rilBlnnF.D EVEflT WKDSESDAY. BY v. n. DUNN. TTiCni tlf BOBTKflOTf a. bohkeh'b btjtldiko, ELK BTREET, T10HCSTA, PA. ' TERMS, f2.00 A YEAR. We subscriptions rpi-olved for a shorter period Uuin three month. Correspondence solicited from U parts fine country. No notlro will be taken of annonymoue communications. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. TIOHESTA LODGE SS tfvMT. O. of O. F. MEETS over Friday evening, at 7 o'clock. In the Hall formerly oocuplod by the Uood Templars. J Ad. WOODINOTOX, X. O. A. B. KELLY, Sec' y. 27-tf. Samuel D. Irwin, ATTORNEY, COUNSELLOR AT LAW and URAL ESTATE AGENT. Legal tmalasae promptly attended to. Tionesta, . inimi rams. miM w. tatb. PKTTU A TATI, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ttm rf, TT02TKSTA. PA. w.w. (torn A. Jnka, Mason. A Jenks, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Omee en Elm treat, ebote Walnut, Tloneata, Ta. T. W. Hays, ATTrfltMBY AT LAW. and Notary Pcaue, Rovnolds Huklll A Co. 'a Blosk, Bsneoa HU, Oil City, Pa. W-ly . K1!I(AK. v. B. smilst. KtirifEAX SMILE r$ . AHwnaeya at Law, ... Franklin, Pa. PRACTICE In the aereral Conrta of Ve aango, Crawford, Foreat, and adjoin ing eoantiea. 0-ly. K. MAaaia, p. . FAaanT, HARRIS A FASSETT, ( Mrner Law, TlknaTllle Penn'a. 3ACTICE In all the Conrta of Warren, Jt Craw tord, Koraat and Venango Coun- Mea. 4tf J. H. Helvly, . SCROEOX nKXTIST, In Schonblom'e Huildine-. Iwtwecn Centre and Syea aore HU Oil City, Pa. All operatlona done in a careful manner and warrantad. Chloroform and ether ad ainiaUred when'oqulred If theoaae will permit. 1-'.T , Charles B. Arvaart, i DEWTIST, Centre Street, Oil City, Pa. Ia iaaeaa' Bloes. ' Lawren.ee House, mrosMTA. PA- o. a. RUTTER 1 FIELD. Paoi".irro. Thla houa i eentrallT located. Everything new and wall furnUhed Superior .aeoommoda Mona and atriet attention Riven to gueata. Varatahlea and Fruita of all klnda eerved an their aeaaon. Sample room tor Com mercial Agents. ' FOREST HOUSE, DRLACK PROPRIETOR. Oppoalta Court HniiNe. Tloneata; Pa. Jut ned. Everythlnsi new and clean and frsh. The boat nf lifinora kept eonatantly n hand. A portion of the publio patron age la reaDet'trully nollcuca. -w-it Tloncsta House. T. LATIMER Lesaee. Kim St. Tlo. VI. neista. Pa., at the mouth of the creek. Mr.. I- ha thoroughly renovated the Tlonaata House, and re-fiirniahed It coin tlatelr. All who patronlre hlin will be wa 1 anterta nou at reaaonauie rate, ii it National Hotel, TIDIOUTE, PA., BoiJ. Elliott, proprie tor. This hoime has been newly furn iHhedandiH kept In (rood atyle. Uueata will be made oomfortablo here at reaaona- ble rates. -'. Dr. i. L. Aconb, fOMYSICIAN AND SURO EOX. who has A had tiftiteii years' experience In a large mart Biiocesatul praoiice, win aiienu an S'rofcssioiml Calls. Olllce In hla Irua; and Urooarv (Store, located In Tidioute, near Tldioute llouae. IX HIS STORE WILL BE FOUND A full aaaortinent of Medlcinea, Liquors ooacco, cigars, mationcrj, uww, .hiw. Oils, Cutlery, all of the beat quality, and will be aold at reasonable rates. DR. CI1AH. O. DAY, an experienced Phyalcian and OrugUt from New York, has charge of the Store. All prescription Ul ti accurately. a. a. aiT. la r. riit. . a.' tsixr. MA Y, VARK CO., BARKERS Corner of Elm" Walnut Sta. Tloneata. Rank of Discount and Deposit. Interest allowed on Time Deposits. Celleeeieasmadeonall the Principal polnta ertho,U.'S. Collections aoiioited. 18-ly KkW BILUARD ROOMS I DJOINI NO the Tionesta House, at the J. mouth of Tionesta Creek. The tablea nd room are new, and everything kept In order. To lovera of the itimt a cordial invitation is extended to come and play in the new room. 37 tf U.T. LATIMER, Lessee, D. "W; CLARK, (OMMl10N Ell'S CLKRK, FOREST CO., T.) XiEAL ESTATE AG EXT. 0C8ES and Ixts fotale and RENT Wld lanus lor (Sale, a.. I hnve superloV'lhi'llitles for aseertaining the condition or raxes ami tax cleeaa, o. 