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Somerset, Pa. -inrheroirt H.me. All bnnlneM entmrt t is ore eiienJed 10 with promptness and mi:s l rr;ir, ATTORN EY-AT-LXW. Somerset Pa. " v. Mamm.ih Bloek. np stairs. Entrsaee, 1 t treet. Oolieciloi.s made, emalef -1 tlilen eiamlned, and all leinl bulncss wwith promp'ness and fidelity. AWE M. HICKS. i JI'bTICE OF THE PEACE. Somerset, Penn'a. uvmi:ll. II. i. KIMMM.L. j !. E. M. KIMMEMi SON ' ii'lfr ihir proleMlona! service t- the etti-'o'S-.met and vi-nltT. trneof the Bern '"i ii linn can at lltlrncn. an leu pnilCfl'-n-ttunfl. lie f.un'l at tbelr.ottioe, on Alain n .; ot the liimond. VI. J. K. MILI.EK lias KTina- "n-sMr l.ntel In lierlln f. the nnutlce of !r-. t.i e oiUse oppuotie CUarlee Krilnir re. apr. 'iU '70. tC V:. II. r.KIT.AKEntonoYrs his f ..n,rilii..ti1 an-(Mi r ttta lt tn if KlMtl ni viftm'v. mr m reu Jeoos on iim ttl.lt I 11 lfi I H Am. tn. I A C MILLER. PHYS1CHX kSVKGEOX, Tm"r.1 f. 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Iiiaanod -- . uysu(W.,,Pa i.ri i . . ... LDU1NISTRAT0RS NOTICE r'ii be ratios a the above Mtmt. 'i.e,"L'l1'fderigned, notice Is Wtn.il. i"xleWe. to It u make laum ua r, . . "'w"twi isr wtu 'KU. .?y. lb 17th tlavof P.hr.. -it ui wall, a. -r .i.ua, uivnru, lata t-HAELES A viirn Adialutstrator. In VOL. XXIX. N0.3S. A J.CASKBEFR. Wil a FRF.ASE, PraiWcDt. Secretary. CHAS. J.HARRISOX, J.S.HAKTZELL. Treasurer. Manager. DIRtCTOnS: ISA AO KAVFM AN, JOS. H. ZlXMtK.lt AN. FI). KIERNAN. LD. KYLE HS0MERSE1V IIECHANICAL WORKS, (Limited.) NEW ARRANGEMENT I been ooneoll.lated under tho style of in rtr 1 lmv Liraitad. Located In the hnrongh of Si-nwreet, and U pre pared to furnlib all kiuds ot Maffiiaral Fail., intftaai The celebrated HARTZELL PLOWS! are tcann'aetnrM and kept on baod. line of AUoafuU I COOKING AND HEATING STOVES. All kin!. KEPAIRINO will be promptly done. The public li Informed that all kinds or work gen erally due at a FIRST-CLASS FOOHDRY AND MACHINE SHOP! Can lie procured at J-JTSllORT NOTICE. Kc!t 15. WOOLEN MILLS ESTABLISHED 1813. HsTlpr for the past year or two. been entirely ...hut. aumilv ih iDcre&fnT demand for my nuli I bare uuilt an addition lo my UIU and pat In a lanre amount oi HEW AKD IXPE07ED KACHUTCBY and thereby almost doubled my capacity for man ulclurliiit. 1 have now on hand a lame stock consisting of HL.ANKETS. CASS1MERES, SATINETS. JEANS, REP ELLA NTS, FLANNELS, COVEKLETS, CARPETS. YARNS. a.C, which I wish to TSAIE FOS WOOL. Farmers, I have the kind of goods yon need. I want jonr WOOL! to work up R1BHT IS TOUR OWN C0OTT, and In order to reach all my enstomers tn (rood time, I have empl-ed th same saents I bad last car. and In a4.lill.n Mr. Jueeph L Danaherty, who first Introduced my goods Into many partf of thlncoanty. .... I will strlre. as tn the past, to gira first class roodf and full value to alL j)-New niKUiiuert and those we failed to find last year, will please address card to WM. S. MORGAN, Qiiemshoning, l'ev. A IT 7 CHARLES HOFFMAN, (Alxjv. Henry Hollley'a Stere.) SOMERSET, 1. LATEST STYLES Hi LOWEST PRICES. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. WALTER ANDERSON, lU C02. M IT. AKD SUTH AVESUE, NO. 226 LIBERTY STREET PITTSBTJKQH, PA. jxo. aicxa. la bub at. aicaa. Apsts lor Fire anl Iiie Iiisiiraiiis, JOHN HICKS & SON, SOMERSET. PA.. And Real Estate Brokers. ESTABLISHED 1830. Persons wbo desire to sell, tuy or esehanga proiwrtv. or rent will ni u i iou- ' ... , ... i . mi ehiarare Is male anlew s.dd or rented. Real eslate business generally will be promptly attended to. LUX 18 S.T. LI1TLE&SOXS, lOeJ DALTIMOItK STREET, CITMBEREAND, Md. WATCHES, CUAIUS, SOLID SlLTttWARC, DIAMOKDS, AMEBICAS CLOCKS. FILEKCU CI OCXS, SI HIT PLATED WAKE, JEWELKT.te. HOLIDAY PBESESTS! Watches and Jewelry Repaired by Skilled Workmen and returned by Express Free of Cftanra. No extra eharge t Engraving. Goods war ranted as represented. eet It NEW BAJSTK. :o:- Somerset County Bank, CHARLES . HARRISON. tVliier and Manager. CvUeeUoas Bade la all parts of the Cnlted States. Charges moderate. Batter and other cheeks soJ leetad and cashed. Eastern aad WesUraeaeaaaws always oa hand. Remittances made sriU prosspi aeas. Aceownu stiMctted. Parties desiring parcaaee V. . 4 PEB CENT. FVNUED LOAN, caa k aecm oatod at this Bask. The eowpoas are prepaid te dcaoBlnaUoat af M, 100, MO and 1,000. MERCHANT TAILOR MERCHANT TAILOR .0 WHEN SCHOOL LETS OCT. When achuol "lcU out" at un-dowu time, And sliadows long, up hill aide climb. With leap, and romp, and laugh, and shout. In kilt and smock and roundabout, By grain-field fence, through pasture grass, A foot-worn way the scholars pass ; And bright-faced elf and brown-faaed lout Go heart-glad home when school "lets ont." I sit and watch, where, white and alow, The ruiatreM moves in grace below ; A lithe young girl, with folded hands. With low-down locks in wide, brown bands, Who floats in light where deep shade ties; With sweet, sad looks in lake blue eyes ; I fit and watch, and hoe and doubt I know not what, when school "lets out. Were I so youug an they who know The mild maid-rule, just there below, Would I he glad as they who pass By grain-filds fence and pasture-grass ? Would 1 be glad the home-bound way, And laugh, and shout, and romp as they? It might be so in roundabout, But not as now, when school "lets out." Some day how soon I cannot tell. But some day pnou, I know full Well My feet shall full with beat as slow The green-laid way that hers do go, And I shall feci my great heart rise To tcniL r looks from lake blue eyes, And there shall be no fear, no doubt; Her hand in mine when school "lets out." Educational Ilety. THE 8:30 EXPRESS. We had been mameu just six months, and on our return from the hencymoou had settled down for good and all at my dear old-fash ioned home, Suunj-side. At that time I do not believe there existed a happier man in the United King dom than myself. I possessed a nice 6nug little property, with no inconsiderate rent roll ; and the es tate was not in Ireland, where "Ro- ry of the Hills ' might have made me feel not quite bo 6ecure in the possession of the broad acres of my ancestors. 