und I find
dat my friend what tumbled is gond away,
und dot don't got mc all nght, like he tells
me he vould.' Then heexc.laimed : 'Don't
tell me auy more about dese vree country,
vere you must 'tumble' at von man, und
'see' annoder one, und get 'pulled' by de
next' von und den must come to an old
mill, und see a lot more vellers, und den
pay de chudge ten dollar und costs. So
dat you 'schquare' it at the police office.
Himmel ! vot a dam schwindle ! und es
gibt einen grossen underschied swisher ei
nenDeutschen und einer Yangee."
Fan Flirtation. When a lady uses
her fan in an outward movement, that is,
away from her into space, it means that
she is married and you must not hope. The
contrary movement, inward, from space to
the body, means that she is free. If, how
ever, this inner movement, is made by fan
ning in a downward direction, it means she
is a widow ; if in an upward direction,
that she has never been married. A clos
ed fan, held upright, means "do as you
like." An open fan, resting on the breast,
means "silence." A closed fan, presented
to you horizontally, means "an invitation
presented by the small end, indifference."
With one leaf open, "friendship ;" two
open leaves, "sympathy ;" three, "love aud
passion." A "talking fan" should be com
posed of seven leaves, to correspond with
the seveu days of the week. The hour you
are expected at a rendezvous is intimated
by so many taps being made on the leaf
which represents the day. A closed fan
placed on the lips means "don't tell." A
circular movement of the fan means "we
are watched."
Medical Properties of Eggs. The
white of an egg has proved of late the most
efficacious remedy for burns. Seven or
eight successful applications of this sub
stance soothes pain and effectually excludes
the burned parts of the air. This simple
remedj seems preferable to collodion or
even cotton. Extraordinary stories are
told of the healing properties of a new oil
which is easily made from the yolk of hens'
eggs. The eggs are first boiled hard, and
the yolks are then removed, crushed and
placed over a fire, where they are carefully
stirred until the whole substance is just on
the point of catching fire, when the oil sep
arates and may be poured off. One yolk
will yield nearly two teaspoonfulls of oil.
It is iu general use among the colonists of
south Russia as a means of curing cuts,
bruises and scratches.
It will afford sweeter happiness in the
hour of death to have wiped one tear from
the cheek of sorrow, than to have ruled an
empire, to have conquered millions, or to
have en1nved the world,
A Drink in tue dark. One New
Year's night Chubb came home very late,
and wheu he went up stairs his wife and
children were in bed asleep. His iindrMs
ed as softly us lie could, anil th ii Ua ft-lt
thirsty ; Fortuuately he saw a goMetfui
standing ou the waiditlatid, placed there
for him evidently by Mrs. Chubb. He
seized it and drank the liquid iu two r
three huge gulps, but just as lie was drain
ing the goblf t ! gauged, dropjx.-d the giT"
to the IliHir, where it was shivered to atoms,
while be ejected something from his mouth.
He was certain that a live animal of soma
kind had been in the water, and that he
bad nearly s wallowed it. This theory was
confirmed when he saw the object which he
spit out go bounding over the . Moor. He
pursued it, kicking a couple of chairs over
while doing so, and at last he put bis foot
on it and held it. Of course Mrs. Chubb
was awake by this time and scared nearly
to death, and the baby was screaming at
the top of its lungs.- Mrs. Chubb got out
of bed and turned up the gas, and said :
"Mr. Chubb, what in the name of com
mon sense is the matter ?"
"It's a mouse, Louisa !" shouted Chubb -in
an excited manner. "It's a mouse iu
the goblet. I nearly swallowed it, but I
spit it out, and now I've got my foot on it.
Get a stick and kill it quick !"
Mrs. Chubb was at first disposed to jump
on a chair and scream ; for, like all wo
men, she feared a mouse as much as she
did a tiger. But at Chubb's solicitation
she got a broom and prepared to demolish
the mouse when Chubb lifted his foot. He
drew back and aimed a fearful blow at the
object and missed it. Then, as it did not
move, she took a good look at it. Theu
she threw down the broom, and after cast
ing a look of scorn at Chubb she said :
"Come to bed, you old fool ; that's not a
mouse."
"What d'you mean ?"