'and ant therefore rjuaiitled to act iiitf llt .ueiitly as aticnt of tlioan living at s dis taiice. owning lands tn the Vouiitv. Citlioe tn C'oininiskiouHis ltooin, dctart -U-ly. ' . V.. CLARK. VOL. VI. NO. 47. Dr. J. E. Blaine, OFFICE and rosldem opposite the Lawrence Home. Ollloedsys Wednos daya and Saturdays. - 30-tf. , Y . n.Jaf ITd. M4Al.ltuKnr1 at J m UP nun cohiijiiouvu m now and complete LIVERY STABLE In the liam In tho roar of the ljwrotiee House and la prepared to furnlth rigs of all klnda on short notice. Ordera left at tho Law rence House will receive prompt atten tion. s-iy. HIE BOOT & SHOE STORE OP TIX5IOTJTE1I NE. BTEVKXS. Proprietor. Fartles in want of FINK Boon and Hhoes will alwaya find a (rool asaortment atstevene . W lien you call, Jim saVrrom 1 lonesw and you will be liberally dealt with. FINE GROCERIES, . CHOICE CIGARS, TOBACCO, CAXNED FRUITS, STATIONERY, . v . AND NOTIONS, ; ' ' 1 ' ftir sale at J. B. Airnew's Store Room, In Bonner A Agnew's Block. ALSO, FRESH OYSTERS, by the can or served to order. 20 tf. Frank Robblus, PHOTOGRAPHER , (BCUCKSSOR TO DEMISVO.) Pictures in every atyleof the art. Vlewa of the oil region for sale er taken to or der. CENTRE STREET, near R, R. croeslng, SYCAMORE STREET, near Union De pot, oil City, fa. m-u LOTS FOR SALE I IX THE BOROUGH OF TIONESTA. - Apply toGKO. G.. SICKLES, ' 79, Nassau St., New York City. WM. F. BLUM. BLACKSMITH AXD , )W AGON-MAKER. Comer of Cliurch end Elm Streets, ' .. TIONESTA 3? A. Thla firm la nrcnared to do all work In lis line, and will warrant everything done at their shops to give satisfaction. , Par ticular attention given to IIORSISIIOFIXG, live them trial, and you will not re- gret It. 13-ly, PHOTOGRAPH. ALLERY. Water Street, OVER IIILBROXNF.R A CO.'s STORE, Tionesta, Pa., M. CARPENTER, - - - Proprietor. Pictures taken In all the latest styles the art. 28-U 1C. KLEIN, TiniouTr, Pa. Dealer in FissWatohaa, a0looki, Jewelry, SyMtuIsa, sta. All repairing In this line neatly l"ne and warranted. Par ticular attention paid to the repairing of Watches. GROCERY AND PROVISION STORE IN TIONESTA . GEO. W.B0VARD& C0. HAVE Inst brought on a complete and carefully selected stock of FLOUR, . . GROCERIES. H PROVISIONS, and everything nocesNary to the complete stock ofa Hntt-cliiKaUrouery liouaa, which they have oieiied out at their establish ment on Elm St., Unit door north of M. K Ch arch. ' TEAS, COFFEES. SUGARS. KYRUPS, FRUITS, SPICES. HAMS, LARD, A NI mo X'lS'lO'SS OF ALL KINDS, at me 'lowest pash prices, floods warrant ed to be of the !,. nualit v. Call and ex- amino, and e lxltf Mf-cennnit vwi. WKO.W, hVARp&CO, iHi,0, '72. " T10NESTA, PA., HIS X MARK. BY EUi F. MOBBY. Now of all the distinctions of man. The highest is his Infinite power of amend ment, or reputation, or recovery, oi im provement." CHAPTER I. I never liked Leigh Page. Ills life was of all others the most distasteful to roe an utterly aimless, drifting ex istence, without strong desire, either for good or evil. Tin had talents rertainlr. a keen wit and subtile analysis but he used! them only for caricature and burlesque. His very tone had a drawl, and his face a latent sneer. But his friends (who were few) said ha was capable of kind and generous acts, and the Goulricts (his. half-sister's family) seemed absolutely devoted to him. Curtis Kolles, my young adjutant, would have disliked him less but for (his. Like him, he never could, be cause theie was an inborn lack of con geniality between tho two; Leigh, blase and indifferent, and Curtis, pas sionate, shy, thoroughly in , earnest. and full of intense vitality, liut be was engaged to Rachel Goulrick, (George Goulrick's youngest sister,) and her admiration for .Leigh Page, and gratification for his kindness to her trother's family, almost drove Curtis wild with jealousy, although he tried to, and I believe did, conceal it from her. . ' But I knew a crisis was imminent when I heard her reprove her lover indignantly for uttering a rather severe criticism upon Leigh Page's idle life in her presence. "No one shall speak before m against him V she said, tx ciledly, and the quick tears stood in her dark-blue eyea, "when he baa been the kindest, truest friend my brother ever had. We might be beggars now but for him I" i ; Curtis Rolles did not eply, bnt I saw him bito his lip and clench bis hand as if with sudden pain, and I knew his passion was