Terms of publication. Ths Somerset Herald pul.UshoJ every We'.ucsday Moral: ntiOO St annum, if paid in advance; otherwise V W will Invariably I charfred. No subscripUon will be discontinued until l- -rc.r.ge. r paid up. Pu:mMt M-'1" notify us when subscribers do not take out their paper, will be held liable for the subscript!"- Subscriber, removing from on. Fosto Ibee iM an other should give u. tb. nam. oftb.f-n-meras well as the present office Adilret Somerset Printing Company, JOHN I- StALL, Business Manager. Card. eJ to K A l n'UNEY AT LAW, 1 K.nirrHL CUB. I ,rALKNTlNK HAY . A"OBNKjr AT and dealer in real estate luc re wiln attend f.. .U Vr.X"' -li-,J-promptness and nudity. entrusted to Imu. M- " ' ke. t i.nce in MammoU. lui..imK. jan. 1, TO- V l,AW, Somerset, la- v u. li-ly-block. , s.ioersel, il ,".',.tan,ll,..inii-item:n-l rusted so his care in ' J " , ,a,.-c i.. Maui-t,.-s with promptness a:d U lUi.- ls TJ iy moth block. . lLand itounty eol'cs'''n AU in. u tl. PaT omce in Mammolb Block. J-"- " r4ri.B.AITHEB. e,Lio.OAiTHEB. Attorneys at Law, s AlTHF.K k IT1Au ,'ro esM. n il business j S,.mer.eu Fern, a. lu..rf ijvk, up promptly alien-lid to. o.n-e .u stoles. uec-; SSUSJSWS A. . .a.rK.IOTR- ; t VS AT f-v. rt mTH k r.i n f.l. . vi i c.wlli I , i iw All business enirusuo " 1 .Vs.-t-edily and punctually.. f - tll(f iirru K-n 'iu r""s ''r ' 1 Hani. Mamiuulil liloi k. - - I )'M,li, .ne, and Zl lrr 'L il tbe'ilde Hou. net Houce. irari mi.'. A. . " 1 . l.K.r,til,as arr.ii.te I. thetK.-.nniatrial,tiifL'rted. I'.raai j tl.,t.uine e.itruMe. to I. ,.rl.uillil ,! the R.I)iniiiK counties. t 'u li .u li'iw. . J AMKS L. ri'GH, ATTOiiN tY AT LAW, Somerset. Pa. X,nu !Swi-;m Jill j - o. (X1LU Mir?. !'.-. i Lni-i. 'J ATTOKXEY AT LAW, aiarl."73. ; i t'tni!e.l uU ll lel.iy- JJ A. SNYPKK. ATTOUNKY AT TAW, hoMi:i:in r.v. Offlee next door South cf SicU KK.n..H n.iuk up Hairs. ' " Dl; A a "M 1 I-l-aru'r twelve vevrT "lve pructi.-e In Sl.ntikvfll. haf ,,. i m"nr.tlY I"" "ed at Somerm-t tor t lie ..nir eD" lDe.-.,d tender., his .n.l.; -raj , ser i "ll cl.l7.eu, ot Somerset and vi, ,,, l - unless n-fnjinally eimatfed. sTMht calls prompt.)" aurwere 1. dec. 18, ri-l.v. -PROFESSIONAL. lr OeoTrt Tt. Fnnder.l en. f CumlKrUnd. M I irifis hi" rlends that lie lias this day n"-o- Kr-ra'til.- York .ye "llS-Hl Pall to .hodl.-ao, the Lve and lr. ' ' TAW iiCtiTU'E. Aleiander 11- 'oi:r"th has resn.i the practice ... law in S.,i,,ts.;. and djoinluit counties. tIU- in Manitnoth J.u.l.u. leb. i, H I K. M1LLKR has jnr-incTttly lasted In Berlin l-rthe 1 raeii-e ..f his pr. i;,:.. OtUee opp.lte Charlie K.risli.irer s --fc. apr.'ii ''u-tf. g S. OOI, rhrsiciAX & sunai:oy. sohi:rsi-:t, pa. -Ofs-k e in Mammoth Work. f'" DEITTIST. OOiee in C.rndh 1. NeS"? new hnildii.','. Main Cross Street. S .merset. Pa. novll HTII'IC AL TKKTII !! I. i YITTZY. D E L T I S T DALE CITY, .Htmerict Co., r.i.. Artificial Teeth, war ante-! to he of the very t.es; fjiialitv, Ij.--like ai d Handsome, lns. rte.1 In the Lest si'le. Pani. ulai l tent I"ti paid to the pres ervation cf the iiaturl teeth. Those wii-Iiinic to consult me hy letler, em do so hy ctifio.-lnif stamp Address as' abuve. lel.-Ti '1 mii- so.MKitsKT nori:. Havltm lease.l thif nvifftnfKent at. I we.l l.n. !. Hotel proH-rtv trotn Mrs. K. A. Ki. 'k. theun o r signed takes iileanre in Inlormlna hi ln -ni s am! tin. public iienwatiy that he w.,1 s;wre neither pains nor ei ne I make tin' I; ii all ti.it could ie desired. Aai-otnm !atii.u e!.'rk nn.i ol.liulnjr waiters will attend to the wants l eus ti.iu.-rs. and the table will at all linos b.-la ot. with the t-st the market all T l. Mr. i. 11. ljy wan mar at a!! times be I- "'el In :!i. e nm.arjj' H. L.V.N. D 1AMONP 1IOT1.L. I snn'STowx im. sami:ki. :i s ti.k, l'l.iprieiot This pcnUr and w- ll kie wn h use U at all times a ierlr.le stoppi.. plaee l..r the iravelliiK 1 jb.l. T:le an.! li..ins nr-;-ei."-. ...kmi , jb,. T VidilC. Ilvkl ieu.e 0!y .1 sla- bit.lf. wa Hij.l k.rtu.-rc' tiii.ril. L A T V. HOOFS. "Those who are n..w buioMni I.-.U. sh..ti! I kn .w tha' is it eheK-r in the l. ai-.- run lo .u; on Sine li.sds than tin or shingles. SI it.- will last ton v. r. and no repairs are r.Hiuired. Siate yivi p the ur est wt. r t..r etsterns. Slate Is tire p(. P.v. ry irsl h us. choiil'l have a Slate r-'I. "I I. e uu b-r-siirnci Is loe..t-j in fuuiNrlan I, w!,. re lie has a (Uj.ply ot peaclibottorj & Buckingham SLA- T E lor rnofiins the very !h-s! sirtt . le. lie will under take to put Slate Ibiots on Houses, public and pri vate, spires. 4lc. either In town .r country at the lowest price, and t warrant them, fall and him r a'l.ir. s mm at nis . en-a-. .t. jiu iiaiiim.e Street, Cumberland, Md. Orders may Ix-lcll with N o A II t'ISKB F. P. l; , AitetiU Somerset. Pa. Vm. 11. SHiri.tv. Apri 114th, H"S. II OMKS I 'OIL ALL. err S"'-r. In.lusiri us in lnidual. nous.-. lots, farm. iiiiiNt Ian Is. mineral au is. hub ili.ir bis. fce , Indillerent par's ' to -.unty. in pr-.vle t In.m one-tourth oi an acre np to 1.isj acres. 1 i tles warranted. Terms one liltb In hand and Ih b.laoceiuten cjual annual pnyiacms. properly secured. None nee.1 apply who la not ol e-.t-T and Industrious hat-it. Call -n. a sonic o! the ir.ier tics, will be f. rent II not sol.i s..r. lt24 l- WtYAD. mi VOL. XXIV. NO. 12. Bank. JOHNSTOVv'N SAW BARK 120 CLINTON STREET. CHARTERED 1 1ST 18 VO. JAMES COOrEH P. J- MOURELL, DAVID DI CEKT, JAM E3 McMILLEN C. r. EI.U-, A. J. nAV.'ES, r. w. hay. JOHN LOWMAX, T. II. LAI-SLY, JAMES MORLEY, LEWIS TLITT, II. A. BtXiiGS, COXItADSUPrES, GTJ T. SWANK, D. McLAl'niILIX. W. W. WALTERS DANIEL J. WORRELL, President, rRA.IK DI3ERT, Treasurer, CYRVJ3 ELDEH. Soiicitor. Po; of .r. DOLUS ad oiwar.Ure. ceivc'l.an.l in-.cr. st allowed on all sutna, payable twice a year. li)'."rept if not drawn out, is added to the principal .hus COMI'OPXIUXli TWICE A YLAK, sidhot tr ubl nit the deis.sitor tocall or even to present his.leis.sit l.k. Money can be withdrawn at any time atteriflving the bank cer taia n .ilcc by letter. Married Women and prraona under a'c can deposit ni -tic) in thclrown names, aothat it ran be drawn only by themselves or on thelror dcr. Moneys can 1 deposited for children, or by F.'le:lcs. orai trust funds. Subject tocerlaia con ditions. I.ojiitsSet nrcd by ISe.il rotate. Copies ..f the Py-Tjaws, reports, rules of deposit, and sp.