ADVERTISINGR ATBS
" • at 1 mo. mob. 6 moo Iyr.
1.60 1.76 5.54) 6.60 12.00
, ;Vo l ter n u a lar .• • . OD 3. 00 G. 60 9. 00 2114)
Three Squares . . 4.60 6.2.1 9.00 17.00 2.4.03
SiZ !kitten.. . . 11.60 17.01 25.091 40.00
Quarter Column . 19.60 22.00 40.00 00.00
Half Column . . . 20.00 40.00 03.00 110.0:
Ole Column : . ' 90.00 60,00 110 03 200.00
Prorassional Cards 61.00 per Coe per year.
.ldminlatrstor'■ and Auditor's Notices, 63.00
City Notices, 20 c la per line Ist insertion 15 gents par
ins each subsequent Insertion.
Tan lines agate oonatitute a square.
ROBERT IREDELL, JR., PUBLISHER,
ALLENiOWN. PA
Dry Goobs.
Le➢IAINTBE do It9SS,
212 North Eighth Street, Phila.
ilaye one of the f..licet . ittni chnnpent linen of ilemborg
Edging. and Ineertinne to ho toned to the city. eo Klee
their etock of WHIM 000DS, an pinto eamorice. photo.
plaid. tucked and French Dintomenice, French Mention to
eingle nod double 'natio. liwl•n 31101.. Vlctori Lewne,
bird eye and plaid Linens A aploodid Hue of the nest
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AIR°. VglAnclit. Thread, Chwoukri ll'obblu% Imitation
Crochet mad Pillow Lac°, &c
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'Low Special new. A tine ne•urtin..nt ofy. 011.11li job loin or theito goods al very
REAL AND I MITATIO ft VESTIBULE LACES.
Lace Tldleo. Lace Collar. in grent vnrlety. Lac, Sets
end Sleeve.. 'very 11..ndnome Linen Enibroldor,l Set.
French Breakfast Cape, earn goods. A most complete
stock of
GENTS' LADIES' AND CIIILDRENS'
•
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Marseilles Toilet Sets. Linen TearA. and Shirt Fronts
Especial care bad to goods saltsl.lo for 1 afoot Wear.
TO THE PUB! IC.
REMOVAL.
(FUR NEW STORE.
GUTH. & KERN,
DEALERS IN DRY GOODS,
WOULD most resrectfolly call the attention of their
friends, customers, and the public gouentlly, to the fact
that they have just removed to their newly and eleg,intly
titled up STONE BUILDINO•000 door west of their form•
er location,and Immediately adjoining the First National
Bank, being the building formerly occupied by Schreiber
Bros , where they propose to continue a
DRY GOODS BUSINESS
In all its varied branches. They have tho finest, best
and cheapest stock of GOODS ever offered to the public,
embracing everything that tho public can wish. They
would especially invite the attention of all to their line
assortment of
LADIES' DRESS GOODS
Thls department they nett, themselves to he the best
ever offered to the public of Allentown and vicinity, for
style. quality and 'cheapnessotoods of the most approved
patterns, &0., consi.tlng of
Black and Emmy Silks, Black and Fancy Silk Poplins
Black and Fancy Mohairs Blank and Fancy Alpacas,
Black and Colored SA tried Settings. Black Born
. helloes, Black Anstratian Crape, Black Pop
.
llne, Block Velveteens, Silk Velvet, Sat-
In Striped Versailles Cloth. Satin
Striped Lorne Robe, Silk Strip
ed Slobuir, Silk Figura Sol-
Man. Brocade Japanese
I=l
Ilas. Serge Wool
Plelde
Scotch Wool Plaidn, Cord acd Colored Velveteen., Eng
Bah and French Chintree, Plaid Poplion, Plaid
Cbintse“, Plaid Nainanoka, Brach°, Thlbet, He
lena, Saratoga, Vialna. Long Smock. Ni
agara and WatervlieL Long and Square
SHAWLS, in GREAT VARIETY.
r4,'"CALL and BEE.jE2
Ae they are buying strictly for cash, they flatter them
selves that they can offer great Inducements to parties
wishing to boy good Goods at raw:onside prices.
They only ask the public to give them a call end ezam•
Use their clock, and compare prices and quality. • They
defy competition.
Thankful for part favors, they will on.levor to merit a
continuance of the patronage of their old customom an
well as of all new.comers.
11111.01 GOTH)
Jan 24 em d
ANNOUNCEhIENT EXTRNORINARY !
E. S. KHMER & '8
DRY GOODS
HEAD,QUARTERS !
706 AND 797 DADILTON STREET,
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Latest Interesting Intelligence I
PRICES TO .
ASTONISH THE NATIVES!
OUR GOODS WERE BOUGHT BEFORE THE
LATE ADVANCE AND GIVE THE AD
VANTAGE TO TILE i RADE.
LAST PRICE LIST created great havoc In the
mike or 1111311 PRICED STORES. They can't Bee how
It la that wo can
Make Money and Sell Goods so Cheap
EFEID
"MAMMOTH STORES."
WE WILL TELL THEN
First. having two
thermmorn we are sthie to hey
1,,,0nda to
large lota direct fnon ane renror. and oriern,
and from.lo to :doer coot. clootoer than they , do.
Beane& our tang. , oaten enable us to milk. , ...toy, even
though ire make hot very 111110 on any one articlo •
Aod last loot not Joust, We boy oactosivoly for rv.h
sod ill,,outit all oar Lille, 'which in the oggrelinte
amounts to conolderablo.
Ro MitrepreNrnlatinns In Effort Slill'M
Prieto II rad (I,gnttic tinaretntrert
...11tterrninrd not to he lintltrsold
By An y Our Comp Mors I
DMI T AH6IPAI.d ne
Fall and Winter Dry Goods I
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OUR STOCK Is entirely too ext. , . sive to enumerate ar
ticles nod pikes. %Volutes In stock it getier.il ro
of goods usually kept In a first-class aid well regulated
store. linoleum° stock of
DRESS GOODS, SILKS, &C
otevery ponNiblo description ..d prlco
SHAWLS! SHAWLS! .SHAWLS !
PAISLEYS, BROCIIES. BLAET,
TintsEr NK
and STELLA SHAWLS
Woolens for Men's and Boys' Wear !
