o 0f publication pset Herald " fwSfil .p. Pottmastert neglecting OtoS- .ni ". ttiuck. i V .Uir1 'Vdc1 on ooUecUoa SotuerMU Penna. nexander H. Ooftroth hat ' .,t-E. A""";.,- in Somerset and VJ-7rAXTOBNE' T LAW '-isj,w!: , H. I B. Af . ill practice U So. SuWJbUJ ntwnded to. ii"- T-' ATTtUET AT LAW, '0.'liZ71t uen lonUbnslnetaen- "pc!'"1 I.b. U 70-lT Jll J .TTOKXETATI-AW. Mammoth Block.ap stairs. pt t'r'?? ueetwn ade.et- iSiErU u"t4W,,i,y- f. Jn.KStVATLAW bumerw-'l, Pa. r l LA. ESTA B L I C H ED, XXVIII. NO. 16. SOMERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 24, 1879. WHOLE NO. 1472. BANKS, ETC. Sorbet Bank EW- BANK :o: County flARUS J. HARRISON, Cashier end Manager. tVlle nude in nil parts of tha Colled Stat. Cherioderatc. Batter and other check! ool lectedi cashed. Eastern and Western exchange alwayjband. Eemtttanoei mad. with prompt Beet. Lnntl loUcltod. Pari d Miring to pnrchaw C. S. 4 PER CENtCNDED LOAN, can ba aocommo datad kit Bank. The enpona are prepaid In denonione of 60, ICO, MO and 1.009. la bob a. aicu AiGnlor Fire anl Lilfi Insurant, JC N HICKS & SON, SOMERSET, PA.. And .eal Estate Brokers. TABLISHED 1850. Herxo detre to sell, boy or exchange prop erty, or lfi -rt F will 1' """I" t- SCOTT, em will find It to their advantage to rKiUi4 deacriptk thereof, at no charge li madenif n.id or rented. Keal ettate bueit,eii xeoeraltlilbe promptly attended to. aoKio IJilN B- fj iTTCRXEYATLAW m v.inmuth Bi'ic.-. j-Tw hi. nulled towlih AU 11, BomerMt, P . frn k KVPFEU ATTOKIS CIS 41 CS " theireare U1 V -"-t-d wncuully attended to. CHALES C. OETON'S BACCO STOKE. 0.0OLE TT()RNEY AT LAV?. pj. froieMilnal busmcM entrusted 5itilliwiiuproinju!iaoij nueiuy. nrjiSXk fOLBOKX. ATTOKSEVS AT j ' all ItufiueM. entrusted to their care i. nnii'r l'uortoaiiy aiifnaea lo. jrKVEYIXG, Writing Deeds, &c, at?arftort B'U?e. ftUiin at Cawtieer h Co.' Store. C. F.V. ALKEK PHYSICIANS. T. E. M. KIMMELL & SOX kt tbrlr prrfeMional errlop to the Hti tff;Mnfrietaoi! ncmity. One of the menv t ue ana can at all tinire. unlcxr iiri.letaioo ntvtti, be Kmtril at their ottior, Alain ht. TX J. C KILLER baa permanently located I'aBffuiKirtfce practice of hit prvfaaaiun. Jux xpmit L baric a.rUHBcer (tore. L 1. BEfllAKER tender! hU profenlonal if ktikw to tn ciuaeni ot kumcraet ana Ticui' iiila is nuir n, one door went of the Bar- a lux. fil VX. aiUJXS, DEXTIST, Bomeraet, 1'?l llsw is Oanter'i Block, np atalra, nt at aa at all timet be found prepared to do toj (. ncaat ruling, refmiaunr. ex wai. at. Artlneial teeth of all klnda, and ot maaawriaUiuerted. Uperatlont warranted. Jjr. 1. G. MILLER FETSiCIAX j- SURGEON, h mm w South Bend. Indiana, where be watauaitM toy letter orotnerwite. iH G. B. MASTERS is Somerset ft the practice of hit m. ud leader, hit umlrstiunal aenrlcet to t of town and tarritidine' country: offlce in uarwmtiyioropied hylr.Milltr:re!'ideDCe fctsrxotwre. Dr. W. F. FUXDEMJERG IateReflident Snrsren, liM Eye and Ear Inflnnary, abaiei tcrraeiitly in the ii!ZK.r2VE treatnert of all f the Ere zzi Ear, indui- e!K8 and Threat Jj. M Kenth Owtre Kirei. DENTISTS. JHXEILLS, '-"tmu jtert new bwildlng. Xaln Croat Street. ka Semereet. Pa. DEXTIST. EWia.'. . i"lSL,Lm!;f'1 teeth In Ihl. place. . j;-" oemamt forteeth haa tn- J1rK my fadliUet that I ea T teeth at fcwer pricet than rum "J her pbu in this eiintry.- "-- w . '" Kl teeth for pi, and If irr. Joining euoatiet that ,s2?w'BW at any tim. od eet CItti-i! violtort will find tt to their Interest and uu4il'ay Ciirara and Tobaoro at my atwe. I 1 ..ell', an undersell any estamlshment tn and am certain that my atov can- n !ti. in quality. CheruvU and clgnr- nners in the practice oi nnukiiiE, ana met fur those accustomed lo nar- lton hand: Very choice brands of acco and (Jlirart have .tun oeen re- disiKised ot at lest pneet man nave since the war began. A choice lot nd. The leat fine cut in the marked y counter. THE SIGN OF THE )IAK Gllil. HAHYCTH ELCCI. E met 10 Toliiet a eotlca. at unewiDkA ceiTea t.Wt been heal ol Pi;et i it told o I CALL iT '1 A DXI Lualeof Letten having be piMlierauI indebted t those havli duly aatli ol said dec tember, 1 Aug.l ISTRATOR'S NOTICE. ul L. Shaffer, late of Shade Twp, ueceseu. lmlnistrath'n on the above estate wanted to the undersigned by the y, notice it hereby given to those . make Immediate navment. and alms against It to present them 9-ated for settlement, at the real. lent 1, on Friday the loth day of fckp- PH1LIP F.SHAFFER, Administrator. SHIES' LIVEB FILLS tlmnderd rrntitj for the cure of ilitlala. illTenst, vr Kick lletwdsctae, and all rie- he stomach and liver loroTer Jltf bis: "SUcr' tirvr PMt cured me ol an t'A ot Liver complaint of eight years' m. r.vana, joiiei, ins. rrice. E. Sellers A t'-o., propr'a., fitts- i by an aruggitis. Have been l.lvrr 'i mH Amu range incut; yeart. K me ol an at standing.' cts, a Ixix. burg, l'a. of IEPIEXBEE. The gulden rod Is yellow : The com It turning brow a : The trees in apple orchard! With fruit are bending down. The gentlao't bluest frirgci Are curling In the tun: In dutty pott the milkweed lit bidden (Ilk has spun. The sedge, flaont their hart-t. In every mtadew nook : And asten by the brook-aide Make aler in His brook. From dewy lanct at morning The grapct tweet odort rise; " At noon the roadt all Butter With yellow butterflies. Fy all these lovely token! September'! day! are here. With rammer'! best of weather, And autumn's best of cheer. Bat none of all this beauty Which floods the earth and air, Is unto me the secret W hlcb makes September fair. 