1 had also just mar ricd. after a courtship in which contrary to the usual experience. the course of love ran quite imooth- ly. Besides all these blessings, 1 re ioiced in trood health and spirits. hat more could a man desire to make life happy ? Although 1 was thankful that my property was not in Ireland, still had no dislike to the Emerald Isle, as some of the happiest days of my life had been spent there. . For was it not when I was quartered with my reaiment at the Curragh that I met mr darling Nelly in Kildare? On seeing her, I gave up the bril liant career ot a soldier, taken pris oner by her soft eyes ; and, though it cost me a pang to leave my old regiment and all my friends, still I felt there could not be a happier or more contented man than myself. "There could not be!" I repeated, looking down in my wife's weet face, as we sat side-by-side beneath a spreading lime-tree in the cool, calm, and quiet of a glorious Sum mer evening listening to the birds sinPnS- ... As these thoughts .passed inrougn w 1 a 1 1 my mind, a dov crossed tne lawn and placed a telegram in my hand, the Bight of which immediately fill ed my heart with misgivings. Tak ing the missive in mv hand, I turn ed it over and looked at the hand writing on the envelope, as though I could make out something in that way. '"Open it Frank, suggested Nelly: and accordingly I did so. It was from my brother's wile, and ran as follows : "John has met with a bad acci dent Do come at once, if you can." Immediately I ran over in my mind the trains that passed our lit tle out of the way place. There were only two. Then I would go by the 8:li0 express the next morn ing. This would be the first time ince our marriage that I had left Nelly even for a day ; and she cried at the thought of it. My prepara tions were soon made. "What a blessing a wife is I" I mentlly ejaculated, as I watched Nelly deftly packing my portman teau, and thinking of a thousand little things that in the fuss of this sudden emergency I should most certain have forgotten. Seven o'clock the next morning found us at breaklast, Nelly herself making te coffee and boiling the eggs, and making much of me, as she ministered to my wants. I looked at my watch. "Nearly eight, Nelly. I must bo off if I want to catch the train." "Very well, Frank ; I am ready. I will walk as far as the gate with you?" It was a lovely morning, the her ald of another of those real Summer day 8 that we had been having lately days that were bo very warm that it was impossible to do anything but sit lazily under the trees by the river with a liook and basket of fresh dewy fruit It was an idle life for a man ; but a country gentle man has a good deal of time at his disposal. At this early hour everything was cool and fresh from the heavy dew ; and Nelly, in her airy muslin and blue ribbons, seemed in keeping with the lovely cool Summer morn ing. Passing into the garden, she picked a little bunch of white shell pinks, with a sprig of oak leaf gera nium ; and, reaching up she pinned them on my coat, 6aying, with a loving smile, they would remind me of her when I was far away. As though I needed anything to keep her dear face in my memory. Over the lawn we went, taking a short cut to the entrance gates. A river ran through Sunnyside a deep, silent river, over which the grand old trees bent their boughs. We 6tood on the bridge and looked down into the deep, clear waU.T, and watched the trout flashing merrily backward or lying still and quiet in the shadow. Then we said "good bye." Nellie's eyes were full of tears, which she bravely tried to keep. " Write oon, Frank; I shall miss vou dreadfully ; write the very minute you arrive. uVaa AarYmff. Goou-bye. and take care of yourself." v "I wish I might come to the sta tion and see you off!" she aaid wist fullr, and then added aa I shook omer SOMEBSET, my head, "Oh, I know I will walk down to the river bank and see you as the train passes ! Be sure and look out" The railway line ran almost through Sunnyside, but the station was a mile off. It was rather pro voking to be so near and yet so far. We exchanged a last kiss ; and then I hurried away, turning every now and then to wave my hand to the slight girlish figure on the bridge. I reached the station ten minutes too early. I might easily have staid longer with Nelly. So I got my ticket and walked up and down wishing the train would come Morley was a dreary little country station with nothing to look at, and not even a newspaper to be procur ed. Seeing a hamper done up in straw and basket matting, I walked up to it and read the direction. was a little startled to see that it was addressed to myself, till