CLOTHS, CASHMERES. TWEEDS, SATINETS, KEN
JEANS, AC., AC.
BLANKETS.
White Drown, and Grny Matikette,
11nrlefilex "led IlortrVl-=11,::1113,,,,rie,,
Flannels, ?Meetings, Cheeks, Sc
CARPET DEPARTMENT COMPLETE 1
OIL CLOTHS.
WINDOW sII AD ES, &C.
E. S. SHIMER & CO.,
701 and 707 Hamilton St.. Allentown. P..
JOIIN E. I.ENI Z, WM. 11. WEINSIIEIMER
JOIIN SEABoLD.
JOHN E. LENTZ CO.,
SUCCESSORS TO
YOUNG & LENTZ
The firm or Yount k I, ,, rtr win 11,401, t by tnotoul
c.ototeut on Felled ri Iflth 1e72 Mr YOU on roOrlnFr.
11. Wettothrinter mu! Jobe liettbo;l, Jr , buckle t.ke. , hln
'the 11-{v firm ho. re I. hive the contlnottoco of 00
mir,,,,.g0 no Ilhrrcilp he.towe , l neon tit. , old feta They
Will toot their utmost oudenvortt to ucc inniudale their
Putrouu with prow Cum! cod iurninh
BOOTS AND SHOES •
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of the beat make and material. and will al wave have on
baud a ler, a...n.1014 of the most dentrablo etyles,
molted to do trade of Ude sectlun.
The firm of Yonne & Lentz herlnd bren dirnolred. ell
parties Ito. Med to Ihiqn rqu.i.ted to woke nettlement
between thin do to mot April int t.ext books will to.
main stn:, ”141iitto.il Either of the old pottuere In tin.
thorized to elgu lu liquidetion. ' , fob 811.0
OAIRI"E'FING4.
WILLIAMS (5 DALE,
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832 MARKET STREET, PHILADELPUIA,
°Were In CARPETS, OIL CLOTIIS, MATTI NOS. etc,
• We havejnat rpeolred for the Spriva trade a large and
tandems ansurtrnent of new and F....10Ni atylea In Urns -
sale; !Derain... Matting.. oil el.dhek. Window nb,o„,
ate.. fto.,_all of -which we a ill offer. at the low eat ca.h
lipo4, whale, We m olt. all to cull and ace In, and examine our .
: . Atli& before par tinning elsewhere.
''''''' W/LLLAMB & DALE,
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• . 192 Market St.. Philedolpb la.
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VOL. XXVI
I EMPLOY NO PEDDLERS!
I DO NOT PEDDLE MYSELF f
I HAVE NO AGENTS!
AMERICAN HOTEL,
ALLENTOWN. PA
OFFICE, NO. 10 (Near Parlor)
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Post Mice Bob 5150.
NEW YORK CITY.
°firs thow who are .kujertng from Weak
and Defective Sight, his
BRAZILIAN
PEBBLE
GLASS SPECTACLE.; !
Superior to Any Other in Use !
Sold only by
MORRIS BERNHARDT•
SPECTACLE AND OPTICAL MANUFACTURER
The .Advantages of these Spectacle° over all
others are
1. THEY CAN BE WORN WITH PERFECT
ease for nay length aliment one sitting, giving
IMlOllinhlng clearness of vision, by candle or any
other artificial light, comfort to the spectacle
wearer hitherto unknown.
• 2. 110 W TO SELECT GLASIES.-1t requires
professional I:UW.IIWe, even when a good article
is olil•red. Ifootor Bernhardt not only has the
best. Mosses that can be found In the market,
but carefully examines the eyes,and gives Indis
pensable advice Its to the proper selection of
them.
TESTIMONY OF RECOMMENDATIONS
FROM NED 147.11. NENTLEMEN PROFESSORS
OF THE HU:REST oPTIJAI,IIIO TALENT
IN A LI, ENT() N PA. poTTSV I.LR,
It'EA DING, LANCASTER, EASToN,
SCIL4 N TON R LISLE, 011.131-
BER BURG PA , 4SD FRO.
AL L TIIE pRINOIPA L
CITIES «F THE
UNITED STATES.
ETHOS. KERN.
itto:ll:3m
A i.t.ENTowN, Pa.. Jan. 22, 1472.
IT A ' , FORDS E PLEASURE TO STATE
Una I 1101, cartluily exattllt•d Doctor Bern-
Introit's collection of Glasses for the eyes, and
f lilt explanation of the manner In which he
adapts 1110111 to imperfect vision, I am fully sat
isfied that lie Thoroughly r prelientls the sci
ence of °pilot, 111141 that he is practically end
nen Ily 111(01 In the adaptation of instruments
for the t ellef of MI forms of Imperfect vision
n•ltlt.n the scope of relief without ttu operation.
I out 1,0111111t41,111 my men opinion of the Doc
tor's merits I.y the testimony of the tooth reliable
and prominent tnedh•ul men In various cities lu
the l'nllod.,Ttahes, I most cheerfully commend
hint to all trlth WllOlll 111 Y opinion may have ml)•
weight. C. J. MARTIN, M.l).
FTER A TllOllO GII LA IIN.a T 1 0Y
N
he principles upon wlelell you adapt your
Glasses to ilt•tect Ivy or Impaired vision, and a
close investigation Into your Hainls to thorough
ness lii the application Of Ihose principles to the
eye, It gives us pleasure to hear testim o ny to the
fact of ylllll . preeminence In the science of Optics
and the remarkable mall and facility with which
roil practically demonstrate yourself hi this
launch ..r.•ient hie Investigations. II is n limner
of the greatest 1110211,1 t Io those usl ug glass.•s for
the e•ye to avail themselves at the rare opportu
nity I lli•rcd them by your prrsenrr in our eity
Lave Glasses properly lluple4l In Mel rpart 'color
cases. .IN4). ROM 'c SONS, M. D.
