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SMBDRY. PA.. FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 29, 1875.
Sew Series, Vol. 6, Xo. 11.
Old Series, Yol. S3, Xo. 11.
A Vs V 13 T r A T
VTUtLi
HOSPITAL (
jn. jonxsTox, j
Physician of this celebrated Institution, 1ms j
discovered the most certain, speedy, pleasaut and
effectual remedy in the world for nil
DISEASES OF IMPRUDENCE
Weakness ot the Back or Limbs, Strictures,
Affections of Kidneys nd Bladder, Involnn
tary Discharges, Impotency, general uenin
tv," Nervousness, Dvspepsy, Languor, Low
Spirits. Confusion of Ideas, Palpitation of
the licart, Timidity, Tremblings, Dimness
of Sight or Giddiness, Disease of the Head,
Throat, Nose or Skin, Affections of Liver, Lungs,
Stomach or Bowels these terrible Disorders
arising from the Solitary Habits of Youth those
ecrei" and solitary practices more fatal to their
victims than the song of Syrens to the Mariners
of Ulysses, blighting their most brilliant hopes
of anticipations, rendering marriage, Ac, impos
sible. YOUNG MEN
especially, who have become the victims of Soli
tary Vice, that dreadful and destructive habit
which aunnally aweeps to an uutiniely grave
thousands of yonng men of the most exalted
talents and brilliant intellect, who might other
wise have entranced listening Senates with the
thunders of eloquence or waked to ecstacy the
living lyre, may call with fnll confidence.
MARRIAGE.
Married Persons or Young Men contemplating
marriage, aware of Physical Weakness, (Loss
of Procreatlve Power Impotency), Nervous Ex
citability, Palpitation, Organic Weakness, Ner
vous Debility, or any other Disqualification,
speedily relieved.
He who places himself under the care of Dr. J.
tuny religiously confide in his honor ns a gentle
man, and confidently rely tinon his ekLl as a Pbv
sician. OKGANIC WEAKNESS.
Impotency, Loss of Power, immediately Cured
and full Vigor Restored.
This Distressing Affection which renders Life
. miserable and marriage Impossible is the penalt y
paid by the victims of improper Indulgences.
Young" persons are too apt to commit excesses
from not being aware of the dreadful conscqences
that may ensne. Now, who that understands
t l.e subject will pretend to deny that the power
of procreation is lost sooner by those falling into
improper habits than by the prudent ? Besides
iwinz deprived the pleasures of healthy offspring,
the most serious and destructive symptoms to both
body and mind arise. The system becomes de
ranged, the Physical and Mental Functions
Weakened, Loss of Procreatlve Power, Nervous
Irritability, Dyspepsia, Palpitation of the Heart,
Indigestion, Constitutional Debility, a Wasting
of the Frame, Cough, Consumption, Decay aud
Death.
A CURE WARRANTED IN TWO DATS.
Persons mined in health by unlearned preteu
ders who keep them trilling month after month,
taking poisonous and injarions compounds,
thonld apply immediately.
DR. JOHNSTON,
Meml-er of the Royal College of Surgeons, Lon
don, Graduated from one of the most eminent
Col'eires in the United States, and the greater
.art of whose ife has been spent in the hospitals
of London, I ns, rmladcipnia ana elsewhere,
has effected come of the most astonishing cures
that were ever known ; many troubled with ring
ing in the head and ears when asleep, great
nervosisness, being alarmed at sudden sounds,
bashfii Inest, with frequent blushing, attended
sometimes with derangement of mind, were cured
Immediately.
TAKE PARTICULAR NOTICE.
Dr. J. addresses all those who have injurrd
t heniselves by improper indulgence and solitary
habits, which rnia both body and mind, unfitting
hem for either business, study, society or mar
riage. These are some of the sad and melancholy
-uect produced by early habits of youth, viz:
Weakness of the Back and Limbs, Pains in the
Back and ncad, Dimness of Sight, Loss of Mus
cular Power, Palpitation of the Heart, Dyspepsy,
Nervous Irritability, Derangement of Digestive
Functions, General Debility, Symptoms of Con
sumption, Ac.
Mf.ktallt The rcartm meets on tnc mma
tire mnch to be dreaded Loss of Memory, Con
fusion of Ideas, Depression of Spirits, Evil
Forebodings, Aversion to Society, Self-Distrust,
Love of Solitude, Timidity, Ac, are some of the
evils produced.
Thoisasos of persons of all ages can now
judge what is the cause of their declining health,
losing their vigor, Incoming, weak, pale, nervous
and emaciated, having a singular appearance
uhout the eyes, cough and symptoms ot consump
tion. VOUNG MEN
Who have injured th mselves by a certain prac
tice indulged In when alone, a habit frequently
learned from evil companions, or at school, the
rttects of which are nightly felt, even when
p sleep, and If not cured, renders marriage impos
sible, and destroys both mind and body, should
apply immediately.
What a pity that a yonng man, the hope of his
conntry, the darling of his parents, should be
snatched from all prospects and enjoyments of
lifs, by the consequence of deviating from the
pat h of natnre and indulging in a certain secret
babit. Sueh persons MrsT before contemplating
MARRIAGE.
reflect that a sound mind and body are the most
necessary requisites to promote connubial happi
ness. Indeed without these, the journey through
life becomes a weary pilgrimage ; the prospect
hourly darkens to the view ; the mind becomes
hadowcd with despair and filled with tbetnelau
vboly reflection, that the happinesi of another
become blighted with oar own.
A CERTAIN DISEASE.
BALTIMORi: LOCK
When the misguided and impmdent votary of
Vleasure finds that he has imbibed the seeds of
this painful disease, it too often happens that an
ill-timed sense of shame, or dread of discovery,
deters him from applying to those who, from
education ard respectability, can alone befriend
him, delaying till the constitutional symptoms of
this horrid disease make their appearance, such
us ulcerated sore throat, diseased nose, noctural
pains in the head and limbs, dimness of sight,
teafness, nodes on the shin bones and arms,
blotches on the head, face and extremities, pro
gressing with frightful rapidity, till at last the
palate of the mouth or the bones of the nose fall
in, aud the victim of this awfnl disease becomes
a horrid object of commiseration, till death puts
period to his dreadful suffering, by sending
him to "that Undiscovered Country from whence
no traveller returns."