-cliil act of" Legislature, relative to deposits of married Women find minors, can be obtained at the 1! ink. Ilanki'ic honrs dallv fromO to So'cloek; and on We .inc-dav and Saturday evenings irotii 0 lo 7), o'clock. !' Cambria County BANK, M AV. IClIM t CO., M). 268 siTBLET. JOHNSTOWN.PA., Henry Schnahle's Crick Puilding. A Ouoral ISaMLinr; HiiMiiess Transacted. Pralts and lold and silver houirht and sold. Collections made in all parts of the Cnited States and Canada, interest allowed at therateolsil i-rceiit. pcruDuum, 1 lett sii months or lonner. Speoial nrrniiiremenia mads with Uuardlans and .tii.r win. hold moneys in trust. at.nl 10 73. Ursina Lime Kilns. The ur.'':crf!;-ned are prepared to furnish Prims Building Lime By the Car Load, Orders Respectfully Solicited. II. J. iiatzi:k A CO. I'r-ina. Juue Is. J3HH DiBERT. JOHN D. ROBERTS. JOHN DIBERT & CO., BANKERS, CORNER UVJ AND FRANKLIN STREETS, JOHNSTOWN, PA. Acooimlsi oT Mrr'lianiM and oilier iniiif.si H'opl solicil cl. IsraflH urgotiablp in all l:irls of the uiilry for xale. loiit'j l.oaiisI iiik! Collect ioiiM Iad'. Iiiierrr.1 at the rate of Si IVr cent. it a a mini al loueilon 'l ime IJeposil-. Navinff lsepos.it Itooksi eil. and Interest Compounded Seiiii'Miiiinally Mlien desired. A u-ntr.il lidiikini Business Transacted. iyh. it.. Furnitiirs! Furniture! F. G. WEISE, (Sit -eissor to LEMON A WEISE, 111 Fill KTH AVEM E, PITTS liVIi'JH. PA. Manufacturer and dealer in CABINET FURNITURE, CHAIRS, &c. T?.c trade si'.;. plied at lowest rateg. CI,L AMI SEE HIM. MOKE Til AX HALF A CENT! I(Y airo. Iir. II. I). Si.LLEh'S. aeelebrateal physi cian of Putsburich, .lise..vero. and used in Ins practice the lopularrenie.ly known througtb- l . v cou.it i j a. Sellers' Imperial Cough Syrup. This is no quack remedy. It was tsirn of wl !o!n: and thousands arc living witnesses of its won icr;n; curative j-owers. 111. pieant tatake an ! sure to cure Cuuichs. Colds. Croups. Iinehia Alh-ciioiis, Ti. ki.na of the 'I int. and all ills ea s ol n kindred nature. K. K Sellers fc Co. PitL.l.utii, Pa., are also piprletors of Johuson's .' ;; 'MA 11 (J COMPO VXD, The ;;rt:i.t In tr rniil romty for rheumtlini, TVou ruli t. llt4Ui In-, vie. Vu n hvr a Ii.-tr ! wan In Uw Ii-um! 1-y kccjunif; hvllcra' FluilT m uiruit? on liaiui. 1 h ir lAVKIt lJir.LS ara- the oldest and tst in the market, and every lub'ot Hi rir Vcrinituire is warrame.1. For sale by ali uruavists an t country dealers, a-r7 CEMi t..(). p. EilWF.LA "., Xew York .a ortsk (tCili edition) titaminB; lists otiooo ii.-wsjuip.Ts, au 1 o.iui.uc. showinu est of adver tising. Janla MaXVFACTI'KEKSOF Youghiogheny Cement. And dealers In Portland, liosendate and Iis A ill.- C.uiel.t. While Liuie. White Sand. Calcin ed Piaster. l.nd Plaster. Siewer PIm-s. Chimney Tops. Fire liri.-k. Urate Tiles. Agents forUrerns l.ro Stone ware. J. Lirty Street, riTTUVPOH. TA. 4 I.LTTtl!lE"VY CITY STAIF BVILMXa fc ! V tntli 11 liMNO SlltiP. vTIl PZCPLZS, ?FkC?2IETC2. I iki ai;i.isiii:d ih--o. Km. 12, 144 1 146 Wetiter St., Alleghery City Pi I Newels llalusters. Hand Halls, with joints cut i and iHilted rea.ly to hauj(, furnished on short no- j Hoe. I lnc,nireof CO. BASSETT, aaent (or Somerset andwcmiiy. JulyU Miscellaneous. ri'LHTONS' AMERICAN CYCLOP-EDL NEW HE VISED EDITION. tntlrely rewritten by the ablest writer on every mi.ieci. i ruiieu truui new type. nu lllustnUHl mm several luuusanu cuTaviIigs and map. The work originally puldudieJ under the title of Thk.Nkw AJibUKAM CV.LriA wasoTnplet el in aiuce wuieh lime Uie wide lreuuilon which 11 ha. allaiuca iuall parts ol the Lulled &u.i a, a no me sinnal ueveWpmeuu wnicJi have ukai i.iote lu evcij oraucli ol acicucu, liucnaure, anu.r. nave laou. ed the e.ittors ano put.lishcri w mmuu 10 an eaaov and tuorough reyuiou. and luiswiea ucw e.ii.ioii,fUiulaiu,AitiUtAi; tl.ora.nu ......... , k. l.i ten veara Uie nrottren vl ait- cov.ry i uiauu a i ever, ucnariiutiii. ol auow ieu)(a uu. new work oi reference an imperative " iu- movement of jv,ll;leal affairs.has kept pace won un unvcrie oi seieuce, uu tlieir iruulul ai.pu.aUui lo too iUA.ua.ria4 aua useiul art, and ooo.ooi. alio leuueuieui ol eueial Hie. uruistii u-i conscjucuk revoluiioua Have .oc curred, ln.oKu.x naiioual cimiijseaot ocuUarmo uicuu tbe.i.u war ol our owu oouutry, which Wa. l ll fceiKUl uca the Last Volume ol the old wora apiK-au-u, has Happily been ended, and a new ouure oi couiiucrciaa and muusinal.activilj Has iH-cu cuillielieeu. ur... u, our ueoaraiihical a n leal re have occu maac l-y the luueiaiigat-le eaploreraof Atrlea. ... . r.i i.ilitleal revolutions of the laat decade. wun int u.uurai nsuit ol uie laj.se ol time, have broUKiil into view a uiululuae 01 new men, whose uaiucs are lu ever)" one Binoulh, ami ol wuoae iles evcrj one is curious to know Uie particulars. Ureat oames liavo ueeu louuhl anu imjiortaul Sl(?c ik-rm. ..mi ni Uie newsiianers or in the irnusient iiu.iii1j.iii.m1- ..1 auicll Uie .lelail dlTV 3 yei 0 oui.Uca ! os ol uie aay. i uc which uuxhinowU uc lueir j.iaca lu pcimaucui and aumeutic nia- hasaecroiuK.. uccu tncaim ol theesliiors to bring it. i.reiurinu tha iireaent ec uion lur.iio yiw, main nw lliioiuialKKi lo llio laiesi ijsioio u, auu to lurui.u u accuiaUi accouui ut ilie moK re-ecui.u.-.uvcrn lu scieiiw-. ol every Ircsh produc tion ui u.craiure, auu ol ihe ueweat Inveutious in I lie orj.-.l.-.! ur. as Well US lo ItlVC S HUCCIIlCt ami oriKiuai rcvuM ut me j-ruitnas ol isjliucal and his torical cvcuts. , iue work uas been Oeijuii alter ioii anu c-n!iui ori-iiiiilnari uuor. auu witu lue aiurt ample re- auuruva n-r crri 1011 ll uuwiiiw.w"."'"'""- None oi me ui uiui a.crvo.y i lualea have been usu.i. out ecu ....au oas uii i rui.eu oa new iyie, lormiuK lu ui a Hew . eKi,-..lu, wuuiue .rtlUC ,.lU .u. co.ijs a. j-iwiwowi, wun 1.H- nr.an-i 1c.uiu.iry ti,o..uiv, ami ru.i. iui.'i c:u. - u 1.. ,i iuvaui as have iin).c..u i iJiiiii cj.rivi.cauuciuarBeu llic uiuM.ua.lou wiiicli are uiiruuuceuloT me ilts. inuc 1U me Ufii.. c al.l 'U uaVc Ikvsi aUUVU uul mr iutN.ktw olcu rull lllecl, out w clulti uuu ...ice l. li.c cJli'iaaiauoiiS 1U uictcfcl. Inc. cia.'lacc al. olulijl. . scicuce au.l ol uaiu- rul UiSiu! . . Ull'l .ivt ICb 1110 luuofc tauiuus auu re- uiaiaao.c tcuuiva oi eccu.il, -lculleciuro auu .lH as acil aM..i; afl 'U plocc.-ScS ol mcciiauica allU 1U4UUIM4UICIB. .AIIMVUItU llllcUuCU lOI 1U .UUC.ioU 1.1-ii.l UimU Cu.us.llMUICli, 110 JN1111S Hale Kau soaio lo luu.c lucir ai'.iellc cacel- lilKC, ll.C COS. ! U.cll CAClU.luU U CUOIUIOUB. 