IHA rE EXAMINED A LARGE VARIETY
of übts,,,s nuolutaetured hy Ur. M. Bernhardt, at
Berlin, Prussia, and lake nitwit pleasure In re
commending hint to all MOM' WIIO are In need of
his servlees. From the number of tertlmnululs
that I hare seen 1 nun convineed that he will lie
able to give satisfaction to all who may apply to
Yours, ete„
IT OIVES .11E GREAT I'LEANURE TO
In!ono lac Iriends that I 111'1,1111W 111 . 1111111111011
with Dr. Morris Bernhardt, in Reading, l'a., In
and there laiintlit or hint a Pair 11f lilt.
excellent glasses w 1111.11 1 .111111111,111 ixc.alrnl ser
vice unto tune r ver since 111111 I Myriiily reentn
mend him lo all who may stand 111 111,111 f 111,
seer lees. \V M. M EN N V:,
l'astor of Evan. I.Utlo•tin tit. Paul's Cht:n•h
of .11Ivntoe•u, Pai.
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31, It 1at.V11.4.11D7'—.11E.1.1t
111.14 to express to yllll the 010,11 sense orll l / 1 1).Olt 1011
1 fuel for the pc ote.sional kl ndtleas eXtl.lllll.ll to
me by wicielt with uym.ight Impaired by years
01 ttituheuttott and study, 111111 111/11 . Vlll/1011 tO
react mid write lvlth aelearwess of vision acquit] to
the 1111), , 11( yololl. May . p ,'
air honorable an
11S1 , 1111 1 111' long 'be spared that humanity may
ellitly the relent Illy skill cat one so
eminently
qualified 111 11111111 11110 111'11111 11/ maal to his
lelloNV-1111.11.
Willi 111. st a•l+hrs for your IitIVeV,S, I remain
• yours Truly, FA lls,
Pastor of Sl. John's E. Lutheran Church
Dlt. M. 11l 1171:ITT:VG
lils.leistrumpitts mw vspuchilly the Gltt,ht , ...of his
prelllll . llllllll, VaVt• hiltIN(11010V3 . 111 . 011 f his
experience unit skill as nn Oculist and Optician.
This judgment is 1 . 1111111 . 111V11 by numerous testi
lOolifillet 111 lits possession tram seientille, intelli
gent mot intluentisil men residing in ditrerent
Mutes Rini Territories of oar country. I can,
therefore, recommend him to nil who limy be
afflicted with meal{ eyes or inquired sight its n
person troll (illanlied to nflord relief by furnish
ing Melo with a Mlitillat• pail' of I:nisst s.
N. S. STItAsSIRTIMER,
Pastor of Zion's Reformed Claigret.',ll,tiOth
ALLENTOWN, Pll.,3llllllary 21,11,72,
DR. 211 ORRIS BERNII.4RDT IL 13 PUR—
ilxiled me u•lth a pair tot !thallium Penhle Mass,
- cinch Min my eyes exactly. Front personal not
perience I can cordially advlseall persons whose
natural vision requires the supplements othrt to
avail themselves of the Inictor's shill. Ile him
exhililteil to me i•rcdeulials from eminent Illy
tilehoui nod Mink, ors, twit it many of whom I 11/11
persunnlly acquainted. Ile Is eylilettlly nu Op.
Irian who huderhhuhls hls proionslon moni
thoroughly.. J. W. WOoll,
Pastor Presbyterian Church•
ALLENToWN, Pa., Jatiattury 21.1:172.
DR. DERYHARD'i ,s CR Ys7'ALS ARE UN ,
doubted I. very clear ant perfect,:ltlit Ills system
of adjusting then, to various CotillitlMlS of the
ere set•lns to fully jlistl ly the very nattering tes
ti:not:Mk he Las received front lending Physl-
Maus and others in various,: Patted States.. WM. It. (MIES,
Rector of Grace Church.
HAT'ING HAP ARLHSONALINTbJRVIEW
with Dr. Ilex tiliarill, and Isaac fully ciinvinced
Of eminent skill us nn liptichia and 1101111111,
I 111111 111011,111111 111 00111111o11,1111g 111111 in his pro
ca....lanai capacity to all who may need his ser
vices. NII s S. CSRPENTER, M. D.
We cordially endorse the above:
D. \V. BLAND. M. D.
OEO. W. DROWN, D.
A. 11. II A LitEItsTADT. M. D.
• W. SCHENCK, Pastor first Presbyterian
Church.
.11LIIN I. PEARCE, Pastor M. E. Church, Potts..
vl Ile. Pa.
DEO. W. SMILEY, Pastor second Presbyterian
Church, Pottsville,
Tonthnott tats slmllar to the above may he Seem
at ul. Iternhardt's attire from the most reliable
and well-known gentlemen of the United States
among whom are:
Horatio Heyntour, ex•Ciovernor of NOW York
11. E. Fenton, ea-finv, of New York.
A. 0. Curtin, ex.llor . . of Pennaylvania.
It B. Hay, Citiveruor of Ohio.
o.l'. Morton, ex-Onv. f Indiana.
Alexander Yummy, ex• Clo•. of Minnesota.
Henry A Swift. ex-htov. of Jiluttegota
Richard lama. ex tiox. of
IL M. Patten, ex-Ottv. of Alxhanis.
Jn..nph E. Brown. ex•flov.of Georgia,
JOlllllll.l Worth, ex-Oon ...f North Carolina
John Oillabotter, ox•Oox. of Alabama.
JALIIVI L. Orr, ex•Oov. of South Carolina.
READING, PA.. March 27. 1& 1 P 1
MARTIN LUTHER. N. D.'
C. P. Ide(AULEY, Pastor of the 2.lDeformed Chttrob,
Roldsno. Pa.
JOSBPIICOBLIINTZ, 141.
,t. hiuttitAq Nvkif)%lAti.M.
MA:WELLY N BEAVER, M. D.
O. D. BUNTER. 11. I)
R.. 1. RICH sltDq. Pastor of Presbyterian China.
DEN. SClltilOCKßit, Pastor of Nt James' Lutheran
Church, Reaulac Pa. . • r
bib•.:• -- '..•••lli . 4itif+
ESE
dgct .114 4 0.
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CRYSTAL
TRADE MARK.
EUMEIMI=IIIMMIE
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EIMEME!
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LANCASTER, PA., May MOS*.
Continnatto ot Dr. Bernhardt's
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JOHN 'ATLEE. M D.
HENRY CARPR'TER, M D.
11. R. DURLENDERO. M D.
' E GREENWALD. I) D.. Pastor Church of Holy Teen'
to, Lancaster. Pa.