at fever-heat. He had offered at the time of George's failure to do all which Leigh had done, and he suspected the latter of making capital of his kindness to the brother in order to influence the sister. So when I entered the mus room that night, and found Leigh Page ex hibitiug to a crowd of amused com panions some clever caricatures on Curtis Rolles, and they hit fairly enough, poor fellow, for Curtis was too earnest not to be . vulnerable I felt uueasy. At last I said to Leigh Pace "My good fellow! you had better put these things aside. -Curtis will beneresooo, and this sort of thing won't do. One has a prejudice against a joke on one's self, you know. i , Leigh Page cave me a defiant stare out of his lazy blue eyes, and threw the drawings diwn on the table, tn lull view of the group 'now entering the door. Curtis Rolles was one. "What's this?" naked Burton An drews, sauntering up to the table. "It's a mighty clever thing 1 Why, Curtis, it is you to the lile, my boy J Curtis Rolles looked at it in silence, and his boyish features began to grow curiously stern ; but the very force of passion kept him outwardly quiet. "You meant these as insulting to me, Mr. Page?" he asked. "If you find the truth an insult, Mr. Rolles, replied Leigh, with a cool, sneering lrug'a. "Your friends recog nize the resemblance." ., A fierce blow in the face felled him to the earth ; auothcr and another fell with blind, passionate power, until the men separated them by force; but Leigh Page had had no opportunity to retaliate, and we knew the affair would not end there, lue first stroke half stunned him, and wheu he left the room, bruised, scarred, and bleeding, not even his mother would have recog nized his face. But in a few days he had recovered Biiftieiently to go out, and it was sus pected that a challenge had been sent. Thursday evening he was among the officers on the parade ground, though there was an ugly red scar on his brow. Curtis Kolles was also there, of course, but uo sign of recognition passed be tween him and Leigh Page, or his friends. There was a large crowd of specta tors present, and among them, Rachel Goulrick. She was a light-hearted, impulsive girl, almost as quick with a jest as with the flash of temper which marked her displeasure. This even she looked pale and downcast. I was standing near her wheu two men be gan discussiug the chances of a duel. They seemed to thing there was no doubt of it. "Oh, dear! aud will no nian try to stop them?" ahe exclaimed, 'in low, passionate tones'; and then, bofore I quite understood the -situation, the whole crowd, about to disperse, were anestej by seeing her slight girlish aLX"V A : I i Ad a - " M . MARCH 4, 1874. figure rush into the square where Leigh Page was standing. Curtis Rolles tried to stop her, but she waved him back with an imperious gesture that would not be gainsaid. Leigh Page did not see her; he was talking to another officer, when he heard her voice, tremulous, vibrating with intense emotion, as she knelt on the earth before him. - H "Since Curtis Rolles will not ask your pardon, I, his betrothed, on whose heart this failure and shame lies heav ily. I ask it on my knees. And," . as she lifted her hands to heaven, as if to call it as witness to here words, "I will never marry him until ho makes reparation for the blow. Leigh rage caught her hand in botn of his. "I recall my challenge." He turn ed to Curtis Rolles, and said, in a clear, ringing voice, "and I apologize for my rudeness before. Gentlemen I" he said to the officers standing by, . "I do not need to prove my courage now?" . 1 here was the scar ol a sabre-cut across his hand, which was visible as he turned aside from the kneeling cm, and the spectators uttered a shout of applause. No man indeed: doubted Leigh 1 age s bravery. I hen Kaehel s brother came tor- ward, and she went with him. but not until some earnest, graceful - words of praise from Leigh Page had brought tears to her eyes. They streamed down her cheeks as sha .lowered her veil and moved away, without a word, to Curtis Rolles. The young fellow looked cnt to the soul. He had refused to acknowledge Leigh Page's words to him by the slightest signs ; he did move 'once as ho spoke to Rachel the last time, but except for that, it might have been a marble statue standing there. 