41U 1. is wcuc.u lucv sutliuu a wcicoluc rcaXplioUtol au auui.lao.c iciutv 01 .lie vycl.'pa:ola, auu Wor .... ol lis it.au ..u..l'..cu.T. am. oi i. jia .o euo.TUHUol.lJ, payaliw ..ou.-.ilLl, u. CU. .OlUUl. Xl Will .'V COUllllClUU in luaaaibiiio 'Uivw VoiUUlea, eacu coululug aooU. MW I'-..-. lUlO U.U.lail, Wl.U uiouiaa . ooj umulaua. au.l wliu numerous co.oici i-i.noirj-niw iai-s. il.lOx. AAUMlLhUl' lUMslNU. lu ex.ra cloin, jkt vol m x.iotaia uv-titaf, j.cr vi ill Hall llll.L) .I.OI1UCCO, JKT.VOl Ill i&.ili x.Ufla, L.ra KUl, -T ul m tun jitiitutioi. .uil.uu, mil cuitcs, per ol -e . e . b in .un K-r oi lo cac.cu tuiuait-. no rca.ij. aucsaalUK VoiUluea Uuili couit.ictio.1. w ut Oc iaia oucc lu iwo uiuuiua. ".s-ota-iuicu pate, oi uio Amerit.aU C) cioyai- ul.t, rul. lii ti-c, ltia.iauoiia, cuv., Will fc-e Kut raila tm ai'uili.111011. il-at. cum cau. .ist-ui is.'Ull wauled. li.i. ilcrS " J. 11. il.lil.l.liSUN, Ageui, .o...o;; Minis.., I'ui.ourjjii, ra. UC' it W f. D D F I. I, A HOLM EH, (riier.il ( omniissiuu Merchants, Warehouse, No. 34? Liberty Street, PITTS ni itiJH, PA. Carreip'ndcneo SoHciti-.!. May la. CARPETS. m:wi:st stylus. BODY BRUSSELS LATEST DE.-IGXS. TAPESTRY BRUSSELS, NOVELTIES IX Two and Three Plies, iisrGJ-n.rViisrs, sec ALL OF WHICH AVE OFFER AT LOWEST CASH PIIICES. BOVARD. ROSE & CO., New X. w Fiflh Avenue, PITTSnVEQH, PA. mt.?u 6. L IfflEII & Vliolcs:ilo Dealer in Watches, Jewelry. Clock. Silver and Plated Ware, Watch Makers .Materials, T.kiIs. ke, American Move ments, and Cases, and Fine Swissi Watches a Speeialtr. Fn-sli rls. Keliahle (Qualities, and Chcaj.. Wholesale exclusively. 0-i Filth Aveno'e. fice..r. l fi.r) ma; 5 P1I ISi tllUH, PA. KINCSFORD'S OSWEGO Pure AND Silver Gloss Starch Hv tha Luuiiiii-y. MANUFACrVREP Bt IKINGSFOuD & SON, The bett Starch in the Wtrld. Gives a beautiful finish to the linen, and the dln.-r.-nce in cost tM-iw.-rn It and cimmon starch is scare), hall a cent for aa ordinary washing. Ask your tirucer lor It. . . liIGKFOItI'S OSWEGO CORNSTARCH, rs rrnpi vci. m i'-ec xasgc, tcc CRtLa, he. I. the original Established in 1S48. And pre serves ii- rcputaitun as pnrt-r. stnwsrer. and more .telteate than any other article of tb kink olkred, either of the same name or witk other titles. Strveason Maatilam, I h. D.. Ac., the hirbest ehi mhail authority o Eun.ie. carefully analysed this Corn Starch, and says ilia a most exoeUcal article ul rtirland In chemical ami leeding prup eriles Is fullT e.ual to the liest arrow root. lireii.uiior makinu Pnovliruja, Custards, fee, aee..inHinveaWi Mino paekaifc. For sale by all urst class UroetrS. maySt - K ! - - tS g ; ' til .'j I'l '. a tg rr f,,.3 M w wai1 i W g.9 ' -X. . ' J 11- - M 1 X 'i -V V-:i S C- J O j ' COMMISSION1. u f W- hr-'H T m it iq m SrJ" to n . n UELAl0-t-i2 Br wrDOELL t HOLMES. jp. S M EB'SI Sri i-a sMfc.. I Rrl n SOMERSET, be tuoi' mrt Care not what others say. Be thou true) If they gossip to betray, lie thou true! Be consistent and do right, For the truth make a good fight; Do. what thorn dost with all thy might; Be thou true! be thou true! "Let thy lo be sinoe re Be thorn true! Only Ood hast thou to fear; . Be thou true! Since our joys must pass away Like the dewdrops or the spray, Wherefore should our sorrows stay? .Be thou true! be thou true! Friendship's very hard to find, Bs thou true! True lore is not always blind, Be thou true! Time at last makes all things straight. ' Let us not resent just wait But trust not too much in late. Be thou true! be thou lrue! Like the summer's fragrant flowers. Be thou true! ' Like the April's eoming showers, Be thou true! Like the mountain looking high, And the river roiling by Like the blue and arching sky. Be thou true! te thou true! WalUre. TIIOKSE' a.AtT WORK OX THE TIMES. A3 TOLD BY TflE NIGHT F.MTOrt. Do I remember Thorne ? Then I never told you of bis last night on the Times. While I wait for Dunne to write up the fire in square for tbe second edition, you shall bear it. Then you can guess whether I am likely to forget old Thorne. I was a beginner on Ixe limes then, and being blessed with a sound constitution, and nimble on root, very properly was put on duty as nigbt police reporter. Journalism, you know, ia those days, though it's not long ago, either, wasn't what it is now. There was but one night police reporter on the Times then, and be was expected, in all sorts ot weatner, to take in the fires, fights, burglaries, and murders, witb little regard to the leg work required, and less regard to the English in which his reports were written up All conv for the night bad been handed in. The tele graph editor had received "30" on bis dispatches. The city editor and reporters were gone. The scissoring, ink-sliDgiDg, and pencil-scraping to fill the columns of another dav's issue bad ended, and tbe rjsb and worry were over. Only tbe nigbt editor, aw usual, was burrving to get to press, and the foreman was swearing with tbe original vigor appropriate to tbe last half hour 8 work on a morn ing paper. Thorne bad finished bis work two hours before, and there was nothing for bim to do. It was between 2 and 3 in tbe morning, but bo was at bis desk as usual, wbicb, as usual, was covered with stray exchanges and scraps of unfinished manuscript, sucb as be seemed forever beginning, re vising, and tossing into tbe waste basket. He was re-writing one at the time. "Let me tell you, Thorne," said I "that I've struck a first-class sensa tion to-nigbt regular bloody horror closing scene in a tragedy of sin and shame, and all that sort of stuff, yon know, for the heid lines, witb beavy moralizing and ghastly de scriptives flung in at random. Noth ing known of it, either, till near 2 o'clock this morning, when there wasn't time to look it up. But I scooped the News and the Dispatch men on it They had gone for their coffee, and the Times will have it ex clusively. It's a horrible affair. Beau tiful woman in street, found in ber chamber witb a dirk slicking in ber heart All's shrouded in myste ry no cloe to the assassin. Was told at tbe station that she was a wealthy widow, a divorce, a run away countess with a romantic histo ry, and tbe mistress of a down town millionaire, wno is also a pillar in Dr. 