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Quarter Col. an 0"
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All bills for vcarly advertisements col
lected quarterly. Temporary advertise
ments must be paid for in advance.
Job work, Cash on Delivery.
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TERMS, 2.00 A YEAU.
No Shihscriptions received for a shorter
pwk)d than throe months.
Corrcspondcico solicited from nil parts
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niinonyniouj communication.
, BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
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VOL. VI. NO. 15.
TIONESTA, PA., JULY 10. 1873.
2 PER ANNUM.
TTONF.STA LODGE
iiT Xo. 3(i'J,
r I. O. of O. F.
MEETS every -Friday ovenlnir, nt 8
o'clock, In the Hall formerly occupied
by tlia Good Templars.
S. II. HASLET, N. O.
J. T. DALE, Soc'y. 27-tf.
Samuel D. Irwin,
ATTORNEY, COUNSELLOR AT LAW
ml It I" A L ESTATE AUKNT. Leiral
uslngwWbmptiv attondod to. Tionesta,
i'a. 4'-iy.
. whwtoh rums. milks w. tats.
PETTIS & TATE,
. ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Atm Wi-erf, TIONESTA, rA.
g, W. Mmoii,
Georg. A. Joti,
Mason, & Jenki,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Ofllee on Elm
Street, nbove Walnut, Tionesta, Pa.
F.W.H.iys,
ATTORNEY AT LAW. and Notary
Pviilic, Rovnolds Ilukill A. Co.'s
Rlock, Soneoa St.", Oil City, I'a. 30-ly
r. KINNKAIt. tf. B. SMILUV.
- X 1XSEA It .C SMILEY,
Attorneys at Law, - - - Franklin, Pa.
I PRACTICE in tho several Courts of Ve
nango, Crawford, Forest, and adjoin
ing eountis. , !t'.l-ly,
R. HAniUS, D. D, FASSBTT,
HARMS J FA&SETT, ;
ttorneya at Uw, TituBvllle Penn'a.
PRACTICE in all the Courts of TVurren,
Crawford, Forest and Venango Coun
tfee. 49-tf
rnYsicfAxSiQ surgeoxs.
J.WINA58,KD.,nia J. E.BLAINE,M. D.
Wsyinif entered Into a co-partnership, nil
sails, night or day, will receive immediate
Keution. .Omeo at residence of lr. Wl
ans, Kim St., Tionesta, I'a. Sd-ly
Clarlea B. Ansart,
DENTUT, Centre Street, Oil City, Pa.
In Simons' Block.
Lawrence House,
"ITTM. L AW R EN C K, V no rp.i KTon. Th is
W house has .fust been opened to the
finbllo and ( lie furniture ami nttiiiRS are
all new. Guests will be well ontertninod
at reaaonoblo rate. Is situated nn Em"Nt.,
apposite Superior Lumber Co. Store. SU-ly
. Tione3ta House.
ft C ITT EL, Vropriotor, Elm St. Tio-
iVL. nnsta. la.. at the mouth of lh creek.
Mr. bas thoroughly renovated the
1 111 ita House, and re-furnished it com
'"lately. -All who patronize him will be
Well entertained at reasonable rates. 20 ly
FOREST HOUSE,
D BLACK VROPRIETOR. Opposite
Court House, Tionesta, Pa. Just
levelled. Everything new and clean and
fresh. The best of liquors kept constantly
on hand. A portion of tho public pntnm
sa is respectfully solicited. 4-17-lv
National Hotel,
rpmiOUTE, PA., Rent. Elliott, proprle
-1 tor. This house has been nowlv turn'
ihed and In kept in (rood style. Quo.it
win tie raauo oouitortaoie ncro ut reaMiua
bio rates. 9 ly,
Scott House,
PAOCNDVS, PA., E. A. Roberts, Pro-
X- prietor. This hotel has boon recently
re-famished and now oilers superior uC'
oininodauoot to gliosis. ia-ly.