EASTON, PA., February, la, 1969.
TR AILI. OrIEEN, M D.
C.O JENNINOs. M D.
M D.
EDW .111) hl D.
J it JUNKIE. M D
KAMII RI. SA.:, DT, 31 D.
C 11 EDO AR. l'netor of Reformed (Reach) Unerek.
EDMUND RELFOUR, Pastor of et. John's Latherao
Church, Eastou, Ea.
SCRANTON, PA., Oct. 31, ISMI
DF.NJ CI M D.
11 A h(111110 , .. MD.
Y tsET, M D.
H L
ORACE ADD, MD
CIIAMDERSIIIIRG, PA., Juno 7.3, 1871.
A II KENSENY. M D.
J I, NUFsSRIDIT r. M D.
Wni II HOYLE, M D.
RICIIAA AI D.
JOAN MoNTONIRRY, M D.
RA o LANE. 01 D.
I' the let Reformed reareh.
LUTII ER A 0. , TWA I.D. Peewrur let Lothersu Church
J A CRAW FORD ' , maur of the Falling ,pring Webb?'
terlan Church
SCHENCK BID.
CARLISLE, I'A., Juno 18, 1809.
A J DERMA:Y. ID D.
WMW DA LE, MD.
I' D •
REV C P WINO. Paetor of the First Presbyterian
Church.
WMII EVERF.TY, Rector of Of John's Church.
JOEL SWAIITZ. Pastor of the Lutheran Church
(IINSITI.TATION FREE.
Offlco hours from flu m to 6 D m•
N. IL-O%IIIK 111 eIIIIBIOI.IiIII elsewhere, Dr. Darn•
herds will um remain here but for a short titan only.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
HOLLIDAYSBURG, PA., . SEMINARY,
Rev. JOSEPH WAUGH; Principal.
SPRING TERM BEGINS APRIL Ist.
Snecesetul, Thorough, Economical,
The ',Went end maid reliable I netiintlon fo• obtalaleit a
Mercantile Etincliti•n. Frantic:lll..lnel. moo an [Untrue
torn. For information, write for a Circular to P. DUFF
SE SONS, I•itt.ltligh, I'a.
Cheap 'Farms. Free Homes
ON THE LINE. OP THE.
UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD
A LAHto 4.IIANT OP
12 000,000 ACRES
REST FARMING AND MINERAL LANES IN AMERICA
3,000,000 Acres in Nebraska.
ix THB
GREAT PLATTE VALLEY,
TH7 11 - 8 r
GARDEN OF
NOW FOR SALE!
These lends are In the control portion of the United
State, on the 41,4 degree of North Lotttudo, the control
line of the great femnerate 70111.1 of ho American Conti.
net.t. and tor grain grow tng and stock 1 . 111111[11( uneurn N
eed by any of the Cooed Ntht. x
CHEAP : EU I N PRICE, mote faro eble terms glven,snd
mon, convenient to market con be found elsewhere.
FREE IIOMESTRA ON FOR ACTUAL SETTLERS.
Tile ASST LOCATIONS FOR SETTLERS,
ROLDIERA ENTITLED TO A IIONEATII•to OP 16C ACRE.
Free Passes to Parrhomers of Land.
Send for • be new De-criptive emphi.t.with new nisns
publhed in Eumlie
wade k d tree everywherh. barman. ewedisb and Danish
A.e..
dre. O. P. DAVIS.
Land Commissioner. U. P. IL Co
N ..
°melba. eb.
EXTRAORDINARY IMPROVEMENTS
CABINET ORGANS
The MAFON SI HAMM,. 00.11/01C0.113.1 10 C1Mi1i.n ....C.
Inthoduction oh improvemeuie of much more thee
rdhoury hhterehht. These me
REED AND PIPE CABINET ORGANS, -
Itc the only yocceie.ful combination of REAL PIPER
lb reedy ever nt ale;
DAY'S TRANSPOSING KEY•BOARI"4 ._
which can be Instantly flowed to th. right or left. ailing
ice the p icii, nr Wiwi...tilt. the key. For drawings
and flencriptions, Pe Circa fan
NEW AND ELEGANT STYLES OF
Double Reed Cabinet Organs,
at 040. +l3t and owl,. Cnneiderinp eqwwtty,
rpm,. and Thorn,' gh S. ei W o rkourtteltip,
thtl, 11.” per than ezny before offered
he SI Astie 3 liAbll.l3Orcgoi. arch knowicagod TIE T,
god froin ri tr ordiu ry fn for manufacture this
romp .ny c.f. afford. sad now undertake to sell at prices
wilten mod, them
lINQUESTIONABLY CHEAPEST.
Porn OrTAVIi °ROA,. •YT enrh• FWVP. OrTAVO ORO al.
41 0 1023 A nptrkt tl.l With Ihree pelv reede SIJJ end
upwpril, Forty xty/tty, tot to 41rOi each.
VW 11.1.1•MTRATRn • ATA Lour , . huh r..TIMONIAT. CM-
With °PluitFlin URETHAN ONb THOUSAND
MUSIIIANS. sent free.
MASON & lIAML:N ORO AN CO
154 Tremont !street, Bold.
PORTABLE SODA FOUNTAINS.
SW. 850. 575 and $lOO.
GOOD, DER 111 LE AND CHEAP.
Shipped ready for Um.
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J. W. crtAintAN & Co., Madison, Ind
44 - SEND FOR CIRCULAR.-V 4
(Incorporitte(l 1560.)
Columbia Fire Insurance Co.
OFFICERS AND DP , ECTOR B —9. R. DFITWILRg.
Pres't ; 11. WitsoB Vlss.Fros't ; THOMAS,
Trsss ; J V Seer r 8 S DIITWILRR.
RAM WILSON, Brat CRASH, WM PATTON, lona R
0•ROSI A. 11. S. .TACOS S. NTHINP..IAMRR
NrOOOIIORR, :RO. BooLlt W. 0 CARR. gllO4 F. Eras.
.G OIN sttrara RR. 11. B ESRCIK. For Insurance or Ages
cies, address
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PRUEATIFF, SWY.Coln.bik. P*
Aran AS , II RI :in YOI'E LIFE. examine the new
•ullei. Sari , irs plan. jtot Introdoeed be the
1:011 , TABLY. LIFE A,StIItANCE Y OF New
by whirl) an endowment policy is granted •t
eliont bnif rated
nd or In years. I , 4'per cont. of premlumd returned.
