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Waltz in, walta In, ye little kids, and gather round my knoe, And drop them books a -id first pot-hooks, and hoar a yarn from tne. I kin not sling a fairy tnle of Jinny's fierce and wild, For I hold it unchristian to deceive a simple child But aa from school yer driftin' by I thowt ye'd like to hear Of a " Bpollin' Boe " at Angel's that we organ ized last year. It warn't made up of gentle kida of pretty kids like you, But gents z hed their reg'Iar growth, and omo enough for two. Thore woz Lanky Jim of Sutter's Fork and Bilson of Lagrange, And " Pistol Bob," whA wore that day a knife ' by way of obange. You start, you little kids, you think those are not protty name, But each had a man behind it, and my name is Truthful James. Thar was Toker Dick from Whiaky Flat and Smith of Shooter's Bpnd, And Brown 'of Calaveras which I want no bettei friend. , Three-fingered Jack-yes, pretty dears three fingers yon have five. Clipp out off two it's.sing'lar too, that Clapp ain't now alive. 'Twas very wrong, indeed, my dears, and Clapp waa.mnch to blame ; Likewise was Jack, in after years, for shootiu' of that same. The nights wore kinder lengtheniu' out, the rains bad jost begun, When alt the oamp came np to I'ete's to have their Usual fun ; Bat we all sot kinder tad-like around the bar room stove Till Smith got np, permistkiss-like and thu remark he hove : ' ' Thar's a new game down in Frisco, tlffet ez far es I ean see, Boats enohre, poker and van -toon, they calls - the ' PpeUiu' Bee.' " Then Brown of Calaveras dimply hitched his chair and spake : , " Poker is good enough for me," and Lanky Jim ses, "Shake!" And Bob allowed1 he warn't proud, but be " must say right thar That the man who tackled euchre hed his edu cation eqar." This brought np Liuny Fairotild, the school master, who said, lie knew the game and be wonld give ins) mo tions on that head. " For lnstanoe, take some simple word," sez be, " like ' separate,' Now who o&n spell it V" Dog my skin, ef thar was one in eight. This sot they hoys all wild at onoe. The chains was put in row, And at the head was Lanky Jim, and at the . foot was Joe, And high upon the br itself the school-master was raised, And the bar-keep put bis glasses down, and sat and silent gazed. The first word out was " parallel," and seven let it be, Till Jce waltzed in his doublo " 1 " betwixt tho " a " and ' e " ; For, since be drilled thorn Mexicans in San Jacinto's fight, Taar warn't no prouder man got up than Pistol Joe that night, Till " rhythm " came ! He tried to smile, then Raid, " they had him there," And Lanky Jim, with one long stride got up and took his chair. 0 i little kids ! my pretty kidx, 'twas touching to survey Those bearded men, with weppings on, like school boys at their play. They'd laugh with glee, and shout to see each other lead the van, And Bob sat up as mouitor with a cue for a rattan, Till the chair gave " incinorate," and Brown said he'd be durned If any such blamed word as that in school was ever learned. When " phthisis " came they all sprang up and vowed the man who rang Another blamed Greek word on them be taken out and hung. As they sat down again I saw in Bilson 's eye a flash, And Brown of Calaveras was a-twisting his mustache, And when at last Brown slipped on " gneiss " and Bilson took bis chair, Ee dropped some .casual words about some folks who dyed thoir hair. And then the Chair grew very white, and the Chair said he'd adjourn, But Poker Dick remarked that he would wait and got his turn ; Then with a tremblin' voice and hand, and with a wanderin' eye, The Chair next ogered " eidor duck," and Dick began with " I ", And Bilson smiled thou Bilson shrieked ! Just how the fight begun 1 never knowed, for Bilson dropped and Dick he moved up one. Then certain gents arose aud said " they'd bus iness down in camp," And " ea the road was rather dark, and ez the night was damp, They'd" here got up Three-fingered Jack and locked the door and yelled : " No, not one mother's son goes out till that thar word is spelled !" Jiut while the words were on his lips, he groaned and sauk in pain, And sank with Webster on his chtot and Wor cester on his brain. Below the bar dodged Poker Dick aud tried to look ez he Was huntin' np authorities thet no one else could see ; And Brown got down bohind the stove allowln' he " was cold," Till it upsot and down his legs the cinders freely rolled, And several gents called " Order I" till in his simple way Poor Smith began with " O " " R " " or " and lie was dragged away. Oh, little