's church. I sluDg it all to gether with lurid adjectives, and mys terious references to facts suppressed by tbe police, and, I've made the sen sation of tbe morning out of it. iou are to work it up for to-morrow, Thorne. It will try you in the line of terrible descriptives and on tbe text something about her ways lead ing down t bell." He made no response, which, after the style of the reporter in his novi tiate, I rattled on in what I took to be the professional tone about the street tragedy you may re member it, though it's an old affair now. He asked a few questions, noted dowD what points I could give and, evidently, was about to dismiss the subject, wbeo, feeling talkative, I added I was glad the matter was off my bands. I bated the vile hor ror in which a lost woman was mixed up. Tbe lost woman of tbe sensa tions was simply a nasty Eentimen- talism. "In your ages of reportorial expe rience" (be bad br.cn grubbing away as fag of tbe city force fur at least a dozen years) "have you," I exclaim ed, "ever seen or beard of one of these 'lost who bad not found her element when she became lost?" He puffed his pipe slowly, and made no answer. Witb that idle persistence with which at times we press a question, in tbe answer to wbicb we feel not the slightest interest, I repeated tbe query. "1 don t know," be said, dryly. 'I've known hardly a dozen women n all ray lile. JiOtooeot tuem was lost," and be stopped to Gli bis P'Pe- A rcngb JNo vera ber gale was dash ing sleet against tbe windows; it was a long walk to my lodgings, and tbe glowing coal fire in tbe big rrankan stove was cheery. Beside be seemed to be in a communicative mood be seldom talked and in idle curiosity I waited to bear what be would say. "I can tell you something that may change your notions as to that," be said. "It was an episode in the life of a ?Vmes mD t0 Defor Jour day. lie was one of those unfortu nates woo happened at tne outset to bave been rated as a fellow of brill- ant promise, while, in fact, be wasn't quite clever. His education bad been of tbe sort to be picked up, when I was a boy in tbe log school bouse. He completed it at 'keeping school' in a log school house, I believe. At 3 eWii.-J FSCX ESTABLISHED,,18i37. PA., WEDNESDAY, any rate, bo cartfe Lero: at the ago of 27, wrih Lis scat pavings and un couth bank woodrf wars, to studj law, and attempted lor eke out: his scant means by writing for tbe press.. He was full of self-eoDfidence of the au dacious sort, ibat. only, uneducated young men or narrow experience, can be Cited with and, or course-, lie couldn't write. ' lut with wondrous blind persistence-be kept at' it until about one in ten of bis articles, after being offered at aU thaoiTieeain town, was accepted. I Ben : be; wrote witb redoubled industry-always slowly aud laboriously. ' And be grew pooN er, more - ambitioof. and proud, and in tbe end wouU bave probably fetched up in a mad bouse but that one of bis articlepf6appened to strike the lancy of old Al' . ,-cbief on the Time then, who ouered him a miagr position oa tbe editorial.' - - "So ' be was incorporated in tie machinery of a great newspaper and set to work, with the .rest, to grind out his share of the daily grist. He knew little of politics ; not much of books; less of men and affairs; and in his dull backwoods life, had de veloped nothing approaching to a sense of news couldn't distinguish between topics of no consequence and topics cf all consequence for tho day. IJut he was aglow with lofty purpose, and cherished tbe highest conception of his mission as a. journalist. I think he bad read aad actually be lieved Carlyle, isn't it, ou the 'High priesthood of the Press,' whose office it is, as you and I know, to dish up the seusations, criminal caleudar, and gossip of the day; to,' toot for this eminent statesman aud a'tack that eminent statesman; to furuiah opin ions to suit the market demand, with a managing editor set over you to see that you do it; an editor-in-chief over bim for the same purpose ; and the stockholders to watch the chief in short, to make dividends oa the investment, lie was just such a fel low as this infernal, incessaut griud soonest reduces the sapless condiliou to which in time it fetches us all who do ttc buck work on tbe dailies. Old M soon found that bis newly dis covered geuius bad to master the rudiments of journalism, and, after a week's time, took him off the edito rial staff aud put him at reporiiug. Ouce in the mill bis only chance was I to workout. At it he bet, himself as earnestly as though that were - possi ble. 1'erbaps had he beeu ten years younger it mighi bave been." "lu his reporto'ial experiences he ebauced to meet a woman, such as you would cull lost. 110W it hap pened well, no matter bow it hap pened. He was a pure-minded fel low, and remained pure, throughout. She w as a superb beuutj tali, and of lithe, symmetrical figure j. shy aud graceful as a fawn, and with a deli cate, infantile face, expressive only of unrestrained girlish "Joj'o'usuess, aud exquisite sense of all that was beautiful. She seemed burn for suu shine and flowers, and music aud teuderest love, aud all happiness that could Cuat no pang. Yi liai bale ful miai-hupee had brought her to ueb a .o h no crknew. Itcou.dnoi Lav beeu luiu ot hers, llt-r hMiS.-neae aud sweet girlish caprices aud lau like music of sparkling rill, aud her manifest utter .unconsciousness ol what dire fate had befall en her, must then ha.o been impossible. It mu'51 have ba niejed through wreck of some home tnat she fell into the toil of a devil a handsome, dashing, polished devil in the very Bemblaiice oi tbe hero of a young girl s romance aud whose lying promises to a child eucn as she we.'c sacred as holy writ. "0d it all had been compassed in a very little while. It could not have been otherwise, for all aboil", her wa suggestive of a teuder birdling, tba by uprootine of some giant tree bad been tumbled out of the nest on one of the boughs." "ou s:nile incredulously at tne picture," said Thorue, hesitatingly "Perhaps vou are right," he continu ed. ''lt'mav have had no likeness except in his imagination. Yet would not a rose dropped in the mire be still a rose, and for a little while only little while retain its fragrance ? Kven though besmirched somewhat, perhaps one who uever before beheld a rose might see its beauty and lonjr to pluck it from the mire. And tb bud tbe while might it not be all un conscious of U3 smirch .' "A romantic conceit, you would say. Possibly. But I think he fan cied something of the sort, and I must have caught it from him," said I home, with a strange flush I did not answer, and presently be resumed with the air and tone of a man who might havo forgotten his listener. "Perhaps Lad he known more of womankind be might ha.c detected that her fatal blemish was the ex quisite refinement of every refined sense, save that whioh would have warned ber of '.he mire. But to fol low out the foolish conceit this was the first rose that had fallen in hi path, and its beau'.v intoxicuted him His had been a dull, plodding life, w ithout romance or sentiment ; a life of slow, painful effort, illy rewarded. 