1 Dr. J. L. Acomb,'
PHYSICIAN AND SURG EON, wlio has
had fifteen years' experience in a lure
'MKl auoeesstui praeiiuo, win aitona an
uft'lional Calls. OtHco In his Drnyr anil
JroeerT Ktoio, located in -Tidioute, near
TidJoute "llouso.
IN HIS STORE WILL DE FOUND
A tl assortment of Medicines. Limiors
Tobsooo, Cigars, SUtiouery, Glass, l'ttints,
50i!s, Cutlery, all of the bent quality, and
will bo sold at reasonable rates.
DR. CHAM. O. DAY, an experienced
Fbysioian and Drusritst from New York,
has charge of tho tilore. All prescriptions
put up accurately.
f. a. MAT.
JXO. r FiftK.
i S. KULLY
MAY, PARK CO.,
BANKERS,
Oerasr of Elra'.ft Walnut i. Tionesta.
Bank of Diaeoaut and Deposit.
Iaterest allowed on Time Deposits.
stfelleetlens made on all the Prinoipal points
of the U. 8.
Collections soiieited.
18-ly.
A. BiLS, Ilia. J. T. DALE, CubUr.
TIOInTIHST-A-SAVINGS
BANK,
Tionesta, Forest Co., I'a.
This Bank transacki a General Banking,
Xlollsoiing and Exchange Uusiness. v
Drafla on the Principal Cities of tli
Hatted States and Eurone bnuiclttaud sohl
Gold and Silver Coin and Government
Securities bought and sold. 7-30 lionds
converted on tne most lavoraoie terms.
Interest allowed ou time deposits.
Mr. 4, tf.
J. B. LONG,
f ANUFACTURER of and Dealer in
' HARNESS, SADDLES, WHIPS, ROBES,
CURRY COMBS, BRUSHES,
- HORSE CLOTHING,
and everything In the line. In Bonner A
Aruew's Hlock, udjoiniug Drug Store.
D. W. CLARK,
COMMtSSIONKH'S CI.EKK, FORKKT CO., r,.)
MEAL ESTATE AGEKT.
HOUSES and Lots for Sale and RENHP
Wild Iands for Snlo. 1 .
I have sunerlor facilities for ascertalnlnir
the condition of tuxes and tax deeds, &:.,
and am thorefore qnnlitled to not into li
nentlyas R'ieTit of tliose living nt a dis
tance, owning lanil in the comity.
Ollicc in Commissioners Room. Court
House, Tionesta, l'n.
4-41-ly. D. W. C LARK.
Xew Itonrding House
MRS. S. R. HULINOS has built n lnrf?o
ndriilion to her house, nnd is now pre
pared to iiceommodnten number of perma
nent boarders, and nil transient ones who
uav favor her with their natronairo. A
ond stable has recently been built to ac
commodate the horses of guests. Charges
reasonable, Resiilonco on Elm St., oppo
site S. Haslet's store. 2:j-ly
CENTRE STREET, OIL CITY, I'A.,
BOOKS,
STATIONERY,
FANCY GOODS,
TWITES,
TOYS, INKS,
VUOI,i:Al.i; AND HCTAII..
Bcoks, Newspapers ni Magazines
' MAILED TO ANY ADDRESS
At publishers rales.
.10-1 v
IsTEJW
GROCERY AND PROVISION STORE
IN TI OX EST A.
GEO. W.BOVARD&GO.
If
'WE lust brought on a complete and
caretullv sviccieu slocK 01
FLOUR,
GROCERIES,
l'ROVISIONS,
and rvcrytliiiifr necessary to tho coinplctu
stock otalirsi-clsissiirocory llpuse, winch
they have opened nut nt ihoir eslulilish
nieiit on Elm St., first door north of M, E.
Church.
TEAS.