kids, ny pretty kids, down ou your knees aud pray 1 You've got your eddication in a peaceful sort of way j And boar in mind thar may be sharps ez slings their spellin' square, But likewise slings their bowie-knives without ' a thought or care You wants to know the rest, my dears ? That's all ! In me yon see The only gent that lived to tell about thet Spellin' Bee ! He ceased and passed, that truthful man ; the children went their way With downcast heads and downcast hearts but not to sport or play For when at eve the lamps were lit, and sup- perless to bed Each child was sent, with tasks undone and lessors all unsaid, No man might know the . awful woe that thrilled their youthful frames, As they dreamed of Angel's Spelling Bee and thought of Truthful James. Bret Uarte in A'oventber licrihnrr. The Plague at Marseilles, The 15th of March, 1720, was a gay and joyous day in the queen city of the Mediterranean, Marseilles, which even then was one of the finest places of the old world, and which to-day is dazzling in the splendor of its gorgeous build ings, its magnificent situation and its sunny sky. On that day a great event occurred in tho commercial history of Marseilles. The firfct ship from Levant, laden with precious cachemire wool, had ar rived and it was to be woven at Mar seilles, whose great ambition was to eclipse the spinneries of Lyons aud Rouen. The sailors of the ship were treated to a collation at the pubho expense, and until a late hour of the night crowds singinsr joyous ditties were passing through the principal streets of tne city. Alas ! Had the people of Marseilles known what dreadful calamities the wool ship hnd carried to them 1 It had sailed from Smyrna, and at Smyrna that terrible scourge of former ages the plague, was raging. Disinfecting processes at that time were never resorted to, and the narrow streets of Marseilles, near the harbor, were kept in a very filthy condition. Next day the wool-ship was unloaded, and two hours later most of the work men engaged ou the dock near.it were writhing in the agonies of the plague. A cry of horror resounded throughout the whole city when the dread news be came generally known. The stores were shut up and the people locked themselves in their dwellings. Some of the wealthy residents hurriedly left the city, and departed for the pine-clad hills of north Marseilles, where the air was bracing and salubrious. But the vast majority of the people stayed. Stayed to die to die in a mari ner too horrible to imagine. It was at setting in of dusk that a well dressed and very handsome young man entered a narrow street in the northern part of the city. He stood still in front of a low house, the window shutters of which where tightly closed. From his pocket he drew a silver whistle, and blew three shrill notes from it. A. few minutes later the front door of the house was cautiously opened. In the dim twilight the young man re cognized a frail female form, dressed in a flowing white wrapper. He rushed to ward her, and clasping her in his arms exclaimed, rapturously : "Sephronia!" " Autoine !" For a minute they remained locked in a fervent embrace. Theu she drew him gently into a hallway. They exchanged many tender caresses. At last she ushered him into a cozily f urnished back room, lighted by a hang ing lamp, which shed a dim light over the room. Their sat down on a low divan. She was a girlish beauty of the true Eastern style, graceful as a fawn, per haps eighteen years old, perhaps a year or two younger, with hair raven black, a complexion faultlessly pure, magnifi cent eyes and a mouth as charming as that of the Venus of Milo. The young man took her hand, and gazed lovingly into her eyes. " Sophronia," he said at last, " I have come o hear your decision." A cloud at once darkened the brow of the lovely girl. " Antoine de Couras," she said, press ing her small hand against her heart, " you love me I love you you with all my hoart. But " But !" he eiclaimed impatiently. But, Antoine, dearest Antoine, I cannot marry you 1" He sprang to his feet, uttering a wild imprecation. 