I remem bered that it must be the hamper of plants I had ordered down for Nelly so, calling a porter, I bade him take it down to Sunnyside at once think ing it would amuse her to be ar ranging them in the conservatory daring my absence. When the express came in, I got into a carriage, the only occupant of which was a gentleman, a young man, with a very sunburnt face and dark eyes. I immediately station cd myself at the window, with my handkerchief in readiness to wave to Nelly. Very soon we came with in sight of the river, and ves, there she was, standing on the little rus tic plank that ran across, waving her hand and smiling, with her muslin and ribbons fluttering in the breeze!" "I wish she would not stand on that rickety plank," I said to my self : and, even as the thought rose in my mind, she moved, started, lost her balance, and with one wild el- fort to save herself, fell with a splash into the river, and I saw the water close over her. With a wild cry I sprang up and attempted to throw imnelf out of the window: for oh. Heaven! there was my wife battling for life in the dark cold water, and I so near, and vet oowerless to save her. Nelly darling," 1 shouted, "keep up 1 am coming! Ihenmv arms were seized Irom behind, and a voice exclaimed : Are vou mad ? There waa a short desperate struggle; but my companion was so much stronger than I that he held me fast "Let eo I" I cried. "She has risen again ! I must save her ! Oh, Ileav en. she has sunk !" Too late, too late! I saw the white arms flung up wildly; I caught a glimpse of the agony of the terror stricken face ; and then she sank, and the dark - river glided on unruffled. It was all over in a few moments, The train went on with undiminish ed speed ; and my companion, still holding me in with a grip lite iron, forced me back into the carriage away from the window. "Don't look !" he said excitedly, for he, too, had seen alL "Who was she?" Mute, hepless, with an awful feel ing of horror chilling my heart, I hid my face in my hands, and, in the agony and revulsion of feeling, felt 1 must go mad. To have been so near, to have seen it all, and yet nave been so utterly powerless to save her, my 6weet, gentle wife I The first half-hour att.T it hap pened was a blank. I was conscious of nothing but an awful bewildering desire to take my own life, to put an end to an existence that would be filled .with nothing now but de spair and misery ; for what was life without Nelly? "Who was she? repeated my lci- ow traveler, who sat just opposite to mt. "My wife," I answered ; and then relapsed into silence. He turned very pale, and present- ently uttered some well meant words of comfort ; but 1 stopped him. Don't," I said "I Bhall have plenty of time for consolation by and by." I was Btill trembling from the shock and could not realize my aw ful loss yet ; I felt utterly desperate, et was able to do nothing, as long v -ar 11 a- . a a1 a. as l live i snail never iorget mat terrible journey that hour and a lalf : I have often wondered since that I did not go mad. The train still dashed on; being . . -A A a an express, it 6toppea at lew sta tions. My only wish now was to get back again, as soon as possible, to see all that remained of her, the joy and very sunshine of my life. I knew 1 was bearing my trouble bad ly, and felt it was unmanly to give away like a woman ; but I buried my tace and groaned wnen tne mem ory of the bright sweet face arose and I seemed to feel her soft arms clinging round my neck. Again the desire to end my sor rows at once returned to me, and would not be driven away. "What is life without her ? ' lhe words haunted me till at last the very clang and rattle of the train seemed to repeat them. A kind of mist rose before my eyes, and for- gettihg that I was not alone, I at last took out my knife and opened it t was instantly wrenched Irom me and flung out of the window. "Heaven forgive you," said my fellow traveler, sternly, "for medita ting such a sin 1 Bear this trial like a man, and not use a coward ! I felt like some hunted animal at bay. lhe nombie scene was being enacted again and again in my mem ory, and I seemed to see that white tace and the struggling arms. iNeiiy was dead now, floating to and fro with the ebb and flow of the dark, cold river. The express still dashed on, fly ing past green fields and peaceful homesteads, . Would it never stop? At last it slackened speed and drew up at a station. I got out, feeling strangely giddy and bewildered. "Let me stay with you," urged my fellow traveler, the man who had within the last hour saved my life twice. "You can do me bo good, thank you all the same. set ESTABLISHED, 1827. PA., WEDNESDAY; FEBRUARY 23, 1881. I will wait for the down train I shall be better alone." - He wrung my hand, and tears stood in his eyes. "Promise me," he said, "that you won t think of doing what you thought of just now. 1 don't want to preach, but remember. 