It is a melancholy fact that thousand DIE
victims to this terrible disease, through falling
into the hands of Ignorant or unskillful PRE
TENDERS, who, by the use of that deadly Poi
son, Mercnry, &c, destroy the constltutiop, and
incapable of curing, keep the 'unhappy sufferer
TBonth aftir month taking their noxions or in
jurious compounds, and instead of being restored
to a renewal of Life Vigor and Happiness, In des
pair leave him with ruined Health to sigh over
his gelling disappointment.
To such, therefore, Dr. Johnston pledges him
elf to preserve the most Inviolable Secrecy, and
from his extensive practice and observations in
the great Hospitals of Europe, and the first in
this conntry, viz : England, France, Philadelphia
and elsewhere is enabled to ofler the mon cer
tain, speedy and effectual remedy in the world
tor all diseases of Imprudence.
DR. JOHNSTON.
t.yFKT., NO. 7, ft. FREDERICK STREET.
Baltimohe, M. D.
tjeft band side going from Baltimore street, a few
doors from the corner. Fail not to observe name
and number.
ir"No letters received unless postpaid and
containing a stamp to be used on the reply. Per
sons writing should state age, and send a portion
nf advlitisement describing symptoms.
There are so many Paltry, Designing and
Worthless Iropnsters advertising themselves as
Physicians, trifling with and ruining the l.ealtli
of all who unfortunately fall into their power,
tiiat Dr. Johnston deems it necessary to say es
pecially to those tin acq nu luted with his reputa
tion that his Credentials or Diploma aiwaya
bau in his office.
ENDORSEMENT OF TIIE PRESS.
The many thousands cured at This Establish
ment, year after year, and tlie numerous im
portant Surgical Operations performed by Dr.
Johnston, witnessed by the representatives of the
press and many other papers, notices of which
have appeared again and aga5n before the public,
besides his standing as a gentleman of character
and re possibility, is a sufficient guarantee to the
afflicted. Shin diseases spedlly cured.
April 8. 174. Iv
LIMBER ASI PI.4M0 MILLS.
Third Street, adjoining Philn. t Erie R. R., two
Sqnares North of the Central Hotel,
SUNBURY, PA.
IRA T. CLEMEXT,
IS ptepared to furnish every dcscnyition of lum
ber reqnircd by the demands of the public.
Having all the latest improved machinery for
niaaufacturlng Lunber, he is now ready to till or
ders f all kinds of
FLOORING, SIDING, DOORS SHUTTERS,
BASH, BLINDS MOULDINGS, VE
RANDAS, BRACKETS,
and all kinds of Ornamental SerowlWork. Turn
ing of every description promptly executed. Also,
I LRfiT. ASSORTMENT OF
BILL LUMBER.
HEMLOCK and PINE. Also, Shingles, Pickets,
Lathe, Ac.
Orders promptly filled, and shipped by Railroad
or otherwise. IRA T. CLEMENT.
dl-6$:1X
)rofc3sion;tI.
. Merrill Lain. Andrew II. Till. Frank. S. Msrr.
M, DILL at- MARIC,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
lu naupt'8 Building, Market Street,
SUNBURY,
ug.T,lS74.
Northumberland Co., Pa.
! TOSEIMIS. ARXOLD,
i f
ATTORNEY and COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
Liverpool, Perry county, Pa.
All bnsiness matters in the counties of North
umberland, Snyder, Union, Perry and Juniata
promptly attended to. Consultations can be had
in the German and English language.
april 17, 1874.-ly.
E'
DMUND DAVIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
SUNBURY, PENN'A.
Office iu Hanpt's Building, south side of Mar
ket street. . jnnc5,'74.-Iy.
.11. A. SOBF.lt.
ATTORNEY AT LAW
ANP COUNT V SOMCITOR.
Office on Front Street belovr Market, Sunbury,
Pa. Collections and all legal business promptly
attended to.
AMEN It E A R I.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office in Haupt's building, South East Corner
of Market Square, Sunbury, Pa.
Special Attention Paid to Collection.
JAMES II. JleREVITT,
Attorxet at Law and
Unitfd States Commissions. Office with S.
B. Bover, Esq., in Bright 's Building, Sunbnry.
Pa. Au2. 22. '73. 1.v.
Sm It RICE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
AND ACTING JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
Next Door to Judge Jordan's Residence, Chest
nut Street, Sunbury, Pa.
Collections mid all legal matters promptly at
tended to.
JEREMIAH SNYDER.
ATTORNEY AT LAW, AND
ACTIXtt JUSTICE OF TIIE PEACE.
Conveyancing,thecolli!ctiousof claims, writing,
and alf kinds of Legal business will be attended
to carefully and with despatch. Can be consult
ed in the Euglish and German language. Otlice
formerly occupied by Solomon Maliek. Esq., op
posite Cilv Hotel, Sunbttrv. Pa.
March 29, 1S73. ly.
G.
A. HOTDORF,
Attorney-at-Law,
GEORGETOWN,
Northnmlwrland Co., Peuna.
Can be consulted In the English and German
languages. Collections attended to in North
umberland and adjoining counties.
Also Agent for the Lebanon Valley Fire Insu
rance Company. mhl5
nn II. II. KASE. Attorney at Law, SCN
J BURY, PA. Otlice iu Market Njuarc,
(adjoiuiug the oilice of W. I. Grcenongh, Esq.,)
Professional bnslne in this and adjoining comi
ties promptly attended to.
Sunbnry, March 16, lS72.-ly.
W. C. PACKER,
Attorney at LaT,
Sunbury, Pa.
November 9, 1872. tf.
a.