1R"iRl" ..
New business. 1071 441 ''f , oooo, largest In world
Kelluble 410 000 001 100 me 4 8 . 000 . 030
Agents W..nte.l everywhere..
Addres*.
I 1., Beale Ell. General dean ,
0 2 23 CHESTNUT STREPT. Philadelphla.
TILE remote Soldier! Illnoexed ;
, The Few?ls SoWI,. The Thrilling Aileen
, or
lure Experience. Mid k.l.lqll.llnr n women or SPY.HCOIIe
end Nur., lu Cxmpe, Bottle Fields end lionpilele, 12
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From the Atlantic) Monthly,
Of course that was not his name, Even in
the State of Maine, where it is stlll.a custom
to maim a child for life by christening him
Arioch or Shadrach or Ephraim, nobody
would dream of calling a boy "Quite So." It
was merely a nickname which we gave him
in camp ; but it stuck to him with such burr
like tenacity, and is BO inseparable from my
memory of him, that I do not think I could
write definitely of John Bladburn if I were to
call hint anything but." Quite So."
It was one night shortly after the first bat
tle of Bull Run. The Army of the Potomac,
shattered, stunned, and forlorn, was back in
Its old quarters behind the earthworks. The
melancholy line of ambulances bearing our
wounded to Washington was not done creep
ing over Long Bridge; the blue smocks and the
gray still lew in wind rows on the field of
Manassas; and the gloom that weighed
down our hearts was like the fog that stretch
ed along the bosom of the Potomac and in
folded the valley of the Shenandoah. A driz
zting rain that set In at twilight, and,growing
bolger with the darkness, was beating a die
ma i tattoo on our tent,—the tent of Mess 0
Company A, —fit Regiment N. Y.
Voatn
teers. Our mess, consisting originally of eight
men, was reduced to four. Little Billy, as
one of the boys grimly remarked,had conclud
ed to remain at Manassas ; Corporal Steele
we had to leave at Fairfax Court-House, shot
through the hip ; Hunter and Suydam we had
said good by to that afternoon. "Tell john•
ny Reb," says Hunter, lifting up the leather
side piece of the ambnlace, " that I'll be back
again as soon as I get a new leg." But Suy
dam said nothing ; he only unclothed his eyes
languidly and smiled farewell to us.
The four of us who were left alive and un
hurt that shameful July day sat gloomingly
smoking our brierwood pipes, thinking our
thoughts, and listening to the rain pattering
against the canvas. That and the occasional
whine of a hungry cur, - foraging on the out
skirts of the camp for a stray bone,alone broke
the silence, save when a vicious drop of rain
detazhed itself meditatively from the ridge
pole of the tent and fell upon the wick of our
tallow candle, making it "cuss," as Ned
Strong described it. Thecandle was in the
midst of one of its most profane fits when
Blakely, knocking the ashes from his pipe and
addressing no one in particular, but giving
breath, unconscio-sly as it were, to the result
of hie cogitathins, observed that " it was con
siderable of a fizzle."
" The on to Richmond' . business ?"
Yea."
" I wonder what they'll do about it over I
yonder," said Curtis, pointing over his right
shoulder. By " over yonder" he meant the
North iu general and New England especially.
Curtis was a Boston boy, and his sense of
locality wits so strong that,during all his wan
derings in Virginia, I do not believe there was
a moment, day or night, when he could not
have made a bee-line for Faneuil Hall.
"Do about it ?" cried Strong. " They 'II
make about two hundred thousand blue flan
nel trousers and send them along, each pair
with a man in the short men in the
long trousers and all the tall men in the short
ones," he added, ructuliy contemplating his
own leg-gear, which reached scarcely to his
ankles.
"That's so," said Blakely. "Just now
when I was tackling the commissary for an
extra candle, I saw a crowd of new fellows
drawing blankets."
" I say there, drop that I" cried Strong.
" All right, sir, did n't know It was you," he
added hastily, seeing it was Lieutenant Haines
who had thrown back the flap of the tent and
let in a gust of wind and rain that threatened
the most serious bronchial consequences to
our discontented tallow dip.
" You're to bunk in here," said the lieuten
ant, speaking to someone outside. The some
one stepped in, and Haines vanished in the
darkness.
When Strong had succeeded in restoring the
candle to consciousness, the light fell upon a
tall, shy-looking man of about thirty-flve,with
long, hay-colored beard and mustache,
upon
which the rain-drops stood in clusters, like the
night-dow on patches of cobweb in a meadow.
It was an honest face, with unworldly sort of
blue eyes, that looked out from under the
broad visor of the Infantry cap. With a def
erential glance towards us, the new-comer un
strapped his knapsack, spread his blanket over
it, and sat down unobtrusively.
"Rather damp night out," remarked Blake
ly, whose strong hand was supposed to be
conversation.
" Quite so," replied the stranger, not curt
ly, but pleasantly, and with an airas if he had
said all there was to be said about it.
" Come from the North recently ?" inquired
Blakely, after a pause.
Yes."
"From any place in particular?"
" Maine."
" People considerably stirred up down
there ?" continued Blakely, determined not
to give up.
" Quite so."
Blakely threw a puzzled look aver the tent,
and seeing Ned Strong on the broad grin,
Frowned severely. t-trong instantly assumed
au abstracted air and began humming softly,
"I wish I was In Dixie."
" The State of Maine," observed Blakely,
with a certain defiance of manner not at all
nee ssary iu discussing a geographical ques
tion, "is a pleasant State." ,
" summer," suggested the stranger.
"In summer, I mean," returned Blakely
with animation, thinking lie had broken the
ice. " Cold us blazes in winter, though,—
ain't it?"
The new recruit merely nodded.
Blithely eyed the man homicidally for a mo
ment, and then, smiling one of those smiles 01
simulated gayety which the novelists inform
us are more tragic than tears, turned upon
bim with withering irony.
"Trust you left the old folks pretty comfor
table?"
" Dead."
" The old folks dea'
"Quite so."
Blithely made a sudden dive for his blanket,
tucked it around him with painful precision,
and was heard no more.