COFFEES, SUGARS,
BYKUPS, FRUITS,
SPICES,
HAMS, LARD,
a ni run visioxs or a ll kinds,
at tho lowest cash prices. Goods warrant
ed to ho of tiio bet quality. Call and ex
amine, und wo believe we can sujt von.
GEO. W. BOVAKD & CO.
Jan.!), '7i
tONFECTIONARIE
S.
IAGNEW, nt the Post Office, has
J. opened out a choice lot of
GROCERIES,
C0NFECTJ0NA RIES,
CANNED FRVITS,
10BACC0S,
CIGARS, AND
NOTIONS OF ALL KINDS.
A portion of tho patronage of tho public
is resspeetiully solicited,
44-tf L. AGNEW.
NEBHASKA GRIST MILL.
THE GRIST MILL at Nebraska (Lucy
town,) Forest county, has been thor
oughly overhauled and retittod in tii'ht
clnss onlcr, and is now running aud doing
all kinds of
CUSTOM Gitnui.,
FLOUR,
FEED, AND OATS,
Constantly on hand, and sold at the very
lowest ligures,
43 oui II. W. LEDEBUR.
LOTS FOR SALE!
IN THE
BOROUGH OF TIONESTA.
Apply to GEO. G. SICKLES,
79, Nassau St., New York City.
Trie Republican Office
T"EEPS constantly on hand a larce as
IV sortiueiit of Blank Dttuds, Mortuuues.
Bubprcnas, Warrants, Uuniuittiis, Vc. to
oe sum cuvup lor cash, ll.
AM U VI. IXTIil.I.IGF.X I).
A gentleman who resides in tho
suburbs of this city has a neighbor who
maintaiin, to the annoyanco of his
friends, an irrepressible whiflbt dog.
Tliis dog not only receives daily the
verbal cxecratiffn of tho vicinity, but
is mudo the target of sundry more tan
gible missiles. As the dog objects to
any person entering any houso within
sight, ami takes tho range of nil the
lawns, it is not to bo wondered at that
people hurl at hint whatever missile
may first enrao to hand. It is remark
able, however that nouo of these hand
grenades over happen to hit thoir ob
joct ; and it is" not surprising, under
tho circumstances, that tho dog recog-
uizes nobody as "Sir Oracle," but harks
on in perfect impunity.
It so happened, a few days eince,
that a strange dog, on a rccotinoiter
ing tour, appeared upon tho scene.
Tho gentleman's family, conceiving
that any more dogs, under tho circum
stances, were superiluous, drove out the
new intruder, lie escaped to the
street with tail depressed and head
down, evideutly demoralized. The
first-mentioned dog nuisanco saw the
situation at once, immsuiutely repaired
to iho street, and commenced a confer
enuca with tho faint-hearted stranger.
Soon tho tail was lifted and tho head
was erect. Tho two dogs rullicd, form
ed iu line, and, trotting defiantly back
to the place whence the strange dog
had been ejected, charged boldly and
vociferously at the porch where a mem
ber of tho family was still standing.
It was too much. Tho assailants were
welcomed with screams of laughter
which the family could not repress,
and the dogs, feeling that they had on
ly mndo themselves ridiculous, sneak
ed off, evidently ashamed of them
selves. This little incident may be classed
among trifles. l)ut such trifles are of
the class of things which, as tho man
in the comedy says, "no fellow can
find out." Men can decipher and in
terpret the inscriptions on the remaius
of 2s ineveh, and reconstruct a language
from them, but nobody can explain
how animals communicate their ideas
to each other. And yet they obvious
ly do, for they act in concert, after re
ceiving information from each other.