B. BOYER. Attorney and Counsellor
at Law. Kooms o. a fce.cond rloot,
Briaht's Building. SUNBURY, PA. Professiona
business attended to, in the courts of Northutn
oerland and adjoining counties. Also, in the
Circuit and DMrict Court for the Western Dis
trict of Pennsylvania. Claims promptly collect
ed. Particular attention paid to rate In Bank
ruptcy. Consultation can 1s had in the Ger
man language. mar2.V71.
L.
II. KASE, Attorney at Law, SUN
BURY, PA., office, in Master's Building
near the Conrt House, frront Koom up stairs
above the Drug Store. Collections made iu Nor
thumberland and adjoining counties.
Sunbury, Pa., June 8, 1872.
SP. WOLVERTOX, Attorney at Law.
Market Square, SUXBURY,PA. Profession
al business in this and adjoining counties prompt
y attended to.
HB. JlASSER, Attorney at Law, UN-
BURY, PA. Collections attended to in
the eonnties of Northumberland, Union, Snyder,
Moutour, Columbia and Lycoming. apllfMW
gOI.OttO .IIALICK.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Office at his residence on Arch street, one square
north of the Court House, near the jail, SUN
BURY", PA. Collections and all professional
business promptly attended to in this and adjoin
ing counties. Consultations can be had in the
German language. July27-1H7'J.
o. w.
ZiriGLER. I T. K0UKBACH.
ZIEGLER cV ROIIRBACII,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Office in HaupUs Building, lately ocenpied by
Judge Rockefeller and L. T Rohrbach, Esq.
Collections and all professional business
pnmptly attended to in the Courts of Northum
berland and adjoining counties.
Dee. 2, 1S71.
Br. A. C. CLARK.
IN Mrs. Donncl"s building, up stalls, above T.
11. B. Kasc's law office, opposite the Court
House, Sunbury, Pa.
Jui.e 13. 1S74. C nios. pd.
GB. CA D WALL A DER.Market Street ,
SUNBURY, PA. ;
Dealer In Drug, Medicines, Paints, Oils,
Glass, Varnishes, Liquors, Tobacco, Cigars, j
Pocket Books. Dairies, Ac.
DR. C. M. MAICTIX, Office, in Drug j
Store, Clement House Block, Office hour :
from 11 a. m., to 1 p. m., aud from C to t p. m., !
at all other hours, when not Professionally en-
aged can he fonnd at bis resid'-ncc, on Chestnut )
Street, SUNBURY, PA. Particular attention
given to surgical cases,
either In town or conntry.
Will viit Patients
hotels nxitt licstaurants.
CSlEMEXT ilbl SE, fhU-d Street beTow
J Market, Sunbury, Pa. PETER S. BUR
RELL, Proprietor. Rooms neat and comfortable.
Table
ibles supplied wit h the delicacies or the season i
id the waiters attentive, and obliging. j
fcuuqury, .lan. ., Ibto. ,
and l
TTXITED STATES HOTEL,
W. F.
he De-
J KI TCI! EN, Proprietor. Opposite the
pot SIIAMOKIN, PA. Every attention given to
travellers, and the best accommodations given.
April 5.1H-3. tf
ALLEGIIEXY IIOCSE. A. BECK,
Proprk;tor, Noa.812 and 814 Market Street,
above eighth, PHILADELPHIA. Terms, t3
per day. He respectfully solicits your patron
age. Jan0'72.
N
JTATIOXAL HOTEL
AUGUSTUS
WALD, Proprietor, Georgetown North'd
rorth'
R. W
County, Pa., at the Station of the N. C,
Choice wines and cigars at the bar.
The table is supplied with the best the market
afford. Good stabling and attentive ostlers.
HIM MEL'S RESTAIRAXT,
LOUIS HUMMEL. Proprietor,
Commerce St., 8UAM0KIN, PENN'A.
Having Just refitted the above Saloon for the
accomodation of the public, is now prepared to
serve Ills friends with the best refreshments, and
fresh Lager Beer, Ale, Porter, and all other malt
quors.
1
ustness (farbs
S. UHOADS. J. PA(KI:K HAAS
w.s-
RIIOADS A CO.,
RETAIL DEALERS OF
ANTHRACITE COAL, SUNBURY, PENN'A.
OrncE witti Haas, Faoki.t fc Co.,
Orders left at Seaskoltz & Bro's., office Market
trect, will receive prompt attention. Country
nstom respectfully solicited.
Feb. 4, 1S71. ti'.
ANTHRACITE COAL!
VALEXTIXE DIETZ, Wholesale nnd
Retail dealer in every variety of
ANTHRACITE COAL, UPPER WHARF,
SUNBURY, PENN'A.
Alt kinds of Grain taken in exchange for Coal.
Orders solicited and filled promptly. Orders left
at 8. F. Nevln's Confectionery Store, on Third
treet, will recleve prompt attention, and money
rcceiptedfor, the same as at the oilice.
CRAWFORD HOI SE, Cor. Third and
Mulberry, Business Centre, Willlainsport,
Pa.
Wm. CRAWFORD, Proprietor.
Dee. U.H74.
OEXTISTRY.
GEORGE M. RENN,
lt iSmiwon's Building, Market S'junre,
BrxiiCHY, Pa.,
1 prepared to do all kinds of work pertaining
to Dentistry. He keeps constantly on hand
n large assortment of Teeth, and other Dental
material, from which he will be able to select,
and meet ine wants of his customers.
All worK warranted to give satisfaction, or else
the money refunded. j
The very best Month Wash and Tooth-Powders ;
kept on hand.
His references arc the numerous patrons for
whom he has worked for the last twelve years.
Sunbnry, April 21, 1873. j
XEW COAL YARD.
THE undersigned having connected the Coal j
trade, is prepared to supply families with the
YERY BEST OF COAL,
CUE VI' FOR CASH.
Egg, Stove and Nut, constantly on hand. Grain
taken in exchange for Coal.
J. M. CADWALLADER.
Sunbury, Jan. 15, 1870. If.