Just then the bugle sounded " lights ou',"
—bugle answering. bugle in far-off camps.
When our not elaborate night-toilets were
complete, Strong threw somebody else's old
boot at the candle with infallible aim, and
darkness took possession of the tent. bled,
who lay on my left, presently reached over
to me, and whispered, " I say, our friend
' quite so' is a garrulous of boy ! He'll talk
himself to death some of these odd Vines, if lie
isn't careful. How he did run on I"
The next morning, when I opened my eyes,
the new member of Mess 0 was sitting on his
knapsack, combing his blond beard with a
horn comb. He nodded pleas ittly to me,
and to each of the boys as they woke up, one
by one. Blakely did not appear disposed. to
renew the animated conversation of the pre
vious night ; but while he was gone to make
a requisition for what the Imagination of
Shakespeare himself could not accept as col
fee, Curtis ventured to ask the man his name.
" Blandburn, John," was the reply.
"'that's rattier a long name for every-day
use," put in Strong. "If it wouldn't hurt
your feelings, I'd like to call you Quito So,—
for short. Don't say no,lf you don't like it.
Is it agreeable ?"
Blailburn gave a little laugh, all to himself,
seemingly, and was about to say, "Quite so,"
when lie caught at the words, blushed like a
girl, and nodded a Bunny assent to Strong.
From that day until the end the sobriquet
clung to him.
The disaster at Bull Run was followed, as
the reader knows, by a long period of master
ly inactivity, so far as the Army of the Poto
mac was concerned. McDowell, a good sol
dier, but unlucky, retired to Arlington Heights
and McClellan, who had distinguished him
sell in Western Virginia, tooksommand of-the
forces in front of Washington, and bent his
energies to reorganizing the demoralized
troops. it was a dreary time to the people of
the North, who looked fatuously from week
to week for "the •fall of Richmond " ; it was
a s id, dreary Imo to the denizens of that vast
city of tents and forte which stretched In a
semicircle before the beleaguered Capitol,—so
teolous and soul-wearing a time, that the hard
ships of forced marches and the horrors of bat
tle became-desirable things to them.
Roll call morning and evening, guard-duty,
dress.parades, an occasional reconnoissance,
dominos, wrestling-matches, and such rude
games as could be carried on in camp, made
up the sum of our lives. The arrival of the
mall with letters and papers from home was
the event of the day. We noticed that kllad
burn neither wrote nor received any letters..
When the rest of the boys wore scribbling
away for dear life, with drum heads and knap
sacks and cracker-boxes for writing-desks, ho
would sit serenely smoking his pipe, but look
ing out on us through rings of smoke with a
face expressive of the tenderest interest.
"Look here, Quito do," strong would say.
"the mall•bag closes in half an hoar. Ain't
O 6 Broadway. N. Y
QUITE 80
111 T. D. ALDRICH,
you going to write 4"
"I believe not to•day," Bladburn would re.
ply, as Win bad written yesterday, or would
write tomorrow ; but be never wrote.
He had become a great favorite with us,and
with all the officers of the regiment. Ile talk
ed less than any man I over knew, ',tut there
was nothing gloomy or sullen In Ms reticence.
It was sunshine,—warmth and brightness,
but no voice. Unassuming and modest to
the verge of shyness, be impressed every one
as a man of singular pluck and nerve.
"Do you know," said Curtis to me one day,
"that that fellow Quite So is clear grit, and
when we come to close quarters with our
Palmetto brethren over yonder, he'll do some
thing devilish ?"
"H hat makes you think so ?"
"Well, nothing quite explainable ; the ex
asperating coolness of the man, as much as
anything. This morning the boys were teas
ing Muffin Fan," (a small mulatto girl who
used to bring muffins into comp three times a
week, at the mil of her life 1) "and Jemmy
Blunt of Company K—you know him—was
rather rough on the girl, when Quite So, who
had been reading under a tree, shut one finger
lu his book, walked over to where the boys
were skylarking, and with a smile of a juven
ile angel on his face lifted Jemmy out of that
and set him down gently in front of his own
tent. There Blunt.sat speechless, staring at
Quite So, who was back again under the tree
p• gging away at his little Latin grammar."
That Latin grammar ! fie always had it,
about him, reading it on turning over its dogs.
eared pages atodti interval and in ont.of the.
. way places.. Half a dozen times a day lie
w. uld draw stout from the bosom (Whig blouse
which had taken the shape of the hook just
over the left breast, look at it as if to assure
himself it was all right, and then put the thing
back. At night the volume lay beneath his
pillow. The first thing in the morning,before
be was well awake, his hand would go grop
ing Instinctively under his knapsack in search
of it.
A devastating curiosity seized upon us boys
concerning that Latin grammar, for we had
d iscovered the nature of the book. Strong
wanted to steal it one night, but concluded
nut to. "In the first place," reflected Strong,
"I haven't the heart to do it, and in the
next place I haven't.the moralcourage. Quite
So would placidly break every bone in my
body." And I believe Strong was not fur out
of the way.
Sometimes I was vexed with myself for al•
lowing this tall, simple-hearted country fellow
to puzzle me so much. And yet, was he a
simple-hearted country fellow? City bred he
certainly was not ; but his manner, in spite of
his awkwardness, had an indescribable air
of refinement. Now and then, too, he drop
ped a word or a phrase that showed his famil
iarity with unexpected lines of reading.
"The other day,"sald Curtis,with the slight
est elevation of eyebrow, "he had the cheek
to correct my . Latin for me." In short, Quite
So was a daily problem to the members of
Mess 6. Whenever lie was absent, and Blake
ly and Curtis and Strong and I got together
in the tent, we discussed him, evolving vari
ous theories to expiate why lie never wrote to
anybody and why nobody ever wrote to him.
Had the man committed some terrible crime,
and fled to the army to hide his guilt? Blake
ly suggested that he must have murdered
"the old folks." What did lie mean by eter
nally coining that tattered Latin grammar?
And was his name Blariburn, anyhow ? Even
his imperturbable an.iability became suspi
cious. And then his frightful reticence I If
was the victim of any deep grief or crush
ing calamity, why dldn't.he seem unhappy ?
What business had he to be cheerful ?
. . .
" It's my opinion," said Strong, " that he's
a rival Wandering Jew; the original Jacobs,
you know, was a dark fellow."