'He who sends the trial sends the strength to bear it too. " I have never seen him since, and have often wondered who ho was. I should like to seo his kind face and pleasant dark eyes again. I promised what he asked ; and those lew earnest words did more to quell the desperate thoughts that were maddening mo than any ser mon. Staggering like one just recover ed from a long illness, I walked up the plattorm and asKed when the next train would be passing down. I suppose there must have been something strango about my ap pearance, for a little group soon con gregated about me, ' and someone asked me if I was ill. "The next train down, sir," said the station master, hurrying up "2:15, sir." .! It was only, ten now moro than four houra to wait I Was he sure that was the only train ? I could never wait four hours in the state of mind I was in. "Can I drive ?" I asked, heetUess of distance, eagerly scanning the little crowd rround. "I will pay any money to get back to Mor'ey at once." The station master interposed again. Couldn 1 1 get a vehiclo of any sort to-day, sir, if you wero to pay a thousand pounds all off to the races." "Is there no luggage train, or any thing ? I must get back at once." "Sure there will be a cattle train at one, sir," volunteered a porter. "If your honor is in a great hurry, maybe they would give you a lift on the en gine." In the relief of mind this intelli gence gave me I astonished tie Irish man by putting five shillings in his hand ; and he was profuse in his thanks and blessings. Ah, but could the honest fellow have known the pang he gave me when, in his burst of gratitude, he called down Heav en's blessing on my wife, if I had one ! My wifo ! Oh, Nelly, Nelly ! I turned away hasfily, and com menced pacing up and down the platform. Three long hours ! How was I to get through them ? Up and down I tramped, with no compan ion but my own thoughts, under the fierce glare of that July sun that rose higher and higher in the cloudless blue sky. One hour dragged slowlv by. Eleven o'clock ! Only three hours since I had kissed Nelly and looked into her clear loving eyes ! She was dead now. and I should never feel the touch of her soft hand again nor hear the sound of her voice. It seemed an eternity since wc had parted, yet it was only three hours since we had 6tood side by side on the bridse looking down into the water. Ah, Nellie little guessed then that river would so soon be her grave, and that the cruel weeds would pitilessly cling round her and drag her down intojthe depths below till the pale face of my darling would rest cold and still in the ooze of the river bed ! Oh, would that I had clasped her tightly to my heart, and never parted, even for moment, from my love ! Onlv three hours and I seemed to have begun a new life ! Was this the betrinning of the life that was to be without her onlv the first of many days that would dawn and bring me" nothing but sorrow and misery ? No ; all my life there would be nothing for roe but the memory of a white stone in a church yard the grave where I would lay my broken luy. Up and down I paced, up and down in the blazing sun, till the very sound of my footsteps on the flagged platform seemed to be driv ing me mad. At last I stopped, and, pushing back my hat, pressed both hands to my aching, throbbing head. I wouid not think! what was the use of thinking ? Nelly was lead, and I was going back to her funeral. I shut my eyes and tried not to see the white f:ice with the awful look of agony imprinted on it; but it was of no use. I saw it yet the horror stricken face, the arms stretched out for help that never ... . , , X ' -it ll came. Uh. could i live wiui me memory of that sight to haunt me ? The time crept on siowiy ; every minute seemed to be an hour, and the hands of my watch seemed scarcely to move. The heat was dreadful. There was no shade nothinn but the dazzling sun, which was now high in the heavens ; but still I walked backward and forward, unable to rest trying to keep calm outwardly, to withstand the awful temptation that would come again and again when I contemplated my lonelv heart-broken future. Would one o'clock never come ? Suddenly I caught sight of the poor little bunch of flowers that Nelly had given me her first thoughtful, loving act I broke down then. Hot tears rushed to my eyes ; and leaning my arms on the ow wall bounding the station, i rave wav entirely, kissing the un conscious flowers passionately, and realizing how much I had loved and prized the treasure I had lost while the merciless sun shone down hotter and fiercer, scorching and drying up everything. - , . With a swelling heart I placed the fading flowers carefully in my pocket-book ; and then, lest anyone should see my emotion, drew my hat low down over my lorehead, and sumed my solitary tramp up and down the platform, envying Nelly, who was at rest Her agony was on ly for a minute, while mine would be for years and years as long as I lived. A quarter to one. The train would soon be in. Those last fifteen min utes were the longest of all ; time seemed to make no progress : but at last I heard afar off the rumbling of the coming train. The station began to get a little more animated, and then the long cattle train appeared in sight,, and drew up slowly at the station, went up to the engine driver. nere is a sovereign, v ill you let me go on the engine as far as Morley ?" "Jump up, sir, and welcome!" was his prompt reply. it seemed as though they never intended to start that train. I thought they would never stop shunting wagons and running the engine up and down. It seemed as if they were an hour waiting ; but at last the train glided slowly away, and som I had seen the last of the hateful station where three of the most miserable and blackest hours of my life were spent The cool air fanning my brow calmed me. Motion was pleasant anything was better than