'Tit a thing which I remember : To name It thrlllt me yet ; One day of one September I never can target. Scrilincr for September. A ItAala ROTE 131 TWO HlLTEt. a meeting of the Stockholders i narei tire itn. k uo at their office, riant .anion, bomerset txrantr. Pi on I ue y, !utier loth. 17, at 1 o clock, r. v., furttapurp d electing ottlcert for the entning year. Kid th -ansactlt.n of such other business as majeomea ire them. Sec'y. layer's Cleiiy Pectoral 11 il 'IX , :a i t; Tor Discaact of the Throat and Lungs, tucb at Coughs, Colds, , nooping Bronchitis, Conch, Asthma, and Consumption. SOT ELS. D:ao.d HOTEL. sroisTowjr pa. T,!L9n ,kno,n "ouse hat lately JavunC' " aM tt vry T Urt pabUc h.U attached kTf r 1 hd it the k.we pua- .CrSTER,Proi. S. E.Cor. inamond, Stoystown, Pa. I'El AVIS BROS 5 Sign and Frrsrn U-M.rr ,T to i I I-' a.D. .'r??t!' dT the indastjiis. ill (tart eo, bova amA mirlm futer .1 '..w t The work it light and at. rone cn'ro nybt T!'!rJlrL"h thlt Botiee will i Ji1" U1 ZZr. and te, (ur Uemtelvea. 5?. wware tojrinjtip Urf Mat H L Aaratta, Maioe. The n utatior. it a attained, in consequence of the maicUons cum it hat crodiiccd during the last li.ii-eutury, b a sufficient assurance to the public 4t i; will rxntinneto realize the happiest rcsnits iit aia hi ksircd. In olmott every section f country there are pcrsont, publicly known,,okivc bn rettored from alarming and even dcfcitte disttsct of the limps, by its nse. All w holivt tried iicknor. ledge its tnperioritr ; and whes ia virtual are ksown, no one hctitates at to trie nl'iicinc o employ to relieve the dis tress an) titering acculi.ir to pulmonary affec tions. jili:T Pectorax. always affords in stant racf.jmd performs rapid cures of the milder virictis of brtndual disorder, as well at the moroToraidablc tiseascs of the lungs. At a oTorianJ tochildrcn, amid the distress ing discars jhich beiet the Throat and Chest of Childhood ill- invaluable ; for, by its timely use, multitndi at rcscncl and restored to health. This mir'.itko gains f.iendt at every trial, as the cures S i-konstantly prodncing are too rc markable' .e t forgotten. Xo family should be without it a:f tlio-e who have once used tt n?ver will! I Emu.?nt PXicianl tliroughout the country prescribe 11 Clergrtncn often recommend it from their dkedge cf its effect. j rRXTABlEI. .T Dr. J. C. AtR & CO., Lowell, Mass.. Praclkalmnd Analrtieal CbeinicU. SOU BY AlJ DEl'GUISTS ETEETWUEBC. 4- ,.?v , A trmat t .i will txi ju-J dire. fa-. li tre develOT. with th. ii d tin KIDNZYS: r-rn re the Kat.nl eieant u. ii i;icy wwrk well. hoa:h M i; IT t w pee".rw rKjuy, A-te arc .use w lolluw wuu "15 C'TtsejI'T! iUlt.ilM,Vi Ilea !ai:r. trspepsia, aaa tisuaai Pilet r Kid- cry raSt.at. t'rJveU T-ULctra, Vn!!nrwt ia the I rise, fl.ltyer 'riae;orEheaaat:c .let acd achK, et!irWl Is T"!"" 1 nro that ahuuld iu bc j cayelieu nuitty- KlCwEY-WORT WT!7 fMeTe 4r Dilnnl ac'lrm tnd tal fMe nviun: cefI. .rylt.WIVO seaiiirf. aacirann a-.!t w'H sttoee gi i.u-a f'mt wrv O k, m-Mtt".'"" th. aw tmd l'!!t-t 1 . whr t fcl--Ml ;..it.nt K!i- .TT-TT- w. I enre rc .ryaiacS JlitUiti teytutb'jt coMyovnti at4 a tie tlx caartior Sedirioe, pnparrd Utr.vir. e4 'U he th-mand miilllHtl Thouwtifls ave teence win dd one retoiien! Ow tawkarefaLeatlx eaarto e.alllue Kplrlt, hei.ie la pare water. upon karinn M Jiow. JkmI W?t and dreary." It id midwinter; the ec- ne ii Kirklingioo, on tbe Loo don ah.i Ncnb western ; the time, a qnarler 10 eleven, just after the night mail has flashed through without stopping bound for Liverpool and the North. Tbe railway officials pointsmen, signalmen, pjrtera, plate layers are collecting preparatory to gointf c CP duty for the nigbt. "Where's Dan?" asks one of the crowd upon ibo "platform. "I saw him in the hnt jast afier the quaner to eleven went through. Can't have ccme to anv harm, sure ly. "No; ho said he'd son something drop from tbe train, and he went down the line to pick it op." And Dan had picked np aomeihing. It was a baeket, a common white wicker basket, with a lid fastened down by a siring. What did it con tain? Kefrcsbnients ? Dirty clothes? What? A baby a child half a dozen wtcks old, no more. A pink and white piece oi human china as fragile as Dresden, and 3 delicately fashion ed and tinted as a biscuit or Rose Pompadour. "Where did you come across it asked one. "Lying on the lice, just where it fell. Perhaps it didn't fall, perhaps it was chucked out. What matter? I've got ii, and got to look after it; that's enough for me. Some day maybe I'll come across them as owns it, and then they shall par me and take i; back." "Is there nothing about him? Turn him over." Tbe little mite's linen was white and of fine material, but he lay upon an old sbawl and a few bits of dirty flannel. All they found was a dilap idated purse, a common snap-lock bag purse of faced brown leather lneide was a brass thimble, a pawn ticket, and the half of a Bank cf Eng land note for 100. 'What good's ha'f a bank note to yon?" "iiaa a loats better loan no bread' "Ye?, but yoQ can eat one, but yon can't the other. Won't you catch it from your wife T llow'll yon face her, Dan ? What'll she say ?" "She'll sav I done quite right," re plied Dan, stoutly. "She's a good sort, (Jod bless her." ' So are vou, Dan, that's a fact. God bless you, too," said more than one rough voice in softened accents. "Perhaps the brat 11 brmg too luck after all." Winter-tide again six years later, but this season is wet and slushy. Once more we are at Kirklingtoo, a long straggling village, which might have s.umbered on in obscanty for ever, baa cot tbe -Norinwcstcrn line been carried close by it, to give it s place in iiraasnaw ana a certain im portance as a junction and centre for goods traffic. But the activity was all about tbe station. All the permanent officials had houses and cct'.agcs there ; in the village lived only the field laborers who worked at the neighborisg es tate, or sometimes lent their band