SCXBIRY MARBLE YARD,
Fourth Street below Market,
SUNBURY, FEN N ' A.
rpiIE undersigned has returned from the r
JL inont Marble Quarries with 5 Tons of
Marblo for
Monnnients, Ureve-SfoneM,
$1 &C" &C'
:rj ' He has bought at such figures that
Kiy win allow mm to sen oetier stone, tor
less money, than heretofore. The best
Sutherland Falls Marble,
which Is better than Italian. Rutland is now
sold as low as the Manchester. j
Those who need anything in the Marble line, j
for Monuments, Grave-Stones, or other purposes, j
will fliid it to their interest to call and examine j
this large stock, as better bargains can be secur- j
ed thau baying from parties 'huckstering' round 1
the conntry. :
All lettering will be dona in the neatest and
moU Improved style. I
W. M. UAl Witl.KI 1 .
Sunbnry, Jan. 11, 1?7I5.
JOHN SEAnl.ET. T. W. PERKY
STEAM PLAIXIXG MILLS,
MILLF.RSBURO, PA.
NEAGLEY& TERRY,
Manufacturers and Dealers in
Flooring, Sidinjr, Surface Boards, Lath,
Strippiug, Shingles,
And all kinds of Sash, Doors, Shutters, Blind,
Mouldings, c.
Hemlock t White Pine Bill Stuff, and all kinds
of Building Material.
Stair building and church work a specialty,
March 13, ly-
COM.EY, IIACKETT a MATEEK, '
DEALERS IN
HARDWARE.!
CUTLERY, IRON,
GUNS, NAILS, ;
TOOLS, ROPE,
GLASS, PULLEYS,
PAINTS, PUTTY,
OILS, VARNISH,
SHOE TTJSTJDTJSTGS,
I.ElTnEll BELTING,
Fitltlng Tackle, Ammnnilion.
A full linn of goods at low prices.
NO TROUBLE TO SHOW GOODS
Please call and examine
MON OF THE ANVIL.
SH Market Street.
SI XBI KY PA.
June 5, ls"74.
KEEP IT n iXDY!
The Reliable Family Medicine.
DIARRHEA, Dysentery, Cholera, Summer
Complaint, Oamps, etc., quickly cured y
the use of
JARDELL.CS
Compound Syrup of Blackberry Root and Rhu
brl. An old, well tried remedy, entirely vege
table, pleasant to take, quick and certain in
effect ; can be depended on iu the most urgent
cases; maybe given to the yonngest infant as
well as to adults. It contains
NO CAMPHOR OR oriUM.
It is a pleasant extract and readily takeu by
children. It has often saved life when physi
cians had despaired. Keep It In the house and
use in time. All we ask for it is a trial. Don't
let your dealer put yo'i off with something else.
Buy it. Try it. Sold by Druggists and Store
Keepers throughout this State. Prepared only
by HANSELL & BRO..
jul9,-Sm 2000 Market Street, Philadelphia.
K9.000 IX GIFTS.
XO POSTPOXEMEXT.
A Grand Gift Concert.
A GRAND Oil T CONfT.liT
will lie rritivly git'on t Nuuhnry, t'a., by tte Iinl u
dent
WASHINGTON KTK4M FIHK COMPANY,
Ou THinSPAY, VIJUKVAIlY 23, l7r,.
t'ul' sx ill tirkete sre ull sold tfor that tinu, wLfu
due uotice will be Riven of lle time.
A full Drawing Certaiu.
f'iiilC to tbe l'cnie,nd In order to mi the gem-nil
wteli and -l,et-tiilinii of the tithc anil the tirkt-t-hcldi-r
fur the full icyiiienl of the (.tilts nunntiuct cl, the nun
apriueut hnve determined to )wtoue the C'ODcert ami
lrawiui( to the ilate alKivesUted.
The oiijeet of this enterprise is for the jmrprise of h
ruriug a Steam Fire hugine, whiih '.nil lie au advantage
to all ii'isrhlioruiK towns att-essililr by rail, iroui the fact
11 vM ' ou Iudnemi
.wtu
miti, tbr OI a .turner. I
if ui ivuuiiaiiy. Ann as e
:barpe our duty uheu railed u-
ahle to accomplish more Rood
1 here is no le thau nirtetf u
laflfp and email lonus lilau thirty lnilf-s of Sniiliurv.
all if which can I reached by railroad, thus affording
th facility of assisting iny of those placea ju less than
an nonr time; wuiie m ine same time our idwuvill not
t- iiii roteetMj. Otir jn-oli-et being a InuduhlM one, we
ff'-l eoutideut that all the tickets will b dipned oi by
the time above named for drawing.
THE FOI.I.OWIXO JS A LIST OF OIFTS:
OXF. GRAND GIFT OF
" " " M
" " tioo
" " " " fiOil
" ' " XOO
" Gilt of 2M
" " " l'V
HI Oiltn of f-'iOM l.lh-so
40 Gift of If".."" 1,1100
UK) Gifts of 10.00 1,!0
H) Gifte of 5.0U l.rtoo
najGiftaof '.'.no 1,000
1,000 Gifts of I.IK) 1,000
J.HVJ Total .!,000
This enterprise is no individual speculation, such as
ltoiimi, lots and furniture put up at fabulous price.
The bolder of a suceeaxful ticket will receive h GIFT iu
CASH.
ThKve will be 20,000 Tickets of Admission to this Coll
een, at $1.00 each, and at the time aliove stated the
fVOO in CASH Gifts will be distributed.
I'LAN OF MSTHIBL'TION.
Twenty thousand numlicrH, representing a nd corres
ponding with fliose on the rweipts ixaupd, will be placed
iu one wheel aud cards enclosed with the names of the
I'remiuma in sealed boxes will be placed in another.
From these wheels, a number aud one of the above nam
ed Inserilied cards will tie taken simultaneously. The
number so drawu from the one wheel secures the pre
mium deateuated by the card taken at the same time
from the other. This operation will be performed by a
blind person,, and continued until F.ighteen Hundred
and Fifty-H veu FremiiMJis are exhausted. It iserideut
that by thia process, fraud or favnrtixm will lie impossi
ble. Every person holding a ticket will be entitled to
admission into the Concert.
All Giite Paid in CAHH without discount.