waiting; and yet the two hours on that en gine seemed interminable. But fi nally we drew nearer and nearer to Morley. A fearful fascination seem ed to attract my eyes to the fatal spot Setting my teeth, I looked long and steadily at the place. A little crowd had collect on the bank. They had found her, then. all that remained of Nelly ! And a kind of faintness came over mc for a moment When I alighted at Morley, I felt ten years older than when I had left it only a few hours before. The first thing my eyes rested on was the hamper of plants still standing there, and the sight of them most unmanned mc. A gentleman, a friend of mine, came up and put bis hand on my arm ; but breaking away before he could utter a word, I left the sta tion, and walked hastily along the scorching, dusty road scarcely able to drag my limbs along, and wish ing I could just lie down and die. Over the little bridge I went and across the lawn that we had travers ed together that morning. The door was wide open the dogs welcomed me noisily ; but their joyou3 bark ing and caresses jarred upon me, and I repelled the animals. In the dining room I found Mr. Sinclair, the rector, sitting silently and grave ly at the table. He started when he saw me, and took both my hands in his without speaking. here is she 7 I asked hoarse ly. "Lp-stairs," he said gently. i;ut you must not give way like this. Calm yourself before you go up stairs. The door opened, and Mrs. Sin clair came in, with her face showing the sorrow and pity she felt "My husband has told you then." she said. "Yes," I answered, bowing mv head ; "I am going up to see her." Slowly I went up the stairs, tread ing softly, as though I feared to wake her from her last slumber. I paused with my hand on the han dle, and struggled for calmness, then opened the door softly and went in with a dreadful feeling of awe and strange, hopeless misery. The room was darkened, and the sun shone softly through the closed Venetians : all was dreadfully BtilL The curtains of the bed were drawn, and I paused again ere with trem Ming hand I drew them back. Nerving mvself, I raised my eyes with an effort and saw oh ! Heav en ! was I dreaming ? Was it but a cruel mockery, a delusion, or was it really Nelly lying sleeping calm ly and peacefully, with the warm blood mantling her cheek and the waves of brown hair, damp and wet, pushed off the peaceful brow 7 With a beatinsr heart I bent for ward, and, stooping, kissed her, Yes she was breathing ; mv darl ing was not dead, after all ! The dear eyes opened, and loving a voice said : "Frank !" I clasp her tightly to my breast, and felt as though she had been giv en back from the dead ; then hold ing her soft hand in mine, I sank down upon my knees and thanked Heaven for preserving my darling, I did not know how she was saved ; it was enough for me to know that she was alive, to hear her voice atrain. and to look into her eyes which filled with tears when I told her what I had felt and Buffered since we parted. hen the first glad surprise was over I asked how she had been sav ed, and the mystery was soon ex plained. Some men working on the line had heard her cry, and just as mv fellow-traveler forced me back from the carriage window they had hastened to the rescue. They car ried her home at once, and after ward went for the rector and his wife. A p-ootl manv veara have passed since then ; but I often sit and muse n that terrible iourney on the 8:30 express, and afterward turn with deep thankfulness and look at Nel ly, fair and beautiful as ever, sitting with our children clustering around her. And as I hear her loving voice, I am lead to confess that I am a happy, contented man, and that my lines have iauen in pieasani places. Just as I had written these last lines and was closing my desk, Nel ly came in, and, laying her hand upon my shoulder, looked over the pages I had written, with her bright eyes full of tears, and said, softly : "Yes, Frank, we are indeed hap py. Heaven has been very good to us. Then we both turned simultane ously and looked out into the gar den and listened to the merry voices of the children at play under the lime trees. Presently Nelly spoke again. "Oh, but, Frank, you have for gotten to sav anything more about John !" "Very well, dear; I can say John's accident was so trifling that in a week, hearing what had so nearly befallen us, he came down to Sun nyside. And now call in the chil dren." And so my story ends, as all sto ries ought to end, happily : and I Jmt by my pen and fall to thinking, or it is too dark to write. The qui et calm of the twilight of the sum mer night brings sweet, solemn thoughts to my mind; and through the open waidow w wafted ! erald the scent of flowers, and I can hear Nelly's sweet voice singing the Even ingflymn. Moment of Terror. "Captain, you have led a busy life have seen mueh service both at sea and on shore. We want to call on your experience to settle a point of dispute between us." "At voujervice gentlemen." "You are doubtless acquainted with the Orkney Islands, where the wild fowls breed in the clefts of the rocks. The fishermen fasten a stick at the end of a rope, which is wel secured to the brow cf the clefts, and then placing one of their number astride the stick, he is lowered down the precipice in search of the game. You have most likely heard the account of the man who in striking at the birds with an iron plated boat