1 he ex pression in his face was one that 6hak sneare had painted with' one line of matchless pathos in his " Cymbdine. Past hope and In despair ; that way past And I did not know how such a rup ture, between two natures so tenacious and persistent, could be healed. CHAPTER II. Leigh Paze and Rachel Goulrick had been together for an hour in the garden. It was now twilight iti the old, dark town of St. Augustine, and the early moon glimmered ou the southern waters, and fell, shivered in to a thousand fragments, through the palmetto leaves on the ground un Jer neath. Large white moths floated dreamily in aerial circles .over its fra grant blossoms and tho mooul it orange boughs. The voice of the speaker seemed eager and tremulous as he spoke of his love for the young girl by him, whose dark eyes drooped under his own. He tCld ber that she was like a new and pure life to him, aud that for her sake he could overlive his wortuiess and aimless past. ' "' ; . "But I do not love you," she said, softly, "except as a 'dear friend. I love Curtis Rolles. Overlive your past for a nobler sake than mine. , He was about to speak figaiu, when the sound of music broke upon the air. It was some one playing the love ly Haydn Sonata of Beethoven. The melody seemed to float into the moon light and shadow, and infuse them with a strange passion and pain. An infinite sweetness of desire thrilled through, while long, sorrowful, sighing notes trembled in the exquisite andante movement. It was as if a soal on the confines of eternity spoke to the souls behind in unearthly entreaty aud ten derness. As it died away.Leigh Page answer ed, with a pew tone : "Then make your lover happy. Do not let me loci that I have blighted your two lives; and, indeed, I was to blame for the for the first provocation. There is no repa- tion due to me now.. Do not think of me, but forgive him, and make him happy." tehe turned a lace glowing with en thusiasm toward him. "I know my judgment of you was truest" You are very generous, but 1 must be loyal to my sense of right as to my lover; and my vow is between my soul and Heaven. You cannot lessen its force." He took her trembling hand in his, and kissed it with a reverential ten derness. "I wish that you could have loved me," he said. "I wish I could have made you happy. No one eould love you more." And he went away. Three months had gone by. aud still Rachel Gout rick aud Curtis Rolles were estranged. Leigh Page was ill in the old Strega rai house, a mile from town ; and as vet there hail beeu uo further sign of reconciliation between the two men, although it was understood that Leigh Page would accept any advances for Kaehel boa trick a sake. J4ut Curtis Rolles was proud, (as such a keenly-sensitive and fiery na ture only could be,) anil I thought he would rather die tliau yield. iUtXttn. $2 PER ANNUM. He came into my room late one night. His eyes had a heavy look about them, and his mouth wore a list less, tried expression, as different- as pocsiblo from the bright, merry smile of four months ago. "I thought Rachel Goulrick's con scientiousness was morbid ; it seemed cruel and wicked to sacrifice a young life indeed, the happiness of two lives to a mere scuple ; and I said so very strongly. . He fired np at once, and, to my Surprise-, defended her. blie is right I and I am not such n brute yet as even to wish to change her, or lower her to my level for viy plea- sure, i Know wnai sne says is true, and my whole soul revolts from it. I enn't give up, and I am not worthy' of her!" "You look tired," I said, pityingly, as the flush laded, and he leaned back exhausted. "Yes," he answered, "I am glad of it. It 1 could only chill my own thoughts always by fatigue I might be happier. ' Colonel, if you will let me, I will sleep here to-night." ,, . I agreed readily, for I did not . feel easy about the boy; such a stale of misery was the very worst for soul or body. We were awakened at half-past three by a dull, roaring