Money can be sent for Tickets In registered letters, or
Post Ofnee Money Orders, or by F.iprecs at our risk. If
delred, Tickets will be aent by Express, C. O. T).
The following gentlemen have kindly consented to
act as Trustee for the aliove ttift Concert :
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LIFE AT TIIE PA R SOX A G E.
About the second day after my arrival at
the parsonage, last July, I said : 'Mother
who can tell mo the history of this queer
old house, with its big, rambling rooms
and air of German man comfort.'
'There yon so child, always wantiDg to
know the history of people, and things.
When I cleaned house last spring I found
an old portfolia iu the garret, full of pa
pers written in French and German ; they
may tell the story of some of the people
who have lived here. You know a par
sonage sees many occupants.'
I needed no further word, but ran up in
to the garret and gathered up the portfolia :
it was locked yet, but the end had been
torn oft", and it was packed full of papers. I
took it to the study room, and spreading
an old shawl on the floor, poured out my
treasures. There were several packages
of old letters, every one dating back before
the use of envelopes. Some were post
marked Berlin, Prussia, some Paris,
France, while Brussels and Cologne had
n l a few. There was a fair young face on
ivory, there was well, several little love
souvenirs such as wo all keep. Yon sir,
who having been trotting your grandsons
on your knees for the last half hour, will
remember that package of letters forty
years old, kept in your desk under lock aud
key, labelled 'Business.' Yes, business,
but not in stocks : they might be properly
labelled 'Bonds,' for they bound your heart
when life was young, and death itself can-no'-
unbind you. And you. madame, who
are a good wife aud true, have you ever
explained to your husband about that lock
of brown hair (your husband's was jet
black) that you look at tearfully once in,
oh, ever so long ?
Ah, yes, I say we all have them. The
most practical men of my acquaintance
kept a rose in a book for fifteen years ; its
beauty and perfume have long since de
parted, but to its owner it stands for all
that is good and beautiful in life. Bu6iuess
may dwarf and care sour ns, but sentiment
in the heart is perreunial.
'Dear me ! child' said my mother, 'I
would burn that trash of German aud
French papers ; what do you care for other
people's old letters.'
All papers, aud especially all manu
script papers, is dirt in my mother's eyes,
and I know her dread -f 'litter ;' so, after
being assured that I would clean up the
last fragment, she left me to my leading.
I soon fouud a little book evidently writ-!
i ten by a woman's hand, iu the neatest of
I German text, with here and there a French
j quotation. I read the book first, aud then
J the letterB ; they gave me a glimpse into
1 the lives of six persons. I know the editor
would simply throw this into the waste
basket, if I should attempt to translate all j
of them, but I will make such selections as
may give you some idea of the lives of these !
simple people. j
The journal commences : 'January 1,
1849. This is the first New Year we have j
spent away from the Fatherland. When
! Louis prayed this morning at worship, I
j feared he would break down. I know he
j thought of the old father and mother in
.' Germany.
Au ! this is a cold country, and cold
people live tn it ; shall I ever see the vine
clad hills of the Rhine again ?
'What am I, that I should murmur ?
! My sister-iu-law would answer that ques-
Hon by saying, you are nothing but a little,
near-sighted old maid. Am I an old maid?
No, I am not an old maid. Yet twenty
times a day I hear of my old maid ways,
my old maid voice and my old-maid style.
Yet in the sight of God I am not an old
maid. Fritz and I were betrothed thirty
years ago to-day. Jesu recorded it in his
book, and in his sight we were married.
'Mv father is a Colonel in the Prussian
army, and his proud spirit would not let his
daughter wed with a schoolmaster's son.
I'oor old man ! he feels disgraced that his
' son Bhould be a 'priest,' as ho calls a Luth
i erau minister, in anger. His two children
i fail hiru.hc says : Louis is a niiuister,and I,
i well, as I could not marry Fritz, I love my
UlOlIltl IJUAl, rtuu HiilviiT urn liil-u, ...
his life with a termagant a little more en
durable. So our names are never mention
ed in my father's presence. They need not
be. They are written on his heart.
May 1st. 1 have just had a long taik
with IJtiis about Maggie, his daughter. I
learned English at School, just as I learned
Franch, aud so when I visited Philadelphia
with my brother, I was able to see a great
difference between American aud German
girls. The former are better educated.
They study Latin, algebra and geometry,
and other things that only boys study with
us. My father thought a girl could not
understand such things. These girls are
not so skillful in drawing, painting and
needle work aud music as we were, but
then one cannot know everything. I want
my brother to educate our Maggie like the
people of this country. He does not think
it best to do so. He says leading, writing
j and casting up accounts, are enough for a
I girl to know, bc-side the accomplishments.
! 'It was enough iu our country, but I do
not like to think of Maggie knowing less
than other ladies of societ y. Of course my
brother must know lies!.'
May This is Maggie's birthday.
She is fifteen to-day. She is almost a beau
ty. Y hat a pet she would be iu her grand
father's quarters. How the young officers
would admire the Colonel's handsome
granddaughter. Alas 1 sho never was.and
she never will be admitted to her grandfa
ther's house. To hini she is simply the
priest's daughter. Maggie's eyes are blue
as the skies of Italy, and her hair golden,
like in the old pictures, a perfect Scanty to
her old aunt. I am teaching her drawing,
paiuting and music, while her mother is
teaching her to spin, weave and cook. Still,
I must own that Maggie is ignorant. At
her age I could talk theology and politics,
and had read Schiller and Goethe, but
Maggie would rather coast down the hill
with Willie Faust, our neighbor's son, than
reatl Yv'allensteiu. I hope it will be as the
j old professor used to say
If the girls are
ignorant, the boys never find it out.' These
Americans are so different froin us, I wish
my brother would send her to Philadel
phia to school to make her like American
ladies. There what am I saying i do 1
' not know that my brother must know best?
'June 1st. Our neighbors have conclud
ed to send Willie away to school. He has
been attending the academy at Somerset
for years : now he is going to go ttysburj.