Blakely inferred from something Bladburn
had said, orsomething he hadn't said,—which
was more likely—that he had been a school
master at some period of his life.
" Schoolmaster be hanged I" was Strong's
comment; " can you fancy a schoolmaster go
ing about conjugating baby verbs out or a
dratted spelling-book f No, Quite So has evi
dently been a— a— Blest if L can imagine
what he's been !"
Whatever John Bladburn had been, he was
a lonely man. Whenever f want a type of
perfect human isolation, I shall think of him,
as he was in those days, moving remote, self
contained, and alone in the midst of two hun
dreo thousand men.
The Indian summer, with its infinite beauty
and tenderness, came like a reproach that
year to Virginia. The foliage, touched here
and there with prismatic tints, drooped mo
tionless in the golden haze. The delicate Vir
ginia crisper was almost minded to put forth
4 scarlet buds again. No wonder the lovely
phantom—this dusky Southern slater of the
pale northern June—lingered not long with
us, but, filling the once peaceful glens and
valleys with her pathos stole away rebuke
fully before the savage enginery of man.
The preperstions that had been going on
for months in arsenals and foundries at the
North were nearly completed. For weeks
past the air had been filled with rumors of an
advance•; but th.-- rumor of today refuted the
rumor of yesterday, and the Grand Army did
not move. llelntzelman's corps was constant
ly folding; its tents like the Arabs, and as si
lently stealing away; but somehow it Was al
ways in the same placer' the next morningr
One day, at length, orders came down for our
brigade to move.
'• We're going to Richmond, boys 1" elm
ed Strong, thrusting his head in at the tent;
and we all cheered and waved our caps like
mad. You see, Big Bethel and Bull Run and
Ball's Bluff hadn't taught us any better sense.
Rising abruptly from the plateau, to the left
of our encampment, was a tall bill coveredd
with a stunted growth of red-oak, persimmon,
and chestnut. The night before we struck
tents I climed up to the crest to take dparting
hunk at a spectacle which custom had not been
able to rob of its enchantment. There, at my
feet, and extending miles and miles away, lay
the camps of the Grand Ai my, with its camp
fires reflected luridly against the sky. Thou
sanys of lights were twinkling in every di
rection, some nestling in the valleys, some
like fire-flies beating their wings and palpitat
ing among the trees, and others stretching in
parallel lines and curves like the street lamps
of a city.. Somewhere, far off, a hand was
playing, at Intervals it seemed ; and now and
then, nearer to, a silvery strain from a bugle
shot sharply up through the night, and seemed
to lose itself like a rocket among the stars,—
•
the patient utroubled Wars. Suddenly a hand
was laid upon my arm.
"I'd like to'say a word to you," saidßlad•
burn.
With a little start of surprise, I made room
or him on the fallen true where I was seated.
" I mayn't get another chance," he said.
" You end the boys have been very kind to
me, Kinder than I deserve ; but sometimes I've
fancied that my not, saying anything about
myself had given you the idea that all was not
right in my past. I want to say that I came
down to. Virginia with a clean record."
" We never doubted it in our hearts, had.
burn." •
"If I didn't write home." he continued,
" it was because I hadn't any home, neither
kith nor kin. When I said the old folks were
dead, I said it. Am I boring you ? If I
thought I was—"
" No, Bladburn. I have often wanted you
to talk to me about yourself, not from Idle
curiosity. I trust, but because I liked you that
rainy night when you came to camp, and have
gone on liking you ever since. This isn't too
much to say, when Heaven only knows how
soon I may be past saying it or you listening
to it."
"That's it," said Bladburn§ hurriedly,
"that's why I want to talk with yon. I've
a fancy that I sha'n't dome out of our first bat.
tle."
The words gave me a queer start, for I had
been trying several days to throw off a simi
lar presentiment concerning him,—a foolish
presentment that grew out of a dream.
"In cas anything of that Id td tens up,"
he continued, "I'.l like you to havo my Latin
grammar here,—you've seen me reading It.
You might stick it away in a bookcase ' for the
sane ofold times. It goes against me to think
ofit falling into rough hands or being kicked
about camp and trampled under foot."
Ile was drumming softly with his fingers
on the volume In the bosom of his blouse.
"I didn't count to speak of this to a living
soul," he went on, motioning me not to an•
swer him ; "but something took hold of me
tonight and made me follow ynu up here.
Perhaps if I told you all, you would be the
more willing to look after the little book In
case it goes ill with me. IN hen the war broke
out I was teaching school down In Maine, in
the same village where my father was school
master before me.. The old man when he
died left me quite alone. I lived pretty much
by myself, having no interests outside of the
district school, which seemed in a manner met
p e rsonal property. Eight years ago last
spring new pupil was brought to the
school, a slight slip of a girl, with a sad kind
of face and quiet ways. Perhaps it was be.
cause she wasn't very strong, and perhaps be ,
cause abs wasn't used over well by those who
had clurge of her, or perhaps Was lacunae
my life was lonely, that my heart warmed to
the child. It all seems like a dream now,
since that April morning when little Mary
stood in front of my desk with her pretty eyes
looking down bashfully and her soft hair fall.
ing over her face. One day I looked up, and
six years have gone by,—as they go by In
dreams,—and among the scholars Is a tall girl
of sixteen, with serious womanly eyes which
I. cannot trust myself to look upon. Tlie old
life Las coma to an end. The child has Le
conte a woman and can teach the master now.
So help me Heaven, I didn't know that I lov
ed her until that day I
•'Long after the children had gone home I
sat in the school-room with my face resting
on my hands. There was her desk, the after
noon shadows falling across it. It never
looked empty and cheerless before. I went
and stood by the little chair, as I had stood
hundreds of times. On the desk was a pile
of books, ready to be taken away, and among
the rest a small Latin grammar which we had
studied together. What little despairs and
triumphs and happy hours were associated
w ith it! I took it up curiously, as if it were
some precious dead thing, and turned over the
pages, and could hardly Bee them. Turning
the pages, idly so, I came to a leaf on which
something was written with ins, inn familiar
girlish hand. It was only the words 'Dear
John,' through which she bad drawn two
hasty pencil lines—l wish she hadn't drawn
those lines I" added Bladburn, under his
breath.