sound in our ears, and as I sprang up hastily, I saw the whole horizon crimson with a belt of flames. "It is on the Stregaras road 1" I ex claimed, as I looked out. Curtis did not answer, but I saw by the flash in his eyes and the sudden compression of his lips that he remem bered Leigh Page. ,. ' I did not ask what he was going to do. I did not t'oubt him more than my own life. We dressed hurriedly, sprang on onr horses, aud were ot. the road in less time than it takes to write these few lines. : The bla'zo aud clouds of smoke were awful to the right of us. We eould hear the forest trees crack and fall one by one with a crash, as we rode Presently we Beared the burning, re gion, and our horses began to be restive and to shy trora the smoking brands. We got down, and tied them near a pool of water, which had already been burned for some distauce around. . ' Then we hastened on, still without a word, to the old house. It was still standing, though the smoke, was blown iu such volumes between lis, that 'we could just see it occasionally, as a gust of wind cleared away the thick cloud for a few minutes and it rolled back again. . i "I am not too late!" 1 tried Curtis and his eyes flashed with exultation There were some men standing on the lawn, and they tried to stop him "You cannot save turn ; the room is too far back. It is at the peril of your lile, they shouted ; Dtu lie had already gone. 1 followed, but he was so far. abend that when I reached the upper stair case, I met him with the insensible form of Leigh Page in his arsm. A brand from the falling door had struck him as he came out, and left burned and bleeding wound on his forehead, but he looked as if new life were bounding in every vein and fiber. His example animated the lookers on to new ellbrU. and at last the fire was suppressed. Leigh Page recovered, and afler wards went to a uew station in .the far West, where he did his country noble and true service. I never saw him af ter he left St. Augustine. Curtis Rolles and Rachel Goulrick were married. Curtis always had zigzag sear on his brow, which, by curious coincidence, was iu the sain place that he had struck his enemy in the lace; but we, who knew now came there, never thought that it dis figured bis open, manly countenauce. Rachel s eyes were never so lull1 tender, passionate love and -enthusi asm, nor her voice so lull ot emotion as when she looked at it, for she be lieved, with her whole heart, that tl noblest work of man was to atone and make reparation for a wrong. This scar hU x mark, as the old signatures have it was in her sight the sign and symbol of the noblest and highest honor. To-Day. The common phrase, "I thought I should kill myself laughiqn-," became a sad reality with a man iu Massachu setts last 1 riday morning. He was engaged iu conversation with his wife and laughing very heartily, when sud denly he ssid, "Stop ; yon make me laugh to much," aud falling to the floor instantly expired. A stoical Scotchnrau was addressed by his sick wif'u : Oh, John I shan't leave this bed alive." "Please thee self, Betty, and thee'l please mo,", re turned John, with equanimity. "I have been a good wife to vou" persis ted the dying woman. "Middlin Bet- I ty, only iniddliu," Rates of Advertising. One Scpmrn (I (rich,) our Inertion - tl .iO OneHiun;p " one montli - :i Oi Ono.SiiiHto " tliru" months - H (K) OneKiiiare " one year - - I1) Co Two Sfpinrns, one year 13 00 Ituaiton'ol. - . .. - ;i im Half " 60 CO One , " " - - - - ! 10 Leiial notices at established rains. Marriage anl death notices, irrsUn, All IiIIIm for voarlv advertisements col lected quarterly. Temporary advertise ments must lie paid for in alvnnco. Jon work, I nsii on iwuverv. UOfSti TO KPKM.INH HCHOOI.. ' That fair young creature who went with us! It don't make any difl'crcnoo that she went back on her word, grew up to be a hatchet-faced old maid, her voice like a hie aud her tetupor catsup she was lovely, then. "Would, tho fair and lovely Augusta accept our company to a spelling school out at Duck .Lane, Uiursday nigliti.' Ihe fair Augusta would, she said, and ,she id. buch a moon, such an easy