My brother would prefer sending him to a
German college ; he does not altogether
like the theology of Gettysburg. His pa
rents are afraid to trust him across the
water. What a nice, manly boy he is.
Last night he had a loving walk with Mag
gie, and when she came in I saw by the
Divine light in her face that she had
plighted her troth. As she went up stairs
i I put ray arms about her and kissed her. In
deep joy, as m deep sorrow, no words are
needed.
'Willie went into my brother's study, and
I could hear them in earnest conversation.
As he stood at the door talking, the moon
shone full in his face ; while he made his
adie, I heard my brother say : 'The Lord
keep thee and bless thee, my son.' The
young head bent reverently.aa if to receive a
blessing. Perhaps he did.
'Willie is so polite to be a country lad.
These people annoy me by standing and
talking to my brother with their hats on.
and their coats off. To me he is always
the Coloncl'stson, and no private soldiers,
even after my brother left home, ever
thought of offering such an indignity to
him. Of course, I know it is not intended
as any lack of courtesy, and my brother
says I must not expect any distinction of
rank in a Republican government.
'June 6th. It was as I thought. My
brother told me that Willie asked for Mag
gie. How simple their betrothals are iu
this country. Then I should have known
it any way. Maggie carols about her work
from morning till night. Her mother
screams at her, or at the younger children,
but it stills her song for a moment only.and
then sho warbles on, in the fullness of her
joy-
'I have talked to her of how much read
ing and studying she must do, or Willie
will think her ignorant. She says Willie
thinks she knows enough 'for a girl. Yes,
for a girl, my beauty, but not for a wo
man. Maggie is fifteen and Willie almost
twenty.
'July 1st. Maggie has commenced to
weave a web of linen. I am helping her
piece a quilt. We know the marriage can
not take place for six years yet, but we do
not intend our darliug shall go from us
empty-banded.
'Maggie is learning to be such a good
cook. Indeed I think her currant jelly
clearer than her mother's, and I must say
for Katharine that she is a good cook. I
forgot to mention that my brother laid his
hand on Maggie's head, the morning after
his talk with Willie and said : 'I hope my
daughter will be worthy of the good man
who has chosen her for his wife.'
'Maggie kissed him, and I knew by his
gentle face that he thought Willie a fortu
nate boy to win the love of so good a girl
as Maggie.'
The journal was doubtless written in
hopes that Fritz would some day see it.
Here followed many entries that do uot in
any way refer to Maggie or Willie. Some
of them seem almost to talk to her absent
lover, but more of them are wails at her
sister-in-law, Ketherine's, cruelty.
Marie, the little old maid writer, does
not seem to care for her own wounds, but
every sharp word to her brother made her
quiver.
Marie seems to have been a governess
and general help in her brother's house
hold. In one place she says, that 'cruel as
her father has been, she is grateful to him
for the annual income which she still re
ceives, for were she obliged to receive
pecuniary support from her already over
taxed brother, her lot would be unendura
ble. The next entry of importance to the gen
eral reader is :
'July 1, Willie is home for the
vacation. He i3 a man now. His parents
are so proud of him, and no wonder ; ho
has the strength of a man and the gentle
ness of a woman.
'Maggie has not improved as he has, I
can see that. now. Then, I am sure, she
doe? not dress as well as the ladies he is
used to seeing.
I have given her my laces ; they are real
laces that I brought with me from Ger
many : when she has on Iter white dress
with lace ruffles at her wrists and throat
she is pretty, even if she is not fashionable.
When he went away four years ago he
never went with any other girl than Mag
gie ; now he pays a iittle attention to them
all ; indeed, I can scarcely see that he
treats Maggie any different from the
others.
lt seems to me Maggie droops a little
this summer. Even my brother asked her
this morning if she were quite well, and
remarked l.cr pallor.
'Willie has not written often the last few
months, aud now I fancy she thinks him
changed. Last night, as they sat on the
front porch. I heard him say : 'Maggie,
I wish you would watch your w's and v's
wheu you talk English. Please remember
that the h is sounded iu white, which, &c,
now be careful, my dear, for my sake,
won't you ?'
'The request was all right, but the voice
was petulant. Alas ! it is not true that
boys do not see the ignorance of the girls.
Young people feel, what we old ones know,
that youth and feminity are charms enough
for a woman's until she is eighteen, and
then it requires the height of culture to
keep even positive beauty from becoming
common-place.
'Sepli mber loth. Willie has gone hack
to the seminary ; he is going to be a min
ister. 'We have got through much of our work ;
Maggie has thirty linen sheets, a dozen
blankets and a dozen quilts. One of her
feather beds is done ; aud the other nearly
so. I think the girl has no heart to work
for herself. She seems to help her mother
very cheerfully, while she lets her own
work He untouched.
July 10, I8.vl. Willie has been home a
week : he did uot call here till yesterday.
Maggie saw him coming ; shu did not run
down the steps us she used to do, but stood
at the top of the stairs till I opened the
door. He did not ask for her, but for ray
brother Lois. I showed him iulo the study
room, and when I went up stairs, Maggie
had gone into h?r room again, and the
door was shut.
'My room is just over the study. I heard
them talking earnestly, and once I heard
my brother groan. Willie did not stay
long. My brother went with him to the
door, which had hardly closed after him
when I heard my brother call : 'Mario,
Marie.' I ran down to him ; his face was
very pale. We went into the study. He
said : 'Marie, he does not lore our Maggie,
and came to be released from the engage- j
mnt.' '
4 'Oh ! brother, does he call himself a
gentleman, much less a Christian ?'
'I guess, my sister, it is right. He
says, that for years they have been growing
apart, so that now he does not know what
to say in her society ; he is willing to keep
the engagement, if I desire him to do so.
but I would not force my daughter on any
man.'
'Just then the shrill tones of Katharine
were heard abusing the children, aud my
brother shook his head sadly, as he said ":
'It is best, I know it is best.'
'I remember that he had been placed in
the same relations to Katharine. When a
mere boy he had taken a fancy to the girl,
and as the years went by he saw his mis
take, and although he met a gentlewoman
whom he could have loved, he fled from
temptation and kept bis engagement with
ivatuanne. It did not occur to him to
make an appeal ; according to his code of
honor, a gentleman always keeps his
word.'