1 here is always a vein of romance in such fellows. It is the stronger lor baviop- been pent up: and, witb bis backwoods nncoutbness, perhaps bo had a womanly heart. A rare bond of sympathy, which neither di vined, there was between this man in whose life tbere bad been no beau ty, and this lost girl down in tbe mire, with all tbe beauty of sweeten girlhood, which must needs Lave been destined to develop into divin est womanhood. And was it so very strange? forgetting all hat another man might have remembered, be loved ber. "And she? unconsciously, perhaps because of bis great, honest love perhaps it was only a girl's caprice she loved bim with a wild impulsive fervor be could not comprehend. To her it was an awakening to a new beauty that compassed and surpassed all that was beauteons. And she drank it in, as a flower does tbe dew, and bloomed the lovelier for it; and it fil!el ber witb overflowing glad ness, akin to that which wells forth in the song of wild birds at tbe ris ing of the summer's sun. "Poetic, is it ?" 1 must have caught that from bim too," said Thorne, de tecting, I suppose a look of surprise in my face. TJ tie SEPTEMBER 1, 1875. I said nothing, and after a pau?e ho resumed in a tone of sad reverie: "It awakened her too, to a sense of lier smirches, and her transforma tion was complete. She was already freed from the toils of her betrayer. After a few days he had wearied of her and deserted her. She was fre to go to the devil as is every wo man who is betrayed. Sde saw it all with woman's quick instinct she was a woman now foresaw all, and anticipated it With strange com posure she told him the sad end bad come.- For him life bad promise. Her destiny no matter, it was fixed. Tbey had reached tbe parting of their ways, and she bade bioi tare well. "lie replied no matter what. In bis great love he believed the impos sible possible, and was ready t en couater a!L lie asked her to be bis wife. For aa instant there was a look of ccstacy and of despair in her eyes, such as might fill some lost soul to whom was given glimpses of para dise. Then, with rigid calmno.-s, she said : "Do you not understand! it is im possible.'' "Abe maintained trie same lmoas ,6jv0 composure, while be implored j ijer t0 believe in herself, in him ; and f ever prayer wed up from human heart it did from his then to be lieve in the futuro that must be in store for them. "So more new," she answered w;th a hollow laugh; "when you Luvo thought you will kuow I ara right ; then you may come for tbe last tiiie." He returned the next day and tbe next ; but until a week bad passed she refused to see bim. In that time he bad thought it out to bis own satisfaction. In bis ignorance of the world be thought to be superior to fate, and for them to win a new life. He did not know then that for tbe lost woman there can be no new life tbat once she is lost, no matter how little sinning, bow devilish sinned against, she is lost forever. When they met again, he told ber how barren and dreary his life had been ; bow bard and toilsome it must be. He scarce could ask ber to share it For bim, with her love, us toil would no longer be toilsome, nor us poverty poor. With tbat to inspire bim he felt be could overcomo all ad versitv. 1 ailure, even, would be no failure then. How patiently he would work for her, she conld not know. Could she trust bim and help him ? She mado no answer, hhe saw clearer, perhaps, than be, what fate awaited her. Despair had already seized upon ber Cbokiog down 'be big lamps in bis throat and stead j iug his voice, wun all gentleness and earnestness be asked to be permitted at least, to help her out of the mire and toward tbat pure womanhood which be felt wa3 hers of right, and for which she bad been created. She looked searchingly into bis eyes and witb such longiog gaze as f castaway at sea might ux on a pass ing sb'p, and cried out: "Take me away from this any where let me be yours always." Thorne paused, and I noticed bis lip quivered. He relighted his pipe, and after puffing vigorously for a few minutes, with a bitter smile con tinued. He was a poor fool at last. He should have married her then, and, with that patience of which he talk ed, began the redemption of her life and the ennobling and beautifying of bis own. But be was, in truth, a great overgrown boy, and, in boyish way, he set about building castles in the air planning for them a roseit future, made up of his youthful day dreams and the sweet fancies that had filled bis imagination in the long winter nights, when he sat gazing in to the glowing embers in the huge fire place of the old log cabin. She listened at first in glad girlish glee, then laughed merrily at his cas tle building, and putting ber hand in his told him happy enough would be a very modest little home just such as he could afford, were it but a sin gle back room up stairs. It would be their home. She needed no pa tience to enable her to wait till he could win a better one; but could there be better than it would be? And he should not go on planning more hard work ; it would not be so hard then for she wasn't foolish for thinking so, was she? see asked in sly, eager, doubting tone if she tried ever so much she could help a little couldn t she : "Love roe as now," be whispered, "then I shall have a giant's strength and courage indomitable," and Thome paused as though lost in rev ene. Again ne resumed : At last they settled she should go to a country town in an adjoining Mate, where she bad relatives. She was sure thev would not send her away ; and he, outor his little wages, was to be privileged so he put it to send her the larger half weesly, tbat she could no, burden them. In lit'le while she wanted it to be long enough, she said, to make sure he would not repent in he would come for her and they would bo mar ried So she ouitted the city, lie re mained to work with fierce energy n the hopeless effort to work up the better pay and to ponder the ques tion ot how to eke out bis starvation wages so that they two might live a balf-starved life on what he alone bad managed to live in starveling fashion. That was tho matter-of-fact side of bis romance. Dismally matter-of-fact, wasn't it? But in bis ignorance of life and himself be didn't half re alize bow dismal it was; and work- ug for her, the work was holy. Un der such impulse be improved some what in bis dull, laborious way. lie even made bold to ask a raise of pay; and, old M . happening to be in a gracious humor, added to it two and half dollars a week. V bat exulta tion he felt at tbat it would be impos- ;ble for me to describe. Ilia joy was unbounded when she wrote the was'pround of him now.' 