staff, as they flew from their holes, cut two of the strands of the rope that suspended him between heaven and earth. "Below him was certain death above him a terrific wall of rock that seemed to reach the sky. I le gave the signal for hauling up by striking the rope twice with his staff. Neycr did his comrades pull the line so lazily. Slowlv, slowly dragged the rope over the edge of the ciiff, while the several strands seemed to fly upward with the rapidity of thought Every instant he dreaded that a weak place in the remaining portion would be un twisted, and so certain appeared his doom that he felt that every foot ho advanced up the face of the preci pice would but increase the height oi his fall. A sudden pause in the motion struck him with a new fea when the untwisting part of the rope came into the hand3 of the fishermen above, they at once per ceived his danger and instantly lowered another line. The fowler was rescued from his peril, but such was the effect of his terror during the lew minutes ot his Inghtlul as cension, that his dark brown hair was changed to gray."' Bad enough, said the captain, "but not quite the worst in the world. I don't know whether the chance which a voung nevvy of mine run foul of during the first vovage, in the Bay of Biscay wasn't just as bad. We were in a stumpy tub of a maflerdite brig, trying to claw off a lee shore, with a rolling sea and plenty of wind in short sudden puffs. The boy about six teen, slim-built, pale was an out-and-out lubber, fond of reading and skulking his duty whenever he could ; his mother, my only sister, a widow by the way, had made me promise to take care of him, but we were short handed, and he was forced to work Lis turn. Some of the hands had gone aloft to shake out a reef in the foretopsail the rigging was covered with ice it was a January morning well, the boy slipped, or was thrown, or blown from the yard his foot caught in a bight in some of the running rigging, and he hung by the heels, head downward, from the end of the yard, dipping into the sea at each plunge of the old craft, and hoisted'up again high and dry, every time she came to the wind. I expected every roll to see him jerked from his foothold, and no boat that we had could have lived a minute in that sea. I did not dare to luff, for fear of being taken aback. When I thought of his mother I had a great mind to save him, even if I beached the old tub ; but the point I wanted to weather was close ahead, and the roar of the surf did not sound al together the thing. We did save him at last I guess his feelings were quite as queer as that of your friend, the fowler. He had but one pull up, while my newy had better than a hundred with a cold bath in a frosty sea, between each pull nothing but an accidental half hitch round his ankle, and head down ward all the while." "Horrible, indeed. What did you say to the poor lellow when he was relieved?" j "Told him he deserved a startling for being so clumsy when he knew 1 j was short-handed made him swal low some hot collee and turn in He never went aloft again, and at the end of the voyage cut the sea and took to carpentering. That's some years ago, and his hair ain't turned gray yet." . The Teit. A pious old lady who was too un well to attend meeting, used to send her thick-headed husband to church to find out the text the preacher se lected as the foundation of his dis course. The poor dunce was rarely fort unate enough to remember the words of the text, or even the chapter or verse where they could be found ; but one Sabbath he ran home in hot haste, informed his wife that he could repeat every word, without missing a syllable. "1 he words were as follows : "An angel came down from heav en and took a live coal from the al ter." "Know every word," replied the husband. "I am anxious to hear it," contin ued she. "They are nice words " observed the husband. "I am glad your memory is im proving ; but don t Keep me in sus pense, my dear," said she. Just get the big Bible, and 1 will say the words, for I know them by heart, I said them a hundred times on my way home." MVIVI1 k .rv. "Ahem I" said he. clearing his throat "An Injun came down from New Haven and took a live colt by the tail and jerked him out of the halter." The memery of one-half who at tend church is very similar to the above. What is best to buy for a rise ? Why, yeast or gunpowder, or a pair of double-soled boots for the old gentleman who objects to your at tentions to bis daughter. Good temper, like a sunny day. sheds a brigntnes s over even thinx. Tl WHOLE NO. 15 lb. TheTim o Day. The gallant Irish soldier, General Bligh, of Sepoy fame, while holding the commission of captain in a dashing marching regiment, was on a trip of pleasure, with his wife, in the north of England, and having come one day to a small Yorkshire inn, the larder of which was well nigh empty, he ordered all the host had on hand in the shape of food, to be served up for his dinner, after which he joined his wife in an up per room. While the host was preparing t!e meal for his guest a party of sport ing gentlemen of the country enter ed the inn, and called for refresh ments. The landlord was sorry to inform them that all his larder con tained of food had been bespoken by a gentleman who was at that moment up staire with his wifo to have it served. Who was the gentleman? Tho host could only tell tlictn that he was an