'Why, Sophronia, why?" he cried, stamping his foot on the ground. " Listen to me, Antoine," she said, calmly. " What am I in the eyes of the world but a wretched outcast T The daughter of a woman who was broken on the wheel as a witch." Iler bosom heaved convulsively as she uttered these words." t " Poor mother !" she sighed. " She a witch because she cured some sick peo ple whom the stupid physicians of Mar seilles had given up. "It was an abominable outrage 1" murmured M. de Couras It was, Antoine. My life was in danger. You saved me, and concealed me here I And then think of who you are. The only son of a wealthy coun selor to the parliament. Your father would disown you." I have a modest fortune in my own right," interposed Antoine. "A modest fortune I" she exclaimed almost scornfully? ' How happy you, the petted child of opulence, would be with a slender income ?" I would be with you. But tell me, Sephronia, is your decision irrevocable ?" She hesitated. Then she passionately drew him to her heart. "No! no!" she cried. "Only give me a week's time. I have a strange foreboding that startling events are going to happen." " One startling event has already hap pened," said M. De Bouras. "The plague has broken out to-day in Mar seilles." "The plague !" she echoed, with dis tended eyes. 4 "Yes; everybody is alarmed." " And well they may be," she said, solemnly. " Few cures can be effected where the plague appears in its most malignant form." "Many people have died this after noon, Sephronia," "Then God have mercy upon Mar seilles ! You must forthwith leave the city, Antoine!" He laughed. " Why ! I am not afraid," he said. " Do not laugh, Antoine ; I and my whole family would have oeen swept away by the plague if my father, who was a very learned man, had not pos sessed an infallible remedy for the epi demic." " Have you got that remedy ? " An toine asked, eagerly. " I have," she replied. " Why, then, do not you give it to the authorities, Sephronia? " "And be broken on the wheel as a itch ! " she exclaimed, bitterly. No, o ! And what good would it do ? They would never apply it." "I must go, then, Sephronia," he said; " I shall come back in a week and get your final answer. "Stay a minute ; I shalFgive you some of my father's plague arcanum." She went into au adjoining room and rttu n d toon afterward with a large crystal bottle. The other vial she filled with an oily substance, a soft salve, which she took with an ivory spoon from the jar, " If you should get the plague," she said, " rub your body with this salve, and drink a few drops of the fluid. You will speedily get well." They parted most tenderly, and An toine left the house. He had passed on but a few steps when he was attacked by two desperate fellows who knocked him senseless. Is it not curious that, when all good Eeople shut themselves up in their omes in order to escape the pestilence, desperate criminals prowl about fearless ly, bent on murder and robbery. They rifled the pockets of the inani mate young man. They found in them a well-filled purse and two vials. 1 ha latter they flung away contemptuously. They then hurried away, M. DeCouras awoke ten minutes later. The night was very dark, but he groped his way to a thoroughfare and speedily reached his father'b palatial mansion. There terrible news awaited him his father, his mother, and his two love ly sisters hod been attacked by the plague. All their cowardly servants had fled from the house. Antoine bethought himself of the two vials Sephronia had given him. He was bitterly disappointed when he found that they were gone. Suddenly he felt that his own brain began to reel, and he sank senseless to the floor. He, too, had the plague ' Twenty-four hours later he awoke to consciousness. At his bedside sat Seph ronia. "I heard that you and your whole family were down with the plague ; so I came to your house. Your parents and your Bisters are dying. You will live !" ne did recover, and a week latr was able to be about. He persuaded Sephro nia to let him hay a quantity of the panacea. She remained in the house while he went into the streets, and he effected numerous cures. Everybody was in despair. The phy sicians did not know anything about the plague. A stupid rumor had been cir culated, that the wells had been poison ed. So the people refused to drink water. The good bishop of the diocese, MonBeigneur De Benzunoe made super human efforts to relieve the suffering, but all to no purpose. There were no hearses, no coffins. Vast numbers of corpses were piled up in the streets. In front of one of these ghastly piles An toine De Couras one day met the bish op. The noble prelate's courage was evidently giving way. Antoine saw at onoe that the epidemic had singled him out as a fresh victim. The young man poured a few drops of the elixir down the Bishop's throat, "It revives me," said Monseigneur De Benzunoe, heaving a deep sigh. "Let me rub your hands and your face with this ointment, Monseignear. It will save your precious life." "A thousand thanks, young maul How can I reward