'For meanwhile be bad ber letters to inspire bim with hope and courage. Brief missives they were. Illy spell ed and penned in cramped, childish scrawl. "They told, in childish pi rase, of I CM scamperings across the meadows and through tbe early autumn woods, in happy girlish glee. They disclosed the perfect unconscious happiness of a bright, joyous nature, amid tne bright and joyous , in natr.-e. Ink Hugs there were, too, of her wifely plaoniugs for their home, and these lightened his toils and strengthened him as naught else would have done. But he remained, the saoie poor fool at last. Not that he doubted for ber or feared for himself.- But, fool that be was, be did not know that love, all purifying, bad effaced it He thought of her stain, and be trem bled for her.. Could she ever put away from herself tho horrid phan tom of her former self, or would that be the specter of their future, to curse them both? And in all bis plans for theni, tbe fool planned this skeleton in the-closet, and how doable-locked and barred and nailed down and plastered over the. closet should be, that should be set in the very heart of their borne. And he resolved tbat it should be bis lite-work to keep the closet double-locked aud barred, and nailed down and plastered over, that she might not cower before tht ter rible specter of her past He revolv ed it till it burned iuto his very soul. one of this ho wrote her, but un consciously it must havo been reflect ed in his letters. It came upon ber like blighting frost upon tenderest bud tho thought of this nameless horror that must cling to her always, before which ho must shriuk from ber with unutterab'e loathing, the more ten i ile when it should bd fas tened to him for Lfe. It fil'ed her with deathly despair. She ceased writing. ben be came she was gone. ine had ueu ukc a striken lawn a-quiver with pain. .si ltfl -1 1 home paused abruptly, and turn ed again to an unfinished manuscript. "And the finale:" I queried. V hat became of her.' Did she "What becomes of them all are taey not all lost, he said in quick", harsh voice. "The end you have just reported what may bave been the end ot such a life," and be took up his hat and went down stairs has tilv. II. I got down tJ the office late the next afternoon to find tbe city editor in a stew. ot a reporter about, and I borne bad come in an hour before with not a line of report of the street tragedy which he had been sent to make, and helplessly drunk. I was ordered to hurry out there; the Times would be a half day behind on it then, and to make the most ot it in what time was left. The first man who came in would be sent to help me, and I needu't mind the nigbt work; soirebody else would be put on tbat. lhe street auair was the seusatiou for tbe next day's issue and my instructions were to "work it up for all that could be made out of it." I started at once for street, wondering as I went what was the matter with Thorne, who was a tee totaler, and had never befo'e been known to miss news be was sent af- er, tbat he should come back in 11 iiuor and miss tho sensation. Of course it would cost bim his place our city editor was one of those who had a Dose for news, and gave no man an opportr nty to miss a second time. But I bad little time to think of it then. Arrived at street, I found there was very little mystery about the last night's murder. The woman bad been stabbed by her lover, L , who in those days was keeper of the notorious gambling hell in place. .No. iO, where the affair happened was a neat cottage, of plain exterior I elbowed my way through the throng of bareheaded women, street gamins, comer loafers, and curious passers- by who had gathered about the "scene of the tragedy," and was en deavoring to satisfy tbe policeman stationed at the door, tbat I wasn't bogus reporter, when Hicks, the de tective came out, with "Hello! Come to take Thorne place? What's come over him? Xev er saw bim so before; bntl suppose be'll be all right in the morning. Come in." Without stopping to reply, I enter ed. ithin tbe house was elegant ly fitted up. Everywhere were evi dences of tbe most exquisite taste a woman s, it was to be seen at a glance. The stabbing had happened in a chamber off the parlors what the upholstery reporters would style a boudoir. Here upon the floor, near a window opening into a conserva tory, as she had fallen in her death agony, lay the inanimate form of the murdered woman, lhe blood tbat had spouted from the wound in her breast hung in clotted splotches from the rich damask curtain and trailed over the carpet aud spotted an over turned bronze jardinier, and where it trickled down her side bad formed a sickening pool. The coroner had been delayed by an inquest in anoth er quarter of the city, and everything bad been kept as found by tbe police on their arrival. aV beery looking patrolman squirt ed tobacco spit into a Sevres vase ol rare pattern, staring stolidly tbe while at a tine copy of the Sistine Madonna, that from the wall looked down on the stark form there. The surgeon a assistant, a lank young man with green spectacles, lolled back in a plush covered easy chair, with bis boots on tho rosewood bed stead, and read the morning Times. The surgeon himself, who was there to make the post mortem, stood at a dainty inlaid escritoire, on which were ranged, ready for use, his hor rid saws and hooks and other dissect ion: instruments. He smoked tbe while, and discussed Fourth Ward politics with the polico sergeant who bad been detailed to take charge of tbe premises. Everywhere were el egant articles of rrrtu, and all tbat was