for a job of navvying on tie line. These poor folks had a gruesome life of it, a hand-to-mouth struggle for bare existence against perpetual pri vation, accompanied by unremitting toil A new parson, Harold Treffry, bad come lately to Kirklicgtoa. Ue was an earnest, energetic young man, who bad won bis Fpurs in an East End parish, and had now accepted this country living because it seemed to open op a new field of usefulness, lie had plcngei brave ly iDto the midst of his work; he was forever going op and down amonr. his parishioners, solacing ana com forting, preaching manful endurance and trustfulness to all He Is now paying a round of paro chial visits, accompanied by an old college cbum, who is spending Christ mas with him. "Yonder," said TrofTry, pointing to a tbin thread of smoke which rose from some gannt trees into the sullen wintry air, "yonder is the house if, indeed, it deserves so grand a name the hovel rather, of oue whose case is the hardest of all the bard ones in my onhappy cure. This man is a mere hedger and ditcher, one who works for any master, most often for the railway, but who is never certain of a job all the year round. He has a swarm of young children, and he has juBt lost his wife. He is abso lutely prostrated aghast probably at tbe future before him, and his utter incapacity to do his duty by his motherless little ones. Jack!" said tbe parson, stopping short suddenly, and looking straight into his compan ion's face, "I wonder whether yon could rouse him ? If you could only get him to make a sign; 'to cry or lacgb, or take the smallest interest in common affairs. Jack, I believe you are the very man. You might get at him through tbe children tbat marvelous batiky-pat ky of yours those surprising tricks a child takes to tou naturally at once. Try and make friends with these. Perhaps I when tbe father sees them iatorcsled and amused be may warm a little, speak perhaps, approve, perhaps savile and in the end give in. Jack, will you try?" Jack Xewbiggin was by profession conveyancer, but nature bad in tended him for a new Iloudin or a Wizard of the North. ue was more man can a profes sional by the time he was full grown. In addition to the quick eye and fa cile wrist, be had tbe rarer gifts of the suave manner Bnd the faco of brass. He tad even studied mesmerism and clairvoyance, and could upon oc casion surprise his audience consider ably by his power. Tbey entered the miserable dwell ing together. Tbe children eight of them were skirmishing all over the floor. They were unmanagable, and beyond tbe control of the eldest sister, who was busied in setting out tbe table for tbe midday meal; one other child of six or seven, a bright-eyed, exceed ingly beautiful boy, the least were not nature's vagaries well known likely to be born among and belong to such surroundings, stood between the legs of the man himself, who bad bis back to the visitors and was crouching down low over the scanty fire. The man turned bis head for a mo ment, gave a blank stare, then an imperceptible nod, and once more he glowered down cpon tbe fire. "Here, little ones, do you see this gentleman ? He's a conjuror. Know what a conjuror is, Tommy ?" cried tbe parson, catchicg up a mite of four or fire from tbe floor. "No; not you; nor you, Jackey, and he ran through all their names. iney naa now ceased tueir gam bols and were staring hard at their visitors tbe moment was propitious : Jack Xewbiggin began. He had fortunately filled his pockets with nuts, oranges, and cakes, before leaving the parsonage, so be bad half his apparatus ready to hand. Tbe pretty boy bad very soon left tne iatner at mo ere, and baa come over to join in the fun, going back, however, to exhibit Lis share ot the ppoils and describe voluminously what had occurred. This and the repeated shouts of laughter seemed to produce some lm prea&ion on him. Presently be looked over bis shoul der, and said, but without anima tion : "It be very good of you, sir, surely; very good for to take so kindly to tbe littie chicks. It does them good to laugh a bit, and it ain't mocb as they've had to mako 'em lately." "It is good for all of us, now and again, I take it," said Jack, desist ing, and going over toward him, and the children gradually collecting in a far-off corner and comparing notes. "You can't laugh, sir if your heart is heavy ; if you do, it can be only a saarn." - : ...... While he was speaking he had ta ken tbe liible from tbe scelf, and re suming his seat, began to turn the leaves slowly over. "I'm an untaught, rough country man, sir, but I have heard tell tbat these strange things you do are only tricks ; ain't it so r" Here was indeed a hopeful symp tom. lie was roused, then, to take some interest in what had occurred. "All trick, of course ; it all comes of long practice," said Jack, as he proceeded to explain some of tbe sim ple processes, hoping to enchain tbe man's attention. That's what I thought, sir, or I'd have given yoa a job to do. I've been in want of a real conjuror many a long day, and nothing less'll do. See here, sir," be said, as he took a small, carefully folded paper from be tween the leaves of the Bible ; do you see this ?" " . It was half a Dank of England note for 100. "Now, sir, could any conjuror help me to tbe other half?" "How did you come by it?" Jack asked at once. "I'll tell you, sir, short as I can make it. Conjuror or no conjuror, you've got a very kindly heart, and I'm main sure you'll help me if you can." I Dan then described how he bad picked up tbe basket from tbe quarter to II Liverpool express. ' There was tbe linen ; I've kept it. See here; all marked quite pretty and proper, with lace round tbe edges, as though its mother loved to make the little one smart." Jack