And it is not ouly tho larger animals
who do this, but insects. Tho beetle,
dignified with the name of "sacred,"
from its appearance in Egyptian hie
roglyphic symbols, shows tho same
wouderiul sagacity torilay that it did
when Moses Moated in the J lie, though
its modern name is less stately. The
creature envelops Us egg m a ball
about the size of a walnut, and rolls
the ball to m place of securi
ty. Ibis id arduous woric aud is
equal to mauy a human piece of en
gineering. A recent writer ou natu
ral history gives his observations upon
a feat performed by these insects,
which we can readily believe, having
observed the like. A ball in tho pro
gress of removal fell into a hole, i'rom
winch the beetle in charge of trans
portation could not raise it. Tho in
sect disappeared and in a few momenta
returned with a working party of three
or four, who eoon relieved the "master
of transportation" of his dilemma.- Tho
ball was lifted out, the laboring beetle
went on her wpy, keeping it rolling,
aud the others separated to return to
their occupations, whatever they were.
Tho writer of this article once watch
ed a party of wasps, who, in dragging
the carcass ot a large insect, had to
cross a railroad. Ihey cot over one
ruil easy enough, from the outside but
to get over tho next puzzled them.
Tho perpeudicular iron was a serious
difficulty, but the smooth corner of tho
tuee of tho rail was worse. After many
ineffectual attempts, scouting parties
were sent out, and iu a few moments
the "base was changed," tho carcass
was dragged along to a practicable
crossing, and tho party, plunder and
all, got safely over, just before a train
came thundering along.
A irood lady, who xared nothinsr
about the insect world1, except as to tho
means ot exterminating the trouble-
seme little enemies who devastated her
store-room, pronounced tho conversa
tion ot two naturalists as "disgusting.
She Baid they did nothing at all the
"whole livelong eveuing but talk about
beetles and bugs aud such nasty
things." Perhaps the general popular
feeling is not essentially different from
that of the pattern housekeeper, though
not so bluntly expressed. Yet the
study of the wonderful works of these
despised creatures, and the results of
the performance ef their functions in
the places assigned to them, at once
elevate our reverence for the power
and wudora of the Creator, and show
what great events on the earth and its
innabitants may grow from the opera
tions of an insect. Islands have had
their beginning in coral reefs, and a
naturalist remarks that the shore lino
of a continent may date its change
from the creeping of a periwinkle, over
ji rock. t'hihi. Lohjtr,
i.H A K (.HI;EVKH CRITH'IKEMfcl MAN
JJ, ANTllONY'HCA.Si:.
It isn't necessary to endorse the doc
trines of Graco Greenwood in order to
enjoy her letters ; and tho narrow
minded man who fails to read them
because he doesn't beliovo in woman
suffrage or the possibility of discover
ing the North pole, is merely punish
ing himself. In somo late "Washing
ton Notos" she discusses tho case of
Mis Anthony with great good humor
and yet with much force. "The ark."
she says, "of the holy political cove
nant resting here tho sacred mules
that draw it being stabled in the capi
tol for half a year at a. time the wo
man who laid unsauctified hands upon
it, is naturally regarded with peculiar
horror." "Iticrtainly," she says again,
"do not want to get into your political
preserves by any quibble or dodge. I
want my right there freely granted
and guaranteed, and will be politely
treated when I come, or I wou t stay.
The promised land of justice and equal
ity is not to be reached by a shortcut.
I fear wo have a large part of (he forty
years of struggle and zigzaging before
us yet. I am pretty sure that our
Moses has not appeared. I think ho
will bo a woman. Sho notes the fact
that Judge Hunt peremptorily ordered
the jury to bring the defendent in guil
ty, and sho says :
Now, could not twelve honest, intel
ligent jurymen bo trusted to defend
their birthright against one woman?