you I" " Will you stay here a minute, Mon seigneur. I will be back presently." In a few minutes Antoine returned with the blushing Sephronia, " Marry us Monseigneur ! Let that be my reward." And they were married in front of all those dreadful corpses? The corpses were finally pushed into the sea by the galley slaves that had been liberated for that purpose. Such an appalling calamity never be fell a civilized city in modern times. Wonderful Automatons. Many of our readers, says a New York paper, have seen curious specimens of ingenious mechanism, intended to imi tate in various ways the capacity of our bodies aided by the brain. Dolls that open and shut their eyes, move their jawB and lips, and even articulate cer tain words, are modern inventions to be found in nearly every large toy store in the city. Figures that, being wound up, win aance a Hornpipe, nave ceased to be a novelty. Automatic railroad trains for children, worked by springs, upon the principle of a watch's move ments, have long been the delight of Young America, and have traversed half the drawing-rooms in the country, often to the amusement of " children of a larger growth." The publio have hem also familiar with automatic chess-players and musical band performers. All of which are modern inventions. But there are wonderful stories told of the ancients in this line, surpassing our automatons altogether ; ana espe cially is this the case as to mechanism so constructed as to resemble the figure and imitate the actions of man. Thus, we are told by the pages of history that Archytas, of Tarentum, about four hun dred years B. C, was in the habit of making wooden pigeons that could fly. Albertus Magnus constructed an auto maton to open his door when visitors knocked at it. The case of the famous Regiomatanus also occurs to ns in this connection, who made a wooden eagle that flew forth from the city, saluted the emperor, and returned again from whence it had been dispatched. The same ingenious inventor constructed a metallic fly which flew out of his hand and returned to it after flying about the room. These instanoes only serve to show the ingenuity exercised in this special line long before the period of the Christian era. About a hundred years ago, an auto maton flute-player was exhibited in Paris, that played on the flute in the same manner as a living performer. Some ten years later, Vancausen, bkn Belf a musician, produced a flageolet player, whioh performed on the flageolet with the left hand and beat a tamborine with the right. This same Vancausen also made a wooden duck which dabbled in the water, swam, drank and quaoked like a real duck, It is not many years since a Frenchman exhibited, in several of our cities, a duck of similar mechani cal powers, and which was an object of great curiosity. Automatons have been constructed within the last half century which wrote and played upon the piano and organ. A Swiss, whose name was Mailardis, constructed, within the memory of some of our readers, a female figure which performed eighteen tunes upon the piano-forte, and which continued in mo tion for a whole hour- without readjust ing. The same inventor constructed a boy that would write and draw. Mael zef, who exhibited the famous chess player, did not depend upon machinery. It was finally discovered that he had a diminutive human being concealed in side of his pretended automaton. lie Had Ills Suspicious. ' Au elderly man wearing blue jeans, spectacles and a puzzled expression, stood on the corner of Fourth and Olive Tuesday afternoon for nearly an hour, gazing around abstractedly. Finally he stopped a gentleman who was passing and inquired: " Stranger, who am I; or, rather, where am 1 V" " You are on Fourth street." ' I had my suspicions. This isn't the right place. You see, I'm a stranger in the city naver was in St. Louis be fore." . And he started off, saying he had promised to meet a man on Fourteenth and Olive "a splendid chap." "Look here,' said the gentleman, " do you know the man well ?" " Just met him this morning not in timately acquainted, you see; but he's one of the nicest fellows I ever saw." And he trudged away. About six o'clock in the evening the gentleman happened to run across his spectacled friend again and inquired whether or not he had found his new acquaintance, whereupon the old fellow raised his glasses slowly and remarked: " Stranger, I have my suspicions. I lent this man twenty-five dollars this morning, and he promised to meet me on Fourteenth and Olive at five o'clock this afternoon and return the money, but he