examined the linen ; it bore a monogram and cre3t. Tbe first be made out to mean II. L. M., and the crest was plainly two hammers cross ed and tbe motto, "I strike" not a common crest and be never remem bered to have seen it before. "And this was all ?" " 'Cept the bank note. That was in a poor old purse, with a pawn ticket and a thimble. I kept them all." Like a trne detective Jack examin ed every article minutely. Tbe purse bore tbe name of Hester Uorrigan in rude letters inside, and tbe pawn ticket was made out in tbe same name. I cannot give you much hope that I shall eucceed, but I will do my best. Will you trust me with tbe note for a time?" "SurelT, ir, with the greatest cf pleasure. If yoa could bat find the other half it would give llarry that's what we call him such a grand start in life ; schooling and tbe price of binding him to some honest trade." Jack shook the man's band, prom ised to do bis best, and left tbe cot tage. When Jack XewbL';ia got back to the parsonage he found that bis host had accepted an invitation for them both to dine at tbe "Big House," as it was called, tne country seat of the squire of tbe parish. Tbey were cordially received at the "Big House." Jack was handed over forthwith to his old friends, who, fig. uratively, rushed into his arms. They were London acquaintances, no more ; of the sort we meet here and there and everywhere during the lea son, wbo care for as, and we for them, as much as for South Sea Is- landora, but whom we greet with rap turous effusion when we; meet tiem in a strange place. Jack knew -the lady whom he escorted iatodinirJras a gossipy dame, who, when blsack was turned, made as much sport of him as of her other friends. ' "I have been fighting your batik? all day," began Mrs. Sitwell. "Was it necessary ? I should ave thought myself too insignificant."? "Tbey were talking at lunch of your wonderful knack in conjuring, and some one said that the skill cpght prove inconvenient whea yoa jUay. ed cards for instance." ' "A charitable imputation ! With whom did it originate?" f. "Sir Lewis Mallaby." "Please point him out to me. ; lie was shown a grave, scowling face upon the right of the hostess a face like a mask, its surface rough and wrinkled, through which the eyes shone out with a baleful light, like corpse candles in a sepulchre. f- ' "Pleasant creature 1 I'd rather not meet him alone on a dark night" ' "He bas a terrible character, cer tainly. -Turned bis wife out of floors i because 6he would not give htm an heir. It is this want of children to inherit his title and estates which preys upon his mind, they say and tbat makes him so morose and melan choly." -- Jack let his companion chatter on. It was his habit to get all the Infor mation possible about any company in which he found himself, tor his own purpose as a clairvoyant "and when Mrs. Sifvell flagged he plied her with artless questions, and led her on from one person to another, making mental notes to serve - him hereafter. . It is than, by etrefal and laborious preparation, tbat many of tbe strange and seemingly mysterious feats of the clairvoyant conjuror are performed. 1 ' When the whole party was assem bled in the drawing-room after ditner a choros of voices, headed by that of tbe hostess, summoned Jack tq his work. . -i - . There appeared to be only one- dis sentient Sir Lewis Mallaby who not only did not trouble himself to back cp the invitation, bnt wEto tbe performance was actually begun was at no pains to conceal his contempt and didgust. ' p" Tbe conjuror tnado the convention al plum pudding in a bat, fired wed ding rings into quarter loaves, did all manner of card tricks, knife tricks, pistol tricks, and juggled on conscien. tiously right through his repertoire. There was never a smile on Sir Lew is's face ; he sneered unmistakably; Finally, with an ostentation ; tbat savored of rudeness, he took cot his watch, a great gold repeater then looked at it, and unmistakably gave a yawn. . . - - . - Jack hungered for that - watch li reedy he saw it. . Perhaps through it he might make its owner uncinfort- abie, ii only lor a moment, list now to get it into bis hands. Hetri-d for a watch, a dozen were-," No, none of these woold ao. Itmust be a gold watch, a repeater. Sir Lewis Mallaby's was the only one in the room, and he at first dis tinctly refused to lend it. But so many earnest entreaties were ad dressed to him, the hostess leading tbe attack, that he could not in com mon courtesy continue to refuse With something like a growl be took his watch off the chain and handed it to Jack Newbiggin. A curious, old-fashioned watch it was, which would have gladdened tbe heart of a watch collector all jeweled and enameled, adorned with crest and inscription an heirloom, which bad probably been in the fami ly for years. Jack looked it over cu- rion&Iy, meditatively, then suddenly raising his eyes he stared intently into Sir Lewis Mallaby's face, and almost as nuicklv dropped them again. "This is far too valuable," he said courteously, "too much of a treasure to be rieked in any coDjuring trick ; an ordinary modern watch I might replace, but not a work of art like this.". He handed it back to Sir Lewis, who received it with Unconcealed satisfaction. He was as much pleas ed, probably, at Jack's expression of possible failure in tbe proposed trick as at tbe recovery oi his valuable property. Anotner watco, However, was pounded up into a jelly, and brought out whole from a cabinet in an ad joining room : and this trick success fully accomplished, Jack Newbiggin, who wa3 now completely on his met tle, passed on to higher flights. He had spent tbe vacation of tbe year previous in France as the pupil of a wizard of European fame, and had mastered many of the