mo tion of the sleigh ! Such singing in chorus T Every girl had a front .door key in her pocket, and every young man lelt as it he could tliniu a sued 40,000 feet high to get into his own chamber window. That fair young creature how she pretended to' shiver with cold until an arm was gently and affectionately placed around ber deli cate waist. ' Then the weather sudden ly grew warmer, and she tlijn t shiver any tuore. . It was a beautiful night. We observed that Bill Jones and Sarah Smith seemed very affectionate. She said it seemed so to her. but having stuck the end of a, horse blanket in her eye? she wasn't prepared to make an affidavit. ' Somehow after that ,jthe conversation began to grow more and more interesting, and.-with that lair young creature s head on our. shoulder we d have sat out to ride to Vermont and back without a stop. She was so artless and innocent; so child-like and confiding. She. told all about how her stepmother pounded her with tho rt)l-- lngpin, aud wben we thought ot a rolling piu hacking against her frsgiio form and bounding over her. alabaster shoulders, our hair stood on pnd . with mad freuzv.. She said she -sometimes thought she'd get married to . escape further persecution, and we were about to lay our hand ou our heart, aud oiler to be tiers lorevexmore, when. the sleigh stopped at the school house, , Alien came the spelling down, r It was Brighton against Bungtown, with the schoolmaster iu favor , of Bung town. . Such words as Vcatarrlt", "tur key," "parallel," etc, soon- reduced the "sides" to a , half dozen, and at length we were left to sustain the hon or of Brighton. The . schoolmaster vas determined that Bungtown should win, and it did wben we spelled "om nibus" with double i'sv:' He -said it wasn't right, -and when Brighton insisted, he o fife red 'to uphold 'Bung town with the iron poker. i However, it was an object to be' consoled and sympathized with by "our girl." , She positively shed tears of abger and sym pathy, and she- said there were two. s's in omnibus of course, one on each side, and she wasn't positive but there was oue on the door behind. By and by the conversation went back to stepmoth ers, rolling pins, alabaster shoulders and getting married,' and she .said she'd be "ours."'. Wo figured tip how we could keep houso on $3.50 per week aud have a dollar left; just how the woodbine would trail over: our door; how we'd make her -stepnlother die of a broken heart;, how but you all remember. It was a boy's dream. She dicouraged us when she thought she coitld marry a daubing clerk, and her father sat the dog on me, and her brothers threatened to shoot; but as I said, it don't made any. difTercnco now. ' Wheu I think over the past, I feel to exclaim like Walt Whitman, "Oh, gim'rue back them other, days I" An applicant for old clothes . at a Pine street residence, Saturday, ro ccived a half dozen soiled paper col-. lare with the advioe "to turn them and chalk the edges." This might bo called generosity without judgement, and is in keeping with the act of a soldier's mother during the late war, who sent him in a Christmas box au elegant spittoeu. j ' "This is a very crooked path' said Jones to Brown, as tbey wound up the side of. Jlontauvet. "Cooked!" was the reply, it is so confounded cigcag you can stand with one foot on zig and the other on zag without any difficulty." Galway, the capital of the Western Highlauds of Irelaud, is often humor ously called "the nearest parish to 'America," it being the most . westerly poiut iu tho Britain Ioles whence com munication may be hud with the New World. ,:, It will afford sweeter happiness in the hour of death to have wiped one tear from the cheek of sorrow than to have ruled an empire, to have con quered millions, or to have enslaved the world. "Well, Bridget, if I engage you, I shall waut you to stay at home when ever I shall wish to go out." "Well, ma'am, I have no objections, providin' yeu do the snmo, when I,, wish to go out." ' A Green Bay paper says that a widower with a clean shirt on can marry in that towu within three hours. Green Bay is uorthcast of Detroit bouts leave in May. '