suggestive of grace and beauty and life, witb the warmest, softest coloring, blended in ghastly disorder with the horrid proofs of the bloody horror. I should have quitted tbe place at once but tbat I was there tot take it all in, that I might write it up in all its gbastliuess. As it was. I only remained after i hastily noticing what 1 bave told you to glance ut the insensate clay there, which was, of course, to be the chief feature in what I was to take in and write up. As you began n LL O WHOLE NO. 1-2(50 as an editorial writer and bave work ed only on papers which tabooed j ter in tho country. He was very ill, sensations, you can't know what; so the" old woman who piloted me ghoulisb-like business it seemed, this jthrousfh the begrimed corridor to his cataloguing of each of the hideous ; door tol 1 me, and the "poor doctor," details surrounding this hideous sen-, sation. Perhaps 1 recall it the more vividly because it was the first and last reporting of the sort tbat fell to j Thome, in the last stag of brain fe rny lot . vcr. The dt!iriu:u had passed, and She most have been a wondrous i beauty.-- Her form even then seemed j matchless in symmetry and grace. iter mce must nave ueeu one ot rare loveliness; pallid in death and dis torted by pain, it was lovely still. There were sweet, cbildi.-h dimples ia ber delicately molded chin. Her lips, parted by dropping of the jaw and discolored, retained semblauee of dainty pout, like half-blown rose, and tbe glossy film tbat bad settled over ber eves did not wholly conceal what glad sparine ana quicn emotion una suuuti mere. mere reuiuiueu , also faint traces of hard lines indicu- j tive of imperious will and wild, fierce : l i i -1 rri : i passions, though there was, too, a strange tenderness in every feature. But over all was a terrible expression of weariness. I ean't describe it. But, despite my efforts -to note all professionally, with view solely to working op a hrst class sensation, the story it told of long, weary, hidden sickness at heart made my lips quiv er and my eyes fill, and 1 turned away. To complete my report l had to in terview an old tegress, who, it seem ed, was the only servant ia tbe house as well as tbe only witness to the tragic affair. 1 found her in the base ment kitchen, guarded by a police man she was detained as a witness huddled up in the farthest corner, crooning dismally, and swaying ber body to and fro as if to keep tunc to ber doleful lamentations. "De deah bressed chile. I kuow'd something drefful war gwine to hap pen I know'd it, 1 koow'd it," she repealed over and over again. "Didn't I see," she went on when I succeeded in making ber talk, "tbe drefful look in her durlia' face, wheu I was a-dressin' her ha'r in the eben in'? She 'peared jes' like'-a 'corpse. And I c uld'nt help pattin' ber ha'r softly like an' whisperin', 'don't be down-hearted missus.' Den de big tears come in her eye an' the cried fit to break her heart, an' throw'd her armsroun her aunty's neck and sez: 'Now go, aunty; dat will do.' An' she didn't say 'nother word, de bless ed chile. "I know'd den niore'n ever sum thin' drefful war gwine to happen; an' I kept watch on her. When I war gone, she took off ber splendid satin an' her glitterin' dimon's aud put 'em away in de bureau. An' out ob de bottom drawe.' she touk dat poor old common black dress what 1 never seed afore, an' put it on; au" she lay out dat ole water proof what I never seed afore neither. An den after awhile she call me again; an' when I go in an' say, 'What, missus,' she never Bed a word, but jes' kissed me and whispers, 'Good-by, aunty.' Den I know she war gwine away, neber, neber to cum back tny nore. When I beer a carriage stop at de alley gate, I know'd suab suiulhin' war gwine to bappin. Dea she weut an'open'd dat cur'us little draw'r in ber writin' box an' took out a bun dle ob ole letters with a pink riblwa roun' dem. "1 kep' lookin' an' I seed her open one. She look at it a long time, l'en she look at the pictur' what war iu it and den de big tear3 come agin. "Jos' den in cum Mass' L . She didn't Leah nor notice till be went to kiss her. Den she draw back mighty quii k an' seared-like an' poke 'em in her bussum. .Mas.-.' Le seed it an' spoke up rough, berry low and fierce. He war aw fu' jealous ob ber; an' she was awfu' proud; an' I see his eye shine like de rattlesnake's in de brake. An' 1 know'd sartin' suah sumthing drefful would happen den, an' I war afeard to look an' slipped down stairs an' prayed de Lor' to help her quick. Den I hear a little scream, and suui thin' drapt, and de door slam, an' all wasptill as death. I waited till 1 couldn't wait no more Den I slip up stairs berry sor)y, an' dar she war, witb de blood spurtin' out her bres'. An' I kneeled down by her. and tok ber bead on my lap, an' tried to stop de blood; but it was no use. De awfu' whiteness came in ber face den. and she opened her eyes an' say, low to herself: "'To-morrow I should have been free from this living death aud John' nd den she shut ber eyes and put out her hand jes' like a pi can I ti ny gwine to its mammy, and whis pered low: a little sbiver, and darling missus war " 'Mother.' "An' she gave den de bressed, me." Tbus much, broken by sobs and hysteric ejaculations, I extracted with great difficulty from the old negress, which completed the material for mv share of the report, and I was about to go, when Jones, who bad been de - tailed to assist me. came in and call- ed my attention to a little packet of' letters wbicb bad been fouud on the person of the murdered woman. They were a lover's, evidently; but Jones said tbey were very old, and gave no clue to the writer unless it were the signature, "John.' lie read a paragraph from one of tbem, which I recollect yet: ion say your life has been a hor rid lie; but, darling, we shall find the truth, and live it." I chanced to look over J ones shoul der as be read. The handwriting seemed strangely familiar. I looked again; there was no mistaking it; it was 1 homes. Ibis, then, was the ending of tbe strange story be bad told me tho night before; and hej bad told it oat of bis own life ! I no j longer wondered that he bad seemed peecblessly drunk. 