strange feats which are usually attributed to clair voyance. There is something especially un canny about these tricks, and Jack's reputation rapidly increased with this new exhibition of his powers. Thanks to his cross-examination of Mrs. Sitwell at dinner, he was in the possession of many tacts connected with the company, although mostly strangers to him ; and some of bis bits were so palpably happy that he raised shouts of surprise, followed by that terrified hush which not uncom monly succeeds the display of seem ingly supernatural powers. "Oh, but this is too preposterous," Sir Lewis Mallaby was heard to say quite aogrily. The continued ap plause profoundly disgusted him. "This is tbe merest charlatanism. It most be put an end to. It is the commonest imposture. These are things which he bas coached op in advance. Let him be tried with something which upon the face of it he cannot have learned beforehand by artificial means." . "Try him, Sir Lewis, try him your self," cried several voices. - , "I scarcely like to lend myself to such folly, to encourage so pitiful an exhibition." , But he seemed to be conscious that further protest woold tell in Jack's favor. "I will admit tbat yoa have consid erable power in this strange branch ot necromancy if yoa will answer a few questions of mine." "Proceed," said Jack gravely,meet ing his eyes firmly and without flinch ing. : : ; . ; ":'... "Tell ma what is most on mv mind at this present moment." "The want of a male heir," Jack replied promptly, and tbanked Mrs. Sitwell in bis heart. ' 1 "Pshaw ! Yoa have learned from Barke that I have no children," said Sir Lewis Mallaby boldly, but then he was a little taken back. "Any thing else ?" "The memory of a harab deed that you now strive in vain to redeem." "This borders upon impertinence," said Sir Lewis, with a hot flush on his cheek and passion io his eyes. "Bnt let us leave abstractions and try tangible realities. Can yoa tell me what I hare in this pocket?" He touched tbe left breast of bis tail coat. : "A pocket book." "Bah I Ca va tans dire. Every one carries a pocket book in his pocket." "But do you ?" acked several of the bystanders, nil of whom were growing deeply interested in this strange duel. : Sir Lewis confessed that he did, and produced it an ordinary moroc co leather purse and pocket book all in one. "Are yoa prepared to go on ?" asked the baronet very haughtily of Jack. "Certainly." "What does this packet book con tain J" "Evidence." i The contest between tbeni now was a outrance. "Evidence of what?" ; "Of facts that must cooner or later come to: light.; You have in that pocketbook links in a long chain of circumstance which, however care' fully concealed or anxiously dreaded, time in its inexorable coarse must bring eventually to light. There is no baud, says the Spanish proverb, which is not seme day fulfilled ; no debt that in the loo? run is not paid."" : "What ridiculous nonsense ! I give yon my word this pocketbook con tains nothing absolutely nothing but a Biok of England note for 100." "Stay!'' cried Jack Newbiggin, facing him abruptly and speaking in a voice of thunder. "It is not so you know it it is only the half." ' And as he spoke h9 took the crum pled paper from the hands of the real ly stupefied baronet It was exhibit ed for inspection tbe half of a Bank of England note for 100. There was much applause at this harmless and successful denouement of what threatened at one stage to lead to altercation, perhaps to a quar rel. But Jack Newbiggin was not satisfied. "As you have dared me to do ray worst," said Jack, "listen now to what 1 have to say. Not only did I know that that was only the half of a note, but I know where the other half is to be found." - "So much the better for me," said tbe baronet, with an effort to appear "hamomw'------ "That other half was given to Bhall I say, Sir Lewis ?" Sir Lewis Mallaby nodded indiffer ently. It was given to one Hester Gorri gan, an Irish nurse, six years ago. It was the piece cf a deed which you " "Silence ! say no more," cried Sir Lewis in horror. "I see you know all. I swear I have had no peace since I was tempted so sorely, and so weakly fell. But I am prepared to make all the restitution and repara tion in my power unless, unhappily, unless it be too late." Even while he was speaking his face turned ghastly pale, his lips were covered with a fine white foam, he made one or two convulsive attempts to steady himself, and then with a wild, terrified look around, he fell heavily to the floor. It was a paralytic seizure. They took him op stairs and tended bim ; but the case was desperate from the first. Only just before tbe end did he so far recover the power of speech as to be able to make confession of what had occurred. Sir Lewis had been a younger son; tbe eldest inherited the family title, but died early, leaving his widow to giro him a posthumous heir, the title remaining in abeyance until time showed whether the infant was a boy or a girl. It proved to be a boy, whereupon Sir Lewis Mallaby, who had the ear liest intimation of tbe fact, put into executioo a nefarious project which he had carefully concocted in ad vance. A girl was obtained from a foundling hospital and substituted by Lady Mallaby's nurse, who was in Lewis's pay, for the newly born son and heir. This son and heir was handed over to another accomplice, Hester Gorri- gan, who was bribed with 100, half down in the shape of a half note, tbe other half to be paid when she an nounced her safe arrival ia Texas with the stolen child. Mrs. Gorri gan had an unquenchable thirst, and in her transit between London and Liverpool allowed her precious charge to slip oat of her hand?, with the consequences we know. It was tbe watch borrowed from