Why such zeal, such mote than Roman
sternness? Again in the train of the
inspectors of elections, why were both
judge aud jurymen so merciful ? No
verdict of guilty was ordered, and the
council of twelve who had seen fit to
punish Miss Anthony by a fiueof $100
ani costs, merely mulcted in the mod
est sum of twenty-live dollars each de
fenceless defendant sinning against
light. Was it that they considered in
their manly clemency the fact that
women have superior facilities for
earning money; or, did they give keed
to the old, old excuse, "The woman
tempted me, and I did register?" Jt
surely is strange that such severe pen
alties should be visited on the woman,
for a first and only indiscretion in the
suffrage line, when a man may rise up
ou election morning and go forth, vot
ing and to vote. If he be of an excit
ablo and mercurial nature, one of the
sort of citizens which sweet Ireland
empties on U3 by the county, ho may
sportively flit about r.moug the polls,
from ward to ward ef the metropolis,
and no man eay him nay, lie may even
travel hilariously from citv to city
with free passes aud free drinks who
treats Miss Anthony ? making festive
calls, and dropping ballots for? cards,
and no disturbance comes of it ho is
neither fined nor confined. So, it would
seem "a little voting is. a dangerous
thing. buy what you will, the whole
question of woman's status in the state
and the church, in society and in tho
tamily, is li;l ot absurd contradic
tions und monstrous unom.nlies. We
aro so responsible, yet irrespon
sible we are idols, wo are idiots
wo are everything, wo are noth
ing. Wo aro the caryatides, bear
ing up .ho tho entabhituro of the
temple of liberty we ate nevj'r allowed
to euter. We may plotagainsta gov
ernment and hang for it : but if we
"help to found and sustain a govern
ment by patriotic ellort aud devotion,
by toil and hardsain, by courage, loy
alty and faith ; by the sacrifice of those
nearest and dearest to us; aud then
venture ts clutch at the crumbs that
fall freni tho table where our Masters
Jonathan, l'utrick, Hans and Sambo
sit at the feast, you arrest us, imprison
us, try us, and then add insult to insult
by calling us old, ugly aud fanatical.
And sho defends Miss Anthony per
sonally: If anything can make mo think
meanly of my young brothers ef the
press, it is the way they pelt and pes
ter Susan 15. Anthony. For shame,
boys 1 Never a one of yeu will make
tho man sho is. Even some of cur
Washington editors turn aside from
the fuir game Providence, in its in
scrutable wisdom, has provided for
them in the Board of Public Works,
to vont their virtuous indignation aud
manly scorn of the woman they are
determined shall stand in perpetual
pillory in the market place of this
great, free Republic.
For herself, and indeed for a good
many others, sho is hopeful :
I hope I am not given to boasting,
but I venture to say that, given the
franchise given a million or two dol
lars troops of political friends, of the
sort whose devotion is not measured by
scruples, out by drams given, above
all, a pliant and unprejudiced Legis
lature, aud somo flue morning, I will
walk into the United States Senate
aud present my credentials with a can
did and a Kansas air. I think I shall
prefer a seat by that good woman's
rights man, Mr. Frclinghuysen. He
is aristocratic, but ho is evangelical.
I will vote with Buckingham, und will
listen with Abijah Gilbert; and if, at
anytime,! shall not be good, they
may take me and shake me, and Bet me
down hard by Borry or Brownlow.
We don't believe there has been a
picier Washington letter, nnd it was
written in the dull season, too.
STOCK H.WSINIJ IN NEBRASKA.
BY rilOF. J. V. LCTLElt.
Lincoln, Nebraska, 1873.
About the 20lh of March. I took
the train from hero for Chicago, 542
miles. .Leaving this city at two on one
afternoon, I should ordinarily have
reached that Queen of the Great Lakes
at three o'clock on tho next afternoon.
But on arriving at the Missouri I
found it impossible to cross, for accor
ding to the local phrase it was "gorged
...iiK;nn h.,... !J
nihil ivc a u wtio Ma ii u glacier niiu
rushed down from an Alpine ravine
and blocked up the track along a Swiss
valley. Such an iceberg had not been
seen there before during this season,
and it wa3 next day swept dewn the
river.
Mcantimo, however, several cars
filled -with cattle and hogs for Chicago
were sent back To miles to Ashland to
spend the night in the yard where they
nai been Kept through tho winter. 1
went with them in order to inspect the
Nebraska stylo cf stock fattening.