111. As I bad expected, I learned next momma that 1 borne naa ucen un charged. The Time bad no use for a reporter who bad missed a sensa- tion, tbe city eoitor remaned lor the benefit of the rest of us, and we went on news gathering as though Thorne bad never been. But when seve.al days bad passed without aoy of us ! seeing or bearing from bim, and I j learned from tbe cashier that Thorne 1 had not called for the little balance of his pay, my conscience smote me. and I determined to bunt him up, feeling somehow that be needed help. It vas no easy matter to find him. AH of us were required to leave our ad dress With tbe Citw srlifnr that too might be sent for ia case of an emer gency, liut Thorne somehow had evaded this requirement; or, possibly, as he seemed to be always at bis desk when not out for the Time, it bad not been required of him. After much bootless search, I found him at last, in a dingy little garret ia one of the tumble-down rookeries that ia those davs lined court. He was not so poor as that would have ! i'.njilied, though his pay was beggar i ly enough; but, as I afterward learn- ed. he shared it witb a widowed sis- w he somebody bad sent for, had "giv" h'ua un " " I entered sofrlv On th hod lay he was in a dpon fimnr In murine to Lis side I brushed off a chair a pila of unfinished manuscript, such as I bad so often seen him toiling at after 2 o'ciock in tbe morning. Afterward I found it to be a compilation of some of the more striking of his reportorial experiences, at which doubtless be had delved in hope of sometime get t ng something for tbem. I did not stop to notice tbe manuscript then, but, goiog to his side, touched his hand. His finders rinsed n-pntlr on mine, bis eves half onened ,. o J and be .- , -. ' miniiy gasped: ' Our lives, darling, have both be. :i hes; now we shall find the tn. j ' A nd he was dead. "il'udy to nukj up the form, sir," said the f ireman, opening the door. "Hire's tho schedule for yon," re plied the night editor. "Kill that re print on the eighth page, to make room for the tiro in square." "And now," Le said, turning to me, "We'd go.'' Viliy and WUsa Lamps Explode. All explosions of coal oil lamps are caused by the vapor of gas that col bets iu the space above tbe oil. V hea fail of oil of course a lamp contains no gus, but immediately oa lighting, the lamp consumption of oil It -;ius, soon leaving a space for ga.-, w hich commences to form as the lai:it warms up. and after burning a sh it t;me sufliett gas w ill tciu mulate to form an explosion. The gas ia a lamp will explode only when ignited. In this respect it is like gun powder. Cheap or inferior oil is al ways the most dangerous. The tiame is comraun'cated to tbe ga ia the folluwing manner: The wick tube ia all lamp burners is made lar ger than tLe wick which is to pass through it. It would not do to have the wick work tightly in tho burner; on the contrary, it is essential that it move up and down with perfect ease. In this way it is unavoidable that space in the tube is left along the side3 of tha wick sufficient tor the flame from tLe burner to pass down iato the lamp and explode the gas. .Many things may occur to cause the liame to pass down the wick tube and explode the lamp. 1. A lamp may be standing on table or mantel, and a slight puff of air from tbe open window, or the sud-. den opening of a door, causes an ex plosion. A lamp may be taken up quickly from a table or mantel, and instantly explode. A lamp is taken into an entry where there is a draft, or out of doors, and an explosion ensues. 4. A lighted lamp is taken op tt Might of stairs, or is raised quickly la place it on tbe mantel, resulting in an explosion. In all these cases the mis--ebi' f is done by the air movement either by suddenly cheefciogtbe draft, or forcing air down tbe cbimney against tbe flame. fi. Blowing down the chimney to extinguish the light, is a frequent cause of the explosion. ''.. Lamp explosions have been caus ed by using a cbimney broken off at the top, or one that has a piece broken out, whereby tbe draft is rendered va riable, na I the flame unsteady. T. Sometimes a thoughtless person pots a small-sized wick into a large burner, thus leaving too much space in tba tcbe along the edge9 of the wick. 5. An old burner, witb its air-draft clogged up, which rightfully should be thrown away, is sometimes contin ued in use, and the final result is an explosion. A Myalerjr llmrrat l'p. TLe Atlanta (Ga.) Herald, of tbe Ttb iust., thus tells how a girl's mis chievous acts were exposed: "AH newspaper readers in this State re remember the startling and unac countable manifestations which oc cj.red at Surrency, on the Macon A Lrunswick I.ailroad, a year or two since, aad w hich was attriboted to the agency of spirits. The bouse of Mr. Surrency was turned into a pan demonium for the time being. Crock' cry frcm unseen sources wonld fall into the middle of the rooms, brick bats would crash down, and billets of wood would be hnrled :i at win dows, seemingly without any human ! agency. 1 he wondenul occurrences, j however, finally stopped, and after i a w bile lived only in the remembrance ! of those who bad witnessed and j heard of tbem. Some time since sim- - ilar manifestations began in the fami- ! ily of a very estimable lady, Mrs. Kussell Johnston, of Lartow, on the iiue of the Central Kaiiroad. the ' crockery, brick-bats, aad other porta ! and small articles rained about the i house, in the most astonishing man- ner, causing no little terror to the in- mates, ilowever, M. John A. .Mc Millan, a son-in-law of Mr. Joinson, mot being frightened entirely ont of bis wits, noted tbe similarity of the manifestations to those at Sarrency, and finally remembered that tbey had employed in tbe family as a servant at tbe time a colored girl, who had also been in the employ of Mr. Sur rency at the time that those strange freaks of the unseen agency took place in his house. Thinking that the two ranst certaio.y have some connection with each other, a strict watch was kept opon this girl, and she was finally detected ia tbe act of taking a brick from from a concealed norition about ber person, and hurl ing it into the middle of tbe room, liere, then, was tbe secret She was immediately apprehended, and un der fear of being dealt witb by law, confessed tbat sbe was the author of the mischief. Wh ex you observe a lady drop a handkerchief in the street, and not st'.p to pick it np; the chances are 10 m I thai she hasn't got herstooD-over fjre;si on. - ; - Most people are like eggs. Too full of themselves to hold anything else.
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