Sir Lewis Mallaby which first arous ed Jack's suspicions. It bore the strange crest two hammers crossed, with the motto: "I strike" which was marked upon the linen of the child that Dsn Blockit picked op at Eirklington station. The initial of the name Mallaby coincided with monogram the H. L. M. Jack rapidly drew his conclu sions, and made a bold shot, which hit the mark as we have seen. Lewis Mallaby's confession soon reinstated, the rightful heir, and Dan Blockit in after years had no reasan to regret the generosity which had prompted him to give the little found ling tbe shelter of his rar'e home. Very Satiable. "Sound," said the schoolmaster, "ia what yoa hear. For instance, yoa caanot feel a sound." "Oh, yes, yoa can !" said a smart boy. "John Wilkins," retorted tbe peda gogue, "how do yoa make that oat ? What sound can yoa feel ?" "A sound thrashing," quickly re plied the smart boy. Tha Virginia City Enterprise tells this story: Two men bailed each other from the opposite backs of a stream and exchanging greetings, many friendly questisns were put and answered. Tbe men were evi dently delighted to meet each other, and their only regret appeared to be that they encountered one another in a place where it was impossible for them to clasp and shake hands, the river not being fordable on ac count of its swiftness and the rocky and treacherous nature of its chan nels, while tbe nearest bridge was five miles above. Both men lament ed these unfortunate circumstances very much, but at length a way of getting over the difficulty suggested itself to one of tbem, whose pet name wo3 'Broncho Bill.' 'I say, Sam !' cried Broncho, 'it's a little rough for eld friends and neighbors to meet awar out here, thousands of miles from home, and then have tV part this way. Got yer pistol with yer ?' "I hev!' cried Sara, 'allers carry her.' 'Good ! That's some comfort : if we cant get across this yar stream to shake hands, why, thar's nothin' to prevent ns from takin' a shot at each other. Jist ride np to your left thar a rod or two. Thar, now, jist one good old neighborly home shot!' The men rode aside, and bang! bang I went their pistols. 'Yer smashed the pummel of my saddle,' creid Broncho; 'yer see the horse shied a little jist as yer turned loose, or yer might a plumped me good.' 'Yoa done better Bill ; yoa got in to the flesh cf my left arm 'bout half an inch. Good morning to yer, a safe journey to yer, and tell the folks at borne we met and had a good, sociable time together!' "Thank yer, and the same to yoa ; bet I'll give 'em a good account of you.' Sam then turned to our friend, and with tears in bis eyes, said: 'God bless him ! It is a great comfort to meet an old friend and neighbor like him away out here in this wilder ness place. A kinder, mere accom modative and agreeable gentleman never lived. I wouldn't missed see in' bim for $50 !' Laps at Picnics. The lap is unquestionably a most useful and admirable organ. When expanded, tbe lap will admirably bold fifteen qcarta of chestnuts, peaches, apples or other desirable fruit.'and there have been women whose laps would hold the entire supply of hairpins required tor their back hair, though, of course laps of theso enormous dimensions ere somewhat rare. It is, however, at picnics and tea parties that tbe splen did capabilities of tbe female lap are especially displayed. It is an easy matter for a lady,' while engaged on -picnic, a aaia ..,p .3to ct sand, another of pickled oysters, a third of ice cream and fourth of cake, togeth er with a cup of coffee, on her lap at one and the same time. In feats of this kind the female lap is nuique. Tbe young man who undertakes to hold anything on his knees come to grief. The utmost he can hope to do is to balance, for a brief period, a plate of salad on tbe ridge of bis legs, from which it sooner or later lips, with tbe most painful conse quences. As lor noiding a teacup or coffee cup on his knees, he reogniz- es tne utter impossibility ot tne thing. His only resource is to de posit it on the floor, or on the grass close by his side, after which he usu ally steps on it, or at least kicks it over. This indicates ia the clearest possible manner that man is not by nature a picnicking animal With out laps, picnics are dangerous to the integrity of trousers and legs, and there is no way in which art can remedy the masculine deficiency of laps. Let women go to picnics if they choose. Tbey can do so with out doing violence to their clothing; but man is flying ia the face of na ture when he undertakes to sit on the grass and to manage'six different kinds of food. It is true that pic nics consisting of women clone would not be popular. Young men are needed both to eat the legs of chickens and to go a mile and a half in tbe sun to bring water for the lemonade. He was a milkman, working up new customers. He removed his hat at the door, asked the lady if she was Mrs. Blank and stated that he bad often been struck with the artisttcjnkill displayed around her home. He never drove by the house with out thinking how happy its inmates must be. He had observed that the children were always dressed with due regard to harmony ot colors, tbe curtains had the hang of an artist's hand, and there was nothing gaudy abaut the color of the front steps. "We do not care for any more pictures- or statuary," replied the lady. "Pictures? He would as soon think of trying to sell her coffins as pictures. No. lie had called to see if tbe family were pleased with their milk man. If so, be would say farewell at once, if not " "We have no particular fault to find," interrupted the lady. Bat be asked her to stop and con sider. Her milkman was a fair sort of man, but no credit to a house like that . He had never been known