Irishman, and seem ed to be a very quiet, good-natured harmless body. (The Captain was traveling in citizen's clothe?.) "An Irish gentleman ! A potato with pepper and salt, will an.?wer for him. Go up and tell him so." But Boniface preferred not t do se. "Then," cried one of the party- a 'squire of the neighborhood, with more money than sense "take up this watch to the gentleman, and ask him if he will send us word what's the time 'o day, for wc can't tell." It was a "habit in that section. when one would intimate to another that he didn't have mnch faith in his good, sense, or in his judgment, to show him a watch and ask him to tell what's the time o'clock?" The heat, himself fond of fun. and feeling assured that the last callers would get the worst of it, took the watch a very valuable gold repeater and went up stairs and did the errand. Blight took the watch and looked at It. "By my lite ! its a beautv. Tell the gentleman I'll be down present ly, and shall take great pleas ure in expounding to them the mystry o' time-telling by the watch, and 111 fetch the watch with me." The host returned with the an swer, and shortly afterwards earned up his guest's dinner. TIip Vjuire was for a little tune fun"ts with the i n-ie i - , ..I lanuioru ior naving leit nis watctt iiui'l burst the door open. behind ; but he finally cooled ofT. I In the middle of the room stood and having called for a a!!.'n of; the woman, dressed only in a iliin beer, he sat down with Ms friends to wait. After he had finished Lis meal, Captain Bligh opened hi3 portman - tcau and took out two large horse pistols, and placing them under hie arm, he toox the watch in his hand and went down into the barroom, where the sporting gentry still wait - ed "Ah, gentlemen, I give vou a good lav. And now who is the man that wants the time o'day ? I shall be delighted to enlighten him."' lhev did not like the looks of the man at all. He carried the soldier in his every look : and just now there was a good deal of the tiger manifest "Come, come, gentlemen I am Captain Bligh, at your service. A short time since, the landlord brought to me this watch, accom panied by a message which I have come to answer as such a message richly deserves." And he signifi cantly tapped his finger upon the ustols. Now whose is the watch? I? it vours. sir?" to the 'squire himself. The 'squire denied the ownership promptly. All the watches in the world would not have temnted him to expose his life to the terrible Irish captain whose fame was known to him. Bligh then applied to the next man, and then to the next, and so on to the next, and all denied the ownership. 1 am happy to hnd, gentlemen, have made a mistake. You will pardon me. I am sure. I thought the owner of the watch was here." He then put the watch into his pocket, slipped the pistols into the pockets of his blouse, turned to the bar,-and settled his bill, then bade the company good evening, after which he joined his wife on the porch, at the door of which his car riage was in waiting. Captain, afterwards General Bligh, kept the watch to the day of his death, often telling the story of its capture, when he left it by will to his brother, the well known dean of Elphin. Hints) About Sleeping Room. Many persons complain of always getting Up tired in the morning. This is very often due to defective ventilation of the bed-room, or from using an undue amount ot warm L - 1 ,lil . 1 I .K I, . , i . j , beds arc too soft and yielding, and! partially envelop the sleeper, thus producing profuse perspiration. The habit of lying too much under blankets is also very pernicious by reason of the carbonic acid thrown off by the sleeper being respired. Again it is a common error to sup- Sose that by simply opening a win ow a liltle at the top a room can be ventilated. People forget that for proper ventilation there must be an inlet and an outlet for the air. In bed rooms there is often neither, and if there is a fire place it is a common j error to suppose that foul air goes to the top of the room. Certainly heated air goes to the top, but the chief impurity, the carbonic acid, falls to the bottom. There is noth ing so efficacious in removing the lower strata of air as the ordinary open fire-place, especially if there is a fire burning. No method of venti lation has yet been discovered half so efficacious. A Cros Baby. Nothimr is so conducive to a man s remaining a bachelor as stopping for one night at the house of a married friend andjbeing kept a wake for five or six hours by the crying of a cross baby. All cross and crying babies need only Hop Bitters to make them well and smiling. Young man re- memborthis. Ttaveler. , - Xailol up in a Houmc. On the border of the Flushing Meadows, in Ixmg Island, in a bleak ; sjvot wpst of the village, noar Ire ! land Milht, U the old Texido man t siou, formcrly'the residence of tin: '.Lite Cart.tin "Manm.l Texido. On Lis death the liou'c was sold, it 1 jKMacd into tLe hand. of Senator, ! now Chief Justice Princf, of New Mexico, who now owns the farm. He sold the house to a Mi4 Clark son. The house, a few months ago, was let to a Mrs. Allen, from New York. Sbo represented herself to be the sister-in-law of a prominent olUcial of the last State Government. She waa very gr?atly interested in religious mat?' r. She said she had a brother v. '..o is a clergyman of the Episcopal Church in "the western part of the State. About