"Why, you simpleton, that's the baby's
India rubber bottle top that I- put in the
goblet to keep it sweet. You ought to be
ashamed of yourself carrying on in this
manner at one o'clock in the morning."
Nothing. New Uxdee the Sex.
Humboldt, in his "Cosmos," states that
the Chinese had magnetic carriages with
which to guide themselves across the great
plains of Tartary, one thousands years be
fore our era, on the principal of the com
pass. The prototype of the steam engine
has been traced to the eolipyle of the Hero
of Alexandria. The Romans used mova
ble types to mark their pottery and endorse
their books. Mr. Layard found in Nine
vah a magnificent lens of rock-crystal,
which Sir D. Brewster considers a true op
tical lens, and the origin of the microscope.
The principle of the stereoscope, invented
by Professor Wheatstoue, was known to
Euclid, described by Galen fifteen hundred
years ago, and more fully in lo99 A. D., in
the works of Baptista Porta. The Thames
Tunnel, though such a novelty, was antici
pated by that under the Euphrates at Ba
bylon ; and the ancient Egyptians had a
Suez canal. Such examples might be in
definitely multiplied, but we turn to pho
tography .ir Jd&JTOTTn nra "1 ou velfe
Inventions aux Expositions Universalles,"
ISoti, says a translation from German was
discovered in liussia, three hundred years
old, which contains a clear explanation of
photography. The old alchemists under
stood the properties of chloride of silver in
relation to light, and its photographic ac
tion is explained by Fabricius in "De Ku
bus Metellicis," loOG. The daguerreotype
process was antipated by De la Roche in
his "Giphante," 1700, though it was only
the statement of a dreamer.
The Food of IIi-mming-Bikcs. The
long bills of humming-birds have been held
by some naturalists to be tubes into which
they suck the honey from flowers by a piston-like
movement of the tongue. Mr.
Belt, the author of "The Naturalist in Ni
caragua," dissents from this view. The
humming-bird undoubtedly sucks honey
from tlowers, but its principal food is in
sects. Some species in Central America
are seldom seen about tlowers, and Mr.
Belt never examined the body without find
ing insects in its crop. The tongue, he
states, fjr one-half its length is composed
of semi-horney tissue, and cleft in two ; the
two halves are laid Hat against each other
when at rest, but cau be separated at the
will of the bird, and form a delicate pliable
pair of forceps, most admirably adapted to
picking out minute insects from among the
stamens of flowers. The woodpecker,
which has a similar extensive mechanism
for protruding its tongne to a great length,
uses it also to procure its food in this case
soft grubs from holes iu rotten trees ; and
to enable it to pull these out, the end of the
tongue is sharp and horny, and barbed
with short, stiff", recurved bristles.
When Men aue at tiieih Best. Dr.
Beard states that from an analysis of the
lives of a thousand representative men in
all the great brauches of human effort, he
made the discovery that the golden decado
was between 'M and 40, the silver between
40 and 50, the brazen between 20 and 30,
the iron between o0 and 00. The superi
ority of youth and middle life over did ago
in original work appears all the greater,
wheu we consider the fact that nearly all
the positions of houor and profit and pres
tige professorships and public stations
are iu the hands of the old. Men are not
widely known until loug after they have
done their work that give them their fame.
Portraits of great men are a delusion ; sta
tues are lies. They are taken when men
have become famous, which, on the aver
age, is at least twenty-five years after they
did the work which gave them their fame.
Original work requires enthusiasm. If all
the original work done by meu under 45
were annihilated, the world would be re
duced to barbarism.
A Georgian "uogro was riding a mule,
and when he came to a briJge the mule
stopped. "I'll bet you a quarter," said
Sambo, "I'll make you go ober dis bridge,"
and with that struck the mule over the
head, which made him nod suddenly.
"You take dc bet, deu ?" said the negro,
and contrived to get the stubborn mule
over the bridge. "I won dat quarter, any
how," cried Sambo. "But how will you
get the mouey ?"' asked a man who had
been close by, unperceived. "To-morrow,"
replied Sambo, "massa gib me a dollar to.
get corn for de mule, and I take the quar
ter ouL"
One who wishes the world to know what
he knows about farming, says that the
best way to raise strawberries is with a,
poon.