One yard I visited is on a neck of
land between two rivers, one fresh and
one salt, so that no salt is needed for
the stock. The only shelter was a
close, fence four feet high on one Bide,
and hay cribs oa another, which broke
the force of the wind. Though the
winter had been tho severest ever
known, the cattle were in good condi
tion, and none of them had died. They
had no covering whatever overhead.
Tho food of the stock was mainly
Indian cern, each ear cut into three
pieces, and shoveled from a wagon in
to huge troughs scattered here and
there in tho yard. Wild hay in the
side cribs was always within reach and
some of tho corn, cobs and all, was
ground in a horse mill iuto coarse
meal.
Tho hay cost only tho cutting, being
tree on what in .Lngland would be
called "commons." The corn was part
ly raised closo at hand, ninety bushels
and upward on a single acre and
partly bought at 15 cents a bushel.
The cattle were Texas had been
driven last year 1,200 miles from the
far southwest. 1 he first cost was 812
per head and G more for driving to
the yard. Five dollars more will pay
passage to Chicago. Tho last lot of a
hundred sent from this yard sold for
four and a half cents, or moro than
fifty dollars for each beef.
No business is growing faster in Ne
braska than stock-raising. None will
pay better. Indian corn is too bulky
tor distant transport. It needs a con
denser. What it needs it finds iu oat-
tlo aud hogs, llog-skin and cowhide
make tho best bags bags that hold
ten times moro than canvus bags of the
same size.
Ashland is a new town on tho "Bur
lington Route" from fho Mississippi te
Fort Kearney, and twenty-five miles
west ot I'lattsmoutli. Iu that land
district over 25,000 homesteaders and
pre
IJn
re-emptors have filed claims at the
nited States cilice in Lincoln, and
about 30,000 have bought B. '& M.
Railroad land an ten years' credit and
six per cent, interest. Ou land conr
tracts since 1872 nothing of the prin
cipal is.payablo till the end of four
years. .
1.1 .MUi:itl; tWTUAUUOINARY.
Tho Eagle, printed at Grand Rap
ids, Michigan, learns from Mr. Cook,
of the firm of Pardee, Cook & Co., one
of the heaviest lumbering firms on the
continent, who has an office in that
city, that an offshoot of that firm, io be
known as Pardee, Cook & Blanehard,
propose to try an experiment, which
will uudoubtedly bo watched with
much interest by nil lumbermen.
An extensive dock frontago on the
Calumet river, in tne subuibs of Chi
cago, has been purchased, ou which a
mill is to bo built, which, when com
pleted, will havo a lawing capacity of
2O,00U,00O feet of lumber per year.
This mill is to be furnished with logs
cut ou the Great Suubla river, in Mich
igan. The firm or firms directly and
indirectly interested iu the project own
32,000 acres of pine lauds on that riv
er, on which it is thought from 250,
000,000 to 300,000,000 feet of good
pine is standing, aud perhaps moro.
These logs are to be raitod to Chicago,
or to the mill on the Calumet, drawn
by tugs. The rafting will be done in
the summer time, beginning in May
and ulosiog about the first of Septem
ber. Messrs. Pardee, Cook & Blanehard
aro confident, notwithstanding tho dis
asters that have befallen all attempts
to raft lumber and square timber here
tofore, that they will have no trcublo
in floating logs. One hint in connec
tion with this scheme Old Frob. will
furnish them, as ho does all mankind,
with hints of approaching storms, and
their experiment will not be so purelv
a matter of chance as has been the case
in times past in similar efforts.
lhev anticipate handsome profits
from their venture. It is believed tho
towago will not be more expensive than
the freights on lumber; perhaps not so
much.