'His life had been one long endurance,
but that was with Katharine ; with our
gentle Maggie it would be different. 'Sis
ter, you must tell Maggie, and then look
ing up he moaned : 'O God, the human
kve that seems to bless other families only
blights ours.' I know he thought of his
own blighted life and of mine, and now this
shadow on his only daughter. Nothing
more was to be said ; I stepped back into
the other room ; on looking back I saw
Lois had bis head bowed on his hands ; I
felt like going back, hut what could I say ?
Il was one of the places where human
words fail. I went to Maggie's room, and
throwing my arms around her as tenderlj
as I could, (iu heart, I asked for divine
love for her), but said : "Maggie, he does
not love you.' 'She replied : 'I know it,
Marie. No words were spoken. If she
had cried out, or wailed, words would have
come, but for our tearless grief help must
come trom a higher source than I. Through
the steep places of life the sonl goes alone.
'August 10th. She staid in her own
room till evening, then came down as usual
and helped with the milking. Katharine
asked her if she had sprinkled the web ;
she said not, then look the watering pot
and did it. I knew by Katharine's kind
tone that brother had told her. It is right,
she i3 her mother. Maggie attended to
every duty, just as she always did ; but
from being a singing, merry girl, she has
become a quiet, thoughtful one. Never sad,
outwardly cheerful, we could but amagine
the deep waters through which she was
passing.
'Willie has gone back to the seminary,
and report says he is engaged to a beauti
ful girl in Gettysburg. I hope Maggie has
cot heard it.
'How infinitely more sad her experience
is thau mine. Through all her yeais and
sorrows, I have known that Fritz loves me.
In Germany we never taught to marry
without the approval of our parents. I
sometimes wonder now if we did right to
sacrifice our lives to there wishes after we
wen; of age. Then we are really scperated
from trim) we fve, although au ocean roll
between us. Although many years passed
since 1 saw him, yet I would rather spend
an hour thinking of him, than have the
presence of- any other person. When I
wns young, no day was sufficient to itself,
unless I saw him. Sometimes when I am
weak in faith, I think may be this is all the
life there is, and the hope of the future
seems only a beautiful myth ; the thought
comes over me that I am past fifty, and
away from my Fritz; then these yeais,
these terrible years, seem like sounds of a
rack, on which my life has been immolated.
My God, forgive rce ; remember' O thou
who made the'human heart, how much I
have suffered, and how patiently I have
waited for thy interposition !
'Is it not alone what life is, but for its
lost possibilities I mourn. In every gen
eration life's best good, home, protection,
and love of one's own children, is wanting
to many woman, why should I murmur
that they are den ied me ?
'They tell me t hat Fritz is one of the in
vant ot Germany. Surely, learning
makes up for rauk. What benefit has
my rank been to me ; a little old maid that
has been almost a menial in her brother's
household ?
'I wonder if my brother does uot think,
that if he had sent Vaggie to school, her
life might have been different ? if he does
not, no word of mine shall ever suggest it.
'July 10, 18.35. Willie i a clergyman
now. He married the Gettysburg lady,
and, they tell me, he is very happy. He has
had a call from a church near Pittsburg,
and has gone their to live. The cholera
has broken out in Pittsburg, and Maggie,
with two other women of the church, has
gone to help in the hospital.
'October 1st. Maggie came home a
month since. She is just now convalecent
from a spell of fever ; we have had such
nice, long talks now, that she is better.
She came home entirely worn out by her
duties, and what we thought at first mere
exhaustion, developed iuto a low fever.
She is setting in the parlor now very pale
and emaciated, but still our Maggie. I've
spoken quite Ireely of "Willie's marriage.
Ohe day I said to her, 'Maggie, this man
has spoiled earth for you ; are you not
afraid he cau spoil heaven ?' She replied
by quoting that beautiful verse from the i
Psalmist: Ich willsatt werden wenn icb.
erwache mach deimen bilde.
I shall be satisfied when I awake in thy
likeness.
'For my own part,' I said, 'when I have
cast my crown at my Saviour's feet, I shall
turn to find ray Fritz, if he crosses the riv
er before me. If he should be cast out of
the kingdom, it will be no heaven for me,
and if he should oot love me pre-eminently
there' the joys of heaven wonld pall for me.'
'Why, aunt Marie.' she said, 'yon forget
that they marry not in Heaveu t For me
I can truly say : Vor dir ist frende die
sulle und liebliches wersen zu deiner rech
ten ewiglich. Thou wilt show me the
faith of life, in thy presence is full of joy.
Surely, I Btand corrected before the child;
for human love, the Saviour has given her
divine love. Every life has its compensa
tion. 'October 15th. Fritz has come, Fritz
has come I Oh joy, joy, such as I only ex
pected when this lite is past, tills my heart.
'I heard a gentle tap at the door, and
when I opened it, a stranger stood there ;
I bade him come in, and was just starting
to call my brother, when he said : 'Marie,
do you not know me?' He is much
changed, but I knew the voice. 1 have often
tried to think of him as an old man' but
the picture would always come of brown
hair and blue eyes, whereas bis hair ta
white be is almost sixty now, and his
long white whiskers made, him look like
one's idea of sn artist or ft pock
'My sister-in-law smiles at the idea of
two old Dutch people marrying. My
brother says nothing. His face reflects
my happiness ; perhaps he thinks of Chat
eaubriand and Madame Recamier, but we
are not French, and I want to go bftck
with my Fritz to the Fatherland. I was
transplanted too late in life ; I left the roots
in the old country.
'Our father and mother are dead. They
have been dead, to me, many years. It ia
doubly sad to put one's foot on a human
grave to search an earthly happiness.'
Here the journal ends, and none of the
letters bore any later date. My mother
suggested that some of the neighbors couid
likely tell me what had become of all of
them. .