wasn't there, and the worst of it is, he is a minister of the gospel, at least he told me so, and he had a Bible. Good evidence, hey ?" "Well, my friend, you'll never get your money, You've been swindled by a sharper." " Think so ? I've had my suspicions. Fact is, however, I don't care so much about losing the money as meeting the old woman she's up there in a boarding-house," pointing over his shoulder with his thumb. "I tell you, she's a mouser and will find it out. Then won't there be a muss, though ? I have my suspicious," A'f, Louis JCt publican. REAL ROMANCE. Which Trlla Tale mt What Unopened ('4er the Mnmmrr UV KLCIENE K1BI.D. I I I I One calm, delightful autumn night, While tiny stars were twinkling bright, With cheery laugh and pleasant talk Tom and Maria took a walk, Bat lo t as down a rural glade kWith lingering steps. the couple strayed, A monstrous dog, with shaggy hair. Bushed ont upon the loving pair I II II Oh, save me, Tom 1 " Maria cried " I'll save myself I " the wretch replied ; And with a stifled, hasty 'moan, ' He hurried off for parts unknown. The savage dog became more calm He growled, but did the maid no harm. And now, though Tom's poor heart Is sore, Maria smiles on him no more. &U IaiiU Journal. Bow Bells. For some time past this famous peal of bells, one of the finest, if cot the fin est, in the city of Loudon, has been un dergoing examination in the publio in terested before long the familiar chimes which captivated or consoled a Whitting tou, aud having since charmed many more from time immemorial, will ring out as before. The church of St. Mary-le-Bow, which, if not originally a Roman temple, as generally believed, was one of the earliest churches built by the Norman conquerors, has been destroyed more than once by storm and fire. It was at one time garrisoned and besieged, and was afterward the scene of an as sasoination. It was first mentioned as a Christian church in the reign of Wil liam the Conqueror. Stowe says it was the first in tne city built on arches of stone, and that it was, therefore, called St. Mary de Arcubus, or the Bow, al though he elsewhere says, but with less apparent probability, that it took its name from certain stone arches support ing a lantern on the top of the tower. By the way, the court of arches was formerly held in this church, and de rived its name from that circumstance. During the reign of William Rufns, the roof of the church was blown off by the wind, and four of the rafters were driven into the ground with such vio lence that, although they were each twenty-six feet long, little more than four feet of length was visible, the ground in the neighborhood being then a mere fen. About 100 years afer this event a tumult of a Berious nature oc curred in the citv, which led to the as sault upon the church before alluded to. The ringleader was William Fitz Osbert, surname! Longbeard, who was almost worshiped by the lower orders on ac count of his exertions as a professed ad vocate of the poor against the oppres sions of the rich. An attempt 'being made to seize him, he took refuge in Bow steeple, together with various fol lowers, and being well provided with ammunition and provisions, was able for a long time to defy the authorities. In order to drive him out the steeple was fired. This had the desired effect ; the rioters were made prisoners, and, after a hasty trial, were hanged at the Elms in Smithfield, at that time the usual place of execution. It appeared that Fitz Osbert did not lose his reputation among the people with his life, for it is said that after his death vast numbers of persons resorted to Smithfield, ex pecting that miracles would be perform ed, and that they carried away as holy relics pieces of the earth on which his blood had fallen. The frequent mysterious burning of haysticks and farmers' building has led to the discovery that they are set on fire by wasps' nests, and that the nests are ignited Dy spontaneous combustion. This is produced by the chemical action of the wax in contact with the paper like substance of whioh the nest is com posed, a comparatively small access of oxygen being sufficient to make it burst forth, in a blaze. l "T7 o o r i i e L l J Mj' i . 