The slabs and edgings, technically
tho "off haul," which at Muskegon,
Grand Haven and other lumbering
points on tho western shores, are al
most worthless, aro in demand in Chi
cago, and it is thought will sell for
enough nearly or quite to pay for the
sawing of tho lumber, an item of sefne
magnitude, as lumbermen will agree.
And tfeey will be able to devote their
attention to "bill stuff," and will thus
cut their logs to the best possible ad
vantage and will save ths waste of the
saw kerf to a great extent.
THE WAY NH'Ii IlOWKItN WAS CAUGHT.
Nick Bowers was a member of the
original Christy Minstrels, and, in his
day, was the greatest "middle man in
terrogator" known in tho profession.
Nick used to tell, with great merri
ment, an incident of his boyhood. To
preserve the flavor of the relation, wo
will record it in Nick's own language,
and ouly regret that we can not ac
company it with his inimitable gestic
ulation :
"My old man," said Nick, "as a gen
eral thing, was a pretty steady old
gent, but once iu a while he would get
oblivious, und water was not the causo
of it. I recollect a certain holiday was
approaching, and I had been skinning
around to get a littlo money to have a
time with on that day ; but tho fates
and purses were against me. It was
but two days prior to the anticipated
holiday, and I hadn't nary a red. Re
member this), boys, when I add that on
the same afternoon I came into tho
house, when lol there on the floor, to
tally overcome by his libations, lay my
respected daddy, and beside him lay
six shining half-dollars, which had
rolled from his pocket. Boys, I'vo
been an honest man all my life, but
once, when I was a boy, I committed
a theft. I hooked one of those half
dollars. Thinks I to myself, the old
man's boon on a jamboree, and won't
know how much h9 spent, and will
never miss it. But mark you, the next
morning I and my two brothers were
sunimoued into our father's presence.
The old man's face lowered. I thought
of tho half-dollar and knew that a
storm was brewing.
"Boys," he said, "last night when I
came homo I had six half-dollars. Ono
of 'em's gone. Your mother didn't
take it. There's been no ono elso in
tho houso. Which oue of you took it?"
Wo all protested our innocence.
"Boys," said the old man, "that
half-dollar never walked off, and I'm
going to find out which one of you took
it." '
Turning around, ho took down from
tho wall an old Hint-lock blunderbuss.
This he deliberately loaded with pow
dcr nnd buckshot in our pretence;
then fastened it upon tho table, and
cocked it, took a seat behind it, hold
ing the string in his hand, and in sol
emn tones addressed us thusly:
"Boys, I'm going to discover the
thief aud punish him at tho same time.
You must each of you blow into tho
muzzle of that gun. When the guilty
one blows, oil" goes his head. Now
then, you have a chance ; will you own
up or blow up ?"
"Bon," said tho old man to my old
est brother, "have you got that half
dollar?" "No, sir."
"Take a blow."
Ben did so in safety.
"Nick," (eh, boys, I tell you thi
chills began to crawl dowa my back)
"got that half-dollar?"
"No, sir," said I with a defiaut swagger-
"Blow in that gun."
I walked up bravely, gave a blow '
dodged 1
"Nick !" said the eld man in a veico
ofthuuder, "where is that half-dollar?"
lie hail mo. Tho truth dodged aut
of me. Said 1, "Out in the barn, pap."
We havo received a letter from a
female cousin now going to school at
Vassar College, and as the epistle con
tains information of a startling char
acter it is thought beat to publish part
of it. After a request tq send her
down a box of soft slata-pencils and
gum-drops to eat, she says: "We do
have such fun here. All the girls are
mado to participate iu cut-door exer
cises, and wo row ou the, lake, ride
horseback, turn handsprings, run foot
race, aud have heaps of fun. Belle
Hastings climbs a thirty-foot smooth
polo in two minutes. Nell Vivian (you
remember her) can turn a handspring
and not mako a wriuklo in her 'dress.
I put a beautiful head on Mary Dodga
yesterday in the boxing-room." St.
Jsouit JJtuwi fu.