a month ago Mrs. Allen, who had another woman living with her, moved to New York. Before going, Mrs. Al len asked a lady here if was safe to leave the premises without anv oc cupant. When told that it might not be safe, she said : "Well, I've got a competent per son to live there in my absence." , Miss Clarkson, who did not know of Mrs. Allen's removal, recently went to collect tl.f rcr.ttluc Hrr summons at the dour received no re sponse until it was vigorously re peated. Then a window was open ed, and a woman's head was thrust out. The woman looked wild, and her hair was dishevelled. She im mediately began chattering to Miss Clarkson. She said she had r.ot s?en Mrs. Allen, and was starving. Miss Clarkson, not knowing what else to do, tame back to the village for aa.iirtunce. She called upon a lady friend, who returned with her to the old mansion. They took a loaf of bread with them. On their knocking at the door they saw the head thrust out of the window. The woman made a heart-rending ap peal for something to eat. The two ladies procured a rail from a fence in an adjoining field, and sticking the loaf on the end, held the Lread up to the famished woman. She showed the greatest anxiety to se cure the food. No sooner did she get it in her hands than she began ravenously to devour it. Then she begged for-water, saying that a dog that she had with her for company wa3 also famished. The ladies got a piece of cord and threw it to the woman, who by it let down a pail. The ladies filled the pail with water and the woman drew it UP- . Still they were unaole to get into the house, and once more they re turned to the village and called upon a Justice, who referred them to County Superintendent of the Poor Sullivan. lie with the ladies, returned to the mansion. Mr. Sul livan tried to get in by a window, but it was firmly secured. He then crawled through the cellar and work ed his way up stairs to the room where the woman was. lie fonnd the door not only locked but nailed up with boards, and the handle was tied with a rope to the handle of another door across tho hall. Mr. Sullivan tore awav these obstacles . . ... . : cotton skirt and a j'ackct of similar stuff. Under her arms was the re- mains of the loaf, and a dog. bark- 1 ing and snarling at the intruder?, ! was at her Fide. The onlv articles ' in the room were a pile of meadow i grass in one corner, oa which lay a ! piece of covering four feet smiare. : and a pail. There was no stove. How the woman lived through the recently very cold weather it is hard telling. Mr. Sullivan and the ladies ques tioned her, but all that she would say was that Mrs. Allen had been very kind to her. She said she had some property at Ixcust Valley, L. I., and had been so importuned by Mrs. Allen that she finally as signed it to hcr, the deed being on record in the County Clerk's otliee in Jamaica. The woman hail been confined for over a month. She looked like a living skeleton. It was learned that she had a sister in locust Valley, and after being cared for she was sent there bv S upenn- tendent Sulliyan. A Weird Visitor. I was terribly frightened one night in Queensland by a dead man rid ing up to my camp fire at midnight. I wa quite alone. I heard my horse neighing and another answer ing in the Malgas bushes, so I got up and put wood on, making a bright blaze and presently into the circle of light came a horseman, bending oyer his pommel, with his large straw hat slouched over his eyes. I took my revolver off my saddle and sung out. "Good night, mate! You travel late. Will vou have a drink of tea?" Not a word of answer. Just then my two dogs, who were sniflling about, set up such a terrible cry. it made me jump again. After a bit I began to open my eyes to the state of affairs and mustered courage enough to walk up to the horse and take hold of the reins. While do ing so I touched the rider s hands, which were cold as ice. I tried to get him off the saddle, but it was of no use. Jriis legs were out of the irons and wound tightly around the mare. I had to cut the reins from the grip of his fingers. I packed him on the horse when sunrise came and led him into Tambo. where I found he wa3 well known as a digger. He had set out thence that morning after drinking nearly , . . - a bottle of brandv to go to a place distance above forty miles, ami I was only twelve miles from the township when he paid his illtimed visit There wa3 no doctor within 2U0 miles at that time. Howevtr. they held an inquest, as which the P. 5f. talked learnedly of muscular contraction and sunstroke, and was puzzled to decide whether the bran dy had anything to do with it, s he could swear from his own expe rience, that the liquor was first-class He praised me more than I deserv. ed, for J had half a r.iind to run away. When I on camped out, even now, alone, strange thoughts of that nocturnal horseman come into my head. If any one had told such a story to me I should hardly have credited it I mean that a man should stick to a horse in that way without any other help his saddle straps afforded. His little mare was very quiet, though, and was evi dently attracted by the sound of my horsebells. She certainly had a pretty foot, but after all, it didn't make half so much impression on him as the old man's. What the country most needs r.ow is some snow. SfcSubBcribe for the Hebalp. i
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