7 I o 1 I I I .1 ST, f i I Tears. Is it raining, little flower ? Be glad of rain ! Too much rain would wither thee Twill thine again. The olonds are vt ry black, 'tis true, But JUBt behind them shines the blue. Art thou weary, tender heart ? Be glad of pain ; In sorrow sweetest things will grow, As flowers in rain. God watches, and thou wilt have sun When clouds their perfect work have done . Items of Interest. High-toned people Tenor singers. Items of interest The entries in one's bank book. Going the rounds of the press The girl who waltzes. All men are not homeless, but some are home less than others. A St. Louis paper calls the Indians the " gentlemen without hats." The first literal y magazine in America . was published by Franklin, in 1741. The inner ear shoold never be clean- t ed, says an authority on the subject. The white of eggs and the milk of the cow are almost identical in composition. "Don't worry about my going away, , my darling. Absence, yon know, makes the heart grow fonder." " Of somebody else," added the darling. Cannon were first used as early as 1338. Stone balls were the projectiles at that time, and were in use among eastern nations up to 1806. Official report shows that all the coin produced from the mints of the United States since 1783 amounts, in round numbers, to $1,290,000,000. The first agricultural school was founded by Fellenberg, in Switzerland, ' in 1806. Ireland alone has now over two hundred agricultural schools. ; Male gossip: "He is liberal to a fault," said Smith, speaking of a well known citizen of Virginia City. " It is the only thing to which he is liberal," said Brown. And then the fault must be his own," remarked Jones. .'The Romans, before the time of the younger Pliny, not only used glass in stead of gold and silver, for drinking ; vessels, but they knew how to glaze thtir windows with it, and they fiied it in the walls of their rooms, to render , . . their apartments more pleasant. Ages of Animals. A bear rarely exoeeds twenty years ; a dog lives twenty years, a wolf twenty, a fox fourteen or sixteen ; lions are long-lived one, named Pompey, lived to the age of seventy. The average of cats is fourteen years, a squirrel and hare seven or eight years, rabbits seven Elephants have beeu known to live to the great age of four hundred years. When Alexander the Great had con quered one Porus, king of India, he took a great elephant which bad fought very valiantly for the king, named him Ajax, and dedicated him to the sun, and let him go with this inscription : "Al exander, the eon of Jupiter, had dedi cated Ajax to the sun." This elephant was found three hundred and fifty -four years after. Pigs have been known to live to the age of thirty years, the rhi noceros to twenty.' A horse haa been known to live to the age of sixty-two. but averages twenty to twenty-five. Camels sometime live to the age of one hundred. Stags oro loDg-lived; sher seldom exceed the age of ten ; cows liv about fifteen years. Cuviejr consider it probable that whales sometimes live to the age of one thousand. The dol phin and porpoise attain the age ci thirty. An eagle died at Vienna at tl age of one hundred and four ye---Kaveus have frequently reached the fc, of one hundred. Swans have be .. known to live three hundred years. M r . Mallerton has the skeleton of a swan that attained the age of two hundred and ninety years. Pelicans are lorm lived. A tortoise has been known t live to the age of one hundred seven. Edison at Home. The following description of Edisoi . the great inventor, is from an article i... Acribntr's : "Of the number of per sons in the laboratory, remark princi pally the one vou may have least though of selecting, from the informality of h appearance. The rest are but skill assistants, to. whom he is able to cor mit some experiments in their seoond;ir stages. It is a figure of perhaps feet nine in height, bending intent! , above some detail of work. There is t general -appearance of youth about it, but the face, knit into anxious wrinkles, seems old. The dark hair, beginning to be touched with gray falls over the forehead in a mop. The hands are stained with aoid. and the clothing is an ordinary, " ready-made" order. It i Edison. lie has the air of a mechani or more definitely", with his pecuK pallor, of a night printer. His featur are large; the brow well shaped, wit out unusual development ; the eyt light gray ; the nose irregular, and ti: mouiu displaying leeiu wuiuu mw not altogether regular. When he loci up his attention comes back slowly, n if it had been a long way off. But s comes back fully and cordially, and t' expression of the face, now that it c, be seen, is frank and prepossessing, cheerful smile chases away the gnu and somewhat weary look that bel' to it in its moments of rest. He no longer old. He has almost the a big, careless reuool-boy rele".'it ' L Lis tasks."
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