to say any outside word in favor of the par lor curtains or the kitchen range, and he drove a horse sixteen years old and a wagon unpointed since the panic. His old horse crawled np, the driverehuided around the back door with his can, end that was the end of it He never went home and wished to his wife that they could have a lavender colored veranda or blue lamberquins, and never baited other drivers to say tbat Mrs. Blank was going to Saratoga for six week:. Tbe lady wavered. His wagon waa new, had a land scape on tha cover, and bis horse j cost bim three acre of laud out, in Browastown. Whea he drove up tie cLildrea stood ia awe, and if there were any people passing he took care to say to tbe boy on the seat : "Give mo the very richest cream now, for Mrs. Black is a bora lady, and ncn enough to have the best cf everything." That was his way of doing busi ness, and if bis patrons numbered all tbe leading governors, judges and colonels in the city be wouldn't be blamed. She must see She saw. She said he could begin the very next dar, and that she had been thinking of a change for the last six months. A narerloas PIstalAbwt. Frank S. Lord, the most expert and finished pistol-shot ia the country, is a man of 32, the youngest son of the late Thomas Lord, of New York. He is an athelete aud gymnast, and about 18CT began to try his skill as a shot at the eld Coalia gallery. The feats of Captain John Travers, now of Cleveland, had became a tradition, though whea Sandy Lawrence kept a ten-pia alley on the site of the pres ent Astor House, Travera' gallery, attached to it, saw some wonderful exhibitions of steadiness and skill with small arms. One of Capt Travers' feats was to shoot away a silver three cent bit placed between bis toes, and when Blondin crossed tbe Niagara he al lowed Captain Travers to put a ball through his bat. From a doubting friend Captain Travers won a diamond ring' by put ting a shot through tbe ring, and his feat of picking an orange from his son's head was tried again and again. Since Capt Travera' time billiards have driven out ten pins, and rifle shooting at long distances bas crowd ed pistol shooting at twelve paces in to disuse. Mr. Lord, however, confines his sport almo3t entirely to the smaller weapon, though Le is a una rifle shot. He is a member of the New Yc rk Club, and his bachelor chanv.-ors are adened with a carious stock of pis tols. Ia Paris be has mot Paul de Cassagnac and ethers cf tbe French dueling clique, and as onicbtd tbem with the certainty cf bi-i aim. For ten seasons past he ha btea chosen by the English-speaking residents of Paris as their champion, and a well chosen representative he has proven. On one occasion he pert -rme! among other feats of accurate ma Vsman ship, the folio win?: A cap of aa ordinary musket was placed opou the neck of a champagne bottle, and Mr. Lord, standing at 3G feet, or 12 paces, with na ordinary dueling pistol picked off the cap with out scratching the glass. Tha same feat was repeated with the pi.ol transferred from the right hand to the left TTwo more caps were pick ed off by the right and left hand fir ing respectively .but ia these instan ces the pistol was held ia reverst position, with the line of sight below instead of above tbe line, of fire. Th next shot was a fancy one, Mr. Lord standing with bis back to the object fired at, leaning far forward, and then with pistol pointed back between bis legs, picking off the cap as before. Tbe last of the six shots were made sitting ia a chair, again with back to target and leaning back till the tar get could be seen by the head and eyes bent back. It is a favorite feat to suspend his watch a fine import ed piece, costing $250 and put shot after shot through the loop at 3G feet A match or wooden toothpick laid across the opening of tbe golden loop is cut cleanly through, and though the watch bas been under fire scores hundreds of times, it still ticks oa to wards the day w hich may come whea a bullet's fractioa of ao inch out of the way may scatter the works in a shower of wheels and pinions. Ia shooting at tbe word of command, as in dueling, wbcre the seconds cry out : "Are yoa ready ?" "Rsady !" "Fire one two three !'' the shoot er being required to shoot between the words "fire" and "three," Mr. Lord, with a dueling pistol at 12 pa ces, struck down six j inch bullets hung cp by threads. Such an adversary on the field of honor would satisfy the chivalric yearning of about any mortal. At tha word "one" Mr. Lord fired ten consecutive shots into al inch cir cle, same distance. In Paris, where fantastic shooting is very much in vogue, he is known as "Lee diable American." He has frequently put 100 shots consecutive ly into the space of aa ordinary play ing card. On a recent date, showing his ability for long range firing with the pistol, he struck two caps out of three shots at a distance of sixty feet. As the ordinary musket cap is about of an inch across, tbe mere seeing of tbe mark was somewhat of a feat, but to see and hit it a3 well, was something entirely beyond tho com mon. Yet it was done at a certain hour previously agreed upon before a large number of marksmen, includ ing many members of the New York and Zettler Rifle Clubs. aa -. , f'i Elbt rllt) la Br We sum op briefly eight essential points ia bread making, as gathered from recent contributions to aa agri cultural journal of prominence,, and formed from the inner editorial con sciousness, viz : 1. Good wheat flour. Some vari eties of wheat, such as are deficient ia gluten,, will not make good wheat flour. 2. A good miller to grind the wheat The bread maker should be sore to Gad the good miller. 3. Tbe wheat should not be ground when dry. Chocee a "wet fccII" for the grinding. 