In the evening I called on an old lady
who was said to remember every thiug that
had been done in the congregation for many
years ; so having exhausted my observa
tion on the weather, and conversation com
ing to a deadhalt, I said : 'What became of
Mr. Franz that used to preach here for
you?'
'Why your Lutheran almanac would tell
you that be is located in Missouri. He
belongs to the Missouri Synod now.'
'I am sorry to say the almanac would
not tell me what became of his daughter;
can you tell me ?'
'Maggie, poor child, was a nurse in the
array, and was accidentally killed in tak
ing car of the wounded at the battle of
Gettysburg.'
'Having due respect for the almanac,'
I said, 'I would like to inquire where a let
ter would reach Marie Franz.'
'Well, now, that I can't tell you,' said
the old lady. She married a Gerjnan gen
tleman, and went back to the old country.'
Of the Rer. U Faust, it was not neces
sary to ask, for any of th church papers
will show you that he is one of the lights of
the church. II. E. MONROE.
tisctltanfrras.
The Telephone.
TLATING TUXES AT A DISTANCE OF A
MILE.
About the middle of last July the Tri
bune published the account of an invention
of Mr. Flzsha Gray, Superintendent of the
Western Electric Manufacturing Company,
called by him the telephone, with whose aid
he was enabled, as the article showed, to
transmit sounds from one end of the tele
phone wire to the other, or to any point or
points along the same. Yesterday morn
ing when the inventor gave an exhibition
of the new idea he had discovered in the
Geld of electric science.he did so with a con
fidence ho may not have possessed six
months ago.
The exhibition of the telephone took
place in General Stager's room in the
Union Building. As soon as the company
arrived and had been introduced to the in
ventor, he briefly explained to them the
nature of the exhibition, showing that the
sound-producing instrument was about a
mile distant, and calling attention to the
receiving instrument, by means of which he
proposed to bring the far-off music within
the hearing of all in the room. There
were two in number : one a sounding box
made in wood, perforated on one side.about
15 inches in length, and four inches in
heishth and breadth, with an electric mag
net placed upon its upper surface the ott
er an ordinary violin with a metallic plate
stretched across it on a bridge, in lieu of
the four striugs.
The first exhibition made was with the
sounding board. The wire leading into
the room from the electric works on Kinzie
street was connected with the electric-mag
net on the sounding box, and the General
telegraphed to the instrumentalist at tbo
works to begin playing. In a few seconds
the sounding box began to evoke sweetly
and very sonorously the tune of 'Yankee
Doodle,' followed in a minute by 'Robin
Arlair.' The effect upon the audience ail
of them were fully capable of appreciating
whatever of the beautiful, or wonderful, or
useful, or all combined, there is in art or
nature was instantaneous. They looked
from one to the other with that's-a-big
thing sort of expression which was quite
amusing, and when the last note of 'Robin
Adair' died away, they made quite a num
ber of pertinent inquiries of the inventor,
who explained to them that the sound was
produced at the other end of the line by an
instrument fitted with keys, which, under
action of the electric current, under
went a certain number of vibrations.which.
according to the number of each key
achieved, provided its note, the number of
the vibrations of the higher keys being, of
course, much greater than those of the low
er. The number of vibrations per second
achieved by the key in the telephone was
reproduced in the electric coil on the top
of the sounding-box, which, sympathetical
ly vibrating, sounded the note. The in
ventor then called attention to the fact that
with the introduction of living animal tis
sue into the ci ret lit the sound could be pro
duced without the agency of the electromagnet-
In proof of this ho placed him
Belf in the circuit, and. taking the violin
above described in his hands, he rubbed
the surface of its metallic plate with a bow
composed of a small piece of wood with
A TIECK OF TIG'S TAIL
dexteriou9ly inserted therein, aud evoked
as loud correct music as had been provided
by the sounding-box. Having shown the
gentlemen present how to do it. they all in
turn took the violin iu hand, and although
none of them had played a note in their
lives before, with the aid of a piece of pig's
tail they produced just as good music as
Mr. Gray, every did. The inventor .then,
to show that the principle applied to every
thing that was sonorous in its nature, sent
for a dust-pan, from which he, placing
himself in circuit brought forth the music,
less clearly ,of course, then from that violin
or sounding box, but still quite audible to
all in the room. He then took an ordinary
letter-box, and placing a sheet of tissue
paper across it, instructed a gentleman
present to put himself in circuit and hold
the papered side of the box to his ears.
The gentleman did so and announced the
time at once. Several other gentlemen
played upon the dust pan, and held the
letter-box to their cars with equally satis
factory results, and what was more re
markable was that while the song was
pealing fotth from the violin the sounding
box was playing the same tunc not a wit
less loudly thau before. Such are the dif
ferent exhibitions made by the inventor of
this newly discovered feature in electric
science, and, before leaving, the gentlemen
present all expressed their admiration and
wonder at the results produced, and a con
viction that, practically applied, the in
vention would become ot great commercial
importance.
Mr. Gray The practical feature of the
inveution lies in the fact that, with my in
strument, I can transmit all the common
chords of a seven-octave piano along a sin
gle wire at the same time, and in the
further fact that these harmonic sounds
can be analyzed at the receiving end ou in
struments, each of which selects its own
peculiar note, and rejects ail others. Thus
one wire can easily be employed by at least
tweuty-two different senaing and twenty
two different receiving operators.
In the interesting conversation which the
reporter had after this exhibition with the
iuventor, the latter explained that there
was no doubt that what was so clearly ac
complished with two notes could certainly
be done with twenty-two. The telegraph
ing would be done with the ordinary Morse
alphabet, the great point now to be disco
vered heiug whether the telegraphing could
be done backwards and forwards at the
same time. This is the point to which Mr.
Gray will devote his future energies. In
the meantime he is preparing a transmit
ting instrument, with the aid of which he
will shortly show to the world that eight
messages can be sent along a single wire
and received simultaneously, and there is
no doubt when this Is done satisfactorily he
will not be long in enlarging his instrument,
and adding the other fourteen to fill the
twenty-two simultaneous messages of
whieh he is arvnflde,nt. Cft'co JVo'ie.
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