4. The flour should b sifted I e fore Usin-r to separate the particles. 5. Good yeast This iamado from new hops. Sialo hops will not, with cf-rtaioty, make lively yeast. G. Thorough kneading. After it has bad enough, kiead it a while longer. 7. Do not let the dough raise too much. Nice out of every tea bread xakera in this country let their bread raise until l sweetness has been de stroyed. 3. The ovea can be too hot as well as to3 cool. Tbe "happy medi um" must be determined urxm and selected. There are three kinds of bread, viz : " Sweet bread, bread, asd sour bread. Sonio housewives make sour bread, a great many make bread, but very fe make sweet bread. Sweet ness in bread ia a positive quality tbat not many makers have yet discovered. Ills Wish. He stepped into a green grocer's yesterday morning with a vacant, weary, careworn lock on his face. "Do you want some potatoes ?" "I never eat them. I can't remem ber exactly what I came for." "Perhaps yoa want some coffee ?" "Ain't it tunny I can't remember?" remarked the stranger, as he scratch ed his chin with tbe back of his hand and scanned everything behind the counter ia a wild but ineffectual ef fort to brush up bis memory. "Do you want milk ?" "No ?" "13 it maccaroni, muatarJ, chow chow, soup or wine jelly ?" "None of tbem, sir." "Possibly yoa want a small meas ure of beeta V "ladeed, I do not" Then bis eye.? sparkled and he said : "I have it now. I remember what I came infer; it all comes back to me like a dream of love." "What do you want ?' "Well, now, it is aa plain as day. Wasn't it funny I didn't think of it before ?" "It wa3 rather strange bnt what will you have ?" f "Yoa woutget mad, will yoa?'1 "No, sir." "Well then, 111 tell .you. I just stepped ia here to ask if you'll scratch by back a little for me ; I have prickly heat" He wasn't scratched, but not beeu for hia activity he have beea kicked. had it would A Fnilowphle Friend. t'omprmte. A citizen driving in on the Holden road tbe other day met a lad about twelve years old on the highway some six or seven miles from the city. Tbe boy had a shot gun as long as himself, but no game, and the citizen inquired :- "Out for a hunt ?" "I was out for a hunt," was the re ply. "And yoa haven't kill-id any thing ?" "Well, no." "And yoa don't expect to ?" "Not unless I can git within strik ing distance. Yoa see, two cf os came oot together. After we got out here I wanted to hunt for lion., and tbe other boy wanted to shoot os triches, and so we divided op. He took the powder and shot and I took the gnn. I'm over here looking for turnips, and he's over ia that field watching a boiler log for bears. It's soch hot weather I guess we won't have uioch lock, anyhow." 'I shoali like to sell yoa a gimlet said a careworn looking man, as he entered the oCee the otcer day. 'We have no use for one, replied the other. 'But you should always look into the misty future,' went oa the friend demurely ; next winter yoa will want to make holes ia yoar boot heels, so yoa caa get yoar skates oa.' ' 'I use clu1) skates ao straps required.' .'loa. may want to screw some board3 together some time. This old fashioned method of driving the screws ia with a hammer, is pernic ious, a3 it deteriorates tbe tenacity of the fangs of the screw, as it were.' 'Nothing to-day, sir. . - 'This gimlet acta as a cork screw.' 'I don't want it.' 'It may also be used aa a tack hammer, a cigar-bolder, and a tooth brush.' 'I dont' wan. it' 'It haa an eraser, a pen. aa ink stand, a table for compound interest, and a lunch box attached.' 'I can't help that ; I don't wish to buyiit' 'I know you doa't ; you're one of those mean fellows that won't buy a gimlet unless it haa a reataurant aud a trip through Europe and aa Italian Opera Company attached. You're the kind of a maa who would lire near an electric light to save a gas bilL' And tbe peddler left with his men tal plumage on tbe perpendicular. A Hasband'a steeenge. A strange method of retaliation as practiced by a gentleman wbo bad been despoiled of hia wife's affection, is told by a private detective : A couple years ago a well known vocalist ran away with aa equally ' prominent artist's wife, and for a time the guilty couple could cot be found. Finally the husband came to me, and, by aid of my books, traced tbe wife and her paramour to a street not far from tho Albany depot. From there they fled to Chicago, and cow the husband keeps track of that singer, and wherever he has an engagement he writes to the manager detailing the facts in the case. This usually terminates the vocalist's engagement, and to-day he can hardly get a chance to sing in any first-class concert. The artist ia not altogether vindictive in this manner, for ho bas notified the destroyer of hia home tbat "when be will leave the woman, return to his own deserted wife, and make a written acknowledgment cf the wrong he ha3 done, be will cease his perse cutions.' This story is undoubtedly true ia its essentia details and ia now given to the public for the first time. All tbe parties are well-known in Boston, and one of them ha3 stood very high ia public favor. One of the School Board Inspec tors asked a small pupil of what the surface of tbe earth consists, and was promptly answered - "Land and water.' He varied the question slightly tbat tho fact might bo impressed on tbe boy's mind, and asked "What, then, do land and water make?" To whieheame the immedi ate response "Mud." "Is there any ote distinctive trait or function possessed by maa exclu sively?" aiked Professor X. of the members of the Sophomore class. "Yes ; he talks." "So does the parrot" "He walk3 erect," quickly resf ond ed another member. "So do the cbimpanzae and kangaroo."
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