He was silent for a minute or two, looking
off towards the camps, where the lights were
fading out one by one.
"I had no right to go and love Mary. I
was twice her age, an awkward, unsocial man
that would have blighted her youth. I was
as wrong as wrong can be. But I never
meant to tell her. I locked the grammar in
my desk and the secret in my heart for a year.
I couldn't bear to meet her in the village, and
kept away from every place where she was
likely to lie. Then she came to me, and sat
down at my feet penitently, just as she used
to do when she was a child, and asked what
she bad done to anger me ; and then, Heaven
forgive me ! I told her all, and ask , d her if
she could say with her lips the words she had
written, and she nestled in my arms all a
trembling Ike a bird and said them over and
over again.
" When Mary's family heard °four engage
ment, there was trouble. They looked higher
for Mary than a middleaged schoolmaster. No
blame to them. They forbade me the house,
her uncles ; but we met in the village and at
the neighbors' houses. and I was happy, know•
ing she loved me Matters were In this state
when the war came on. I had a strong call
to look after the old ling, and I hung my head
that day when the company raised in our vil.
lage marched by the school-house to the rail.
road station • but I couldn't tear myself away.
About this t ime the minister's son, who had
been away to college, came to the village. Ile
met Mary here and there, and they became
great friends. He was a Pkely fellow, near
tier own age, and it wris natural they should
like one another. Sometimes I winced at
seeing him made free of the home from which
I was shut out ; then I would open the gram
mar at the leaf where' Dear John' was writ
ten up in the corner, and my trouble was gone.
Mary was sorrowful and pale these days, and
I think her people were worrying her.
" It was one evening two or three days be
fore we got the news of Bull Run. I had gone
down to the cemetery to trim the spruce hedize
set round the old man's lot, and was just
stepping into the enclosure, when I heard
voices from the opposite side. One was
Mary's, and the other I knew to be young
Marston's, the minister's son. I didn't mean
to listen, but what Mary was saying struck
me dumb. We ma never meet again, she
was saying . in a Wild way. We must say good.
by here, forever,—good-by, good by! And I
could hear her sobbing. Then, presently, she
said, hurriedly, No, no; my hand, not my
lips I Then it seemed he kissed her hands,
and the two parted, one going towards the
parsonage, and the other out by the gate near
where I stood.
"I don't know how long I stood them, but
The night dews had wet me to the skin when
I stole out of the graveyard and across the
road to the school-house. I unlocked the
door, and took the Latin grammar from the
desk and hid it in my bosom. There was not
a sound nor a light anywhere as I walked out
of the village. And now," said Btadburn,
rising suddenly from the tree-trunk, "If the
little book ever falls in your way, won't you
see that it comes to no harm, for my sake, and
for the sake of the little woman who was true
to me and didn't love me ? Wherever she Is
tonight, God bless her I"
As we descended to camp with our arms
resting on each other's bliouldpr, the watch
fires were burning low in the valleys and alone
the It I sides, and as far as the eye could reach
the silent tents lay bleaching - in the moonlight.
. We Imagined that the throwing forward of
our brigade was the initial movement of a
general advance of the army ; but that, as the
reader will 'einem er, did not take place mail
the fellowb g March. The Confederates had
fallen back to Centreville without firing a shot,
and the National troops were in possession of
Lewinsvillo, Vienna, and Fairfax Court•
House: Our new position was nearly identical
with that which we had occupied on tic night
previous to the battle of Bull Run,—on the
old turnpike road to Manassas, where the
enemy was supposed to be in great fierce With
a field glass we timid see the Rebel pickets
moving in a strip of woodland on our right,
and morning and evening we heard the spite.
ful 'roll of their enare•drunts.
Those pickets soon became a nuisance to us.
Hardly a night passed but they fired upon our
outposts, so far with no harmful result; but
after a while It grew to be a serious matter.
The Rebels would crawl out on all-fours from
the wood into a field covered with underbrush
and lie there in the dark for ho. rs, waiting
for a shot. Then out men took to the rill -
pits,--pits ten or twelve feet long by four or
five deep, with the loose earth banked up a
few inches high on the exposed sides. All the
pits bore names, more or less felicitous, by
which they were known to their tiansient
tenants. One was ca led Pei per Box,'
another "Una. Sam's Well," another "The
ReihTrap," and another, I am constrained to
say, was named after a not to he mentioned
tropical locality. Though tills rude sort of
nomenclature predominated' there was no
lack of softertitles, such as "Fortress Matilda"
and "Castle Mary," and one bud, though un
iotentionally,.a literary flavor to it, "Blair's
Grave,'' which was not popularly Considered
as reflecting unpleasantly on Nat Blair, Who
had assisthed in making the excavation.
• Sotoe of the . regiment had discovered a field
of late corn in the neighborhood, and used to
boil a few ears every day, while it lasted, for
the boys detailed on the night picket. The
core cobs were always scrupulously preserved
and mounted on the parapets of the pits,
Whenever a Rebel shot carried away one of
these barbette guns', there was swearing in that
particular trench. Strong, who was very
sensitive to this kind of disaster, was com•
plaining bitterly one morning, because Itched
lost three "pieces" the night before.
"There's Quite So, now," said Strong,
"when a Minie.ball comes ping! and knocks
one of his guns to finders, he merely smiles,
and doesn't at all see the degradation of the
thing."
Poor Bladburn ! As I watched hint day by
day going about his duties, in his shy:cheery
way, with a smile for r very one and not an
extra word for ahybody. it was hard to he.
lieve he was the same mon who, that night
before we broke camp by the Potomac, bad
pourd out to me the story of his love and sor
row in words that burned irriny memory.
While Strong was speaking, Blakely lifted
aside the flap of the tent and looked in on us.
"Boys, Quite So was hurt last night,"
he said, with a white tremor to his lip.
" What !"
" Shot on picket."
" Why, lie was in the pit next to mine,"
cried Strong.
• Badly hurt ?"
"Badly hurt."
I know he was ; I need not have asked the
question. He never meant to go back to New
England I
Blardburn was lying on the stretcher in the
hospital tent. The surgeon had knelt down
by him, and was carefully cutting away the
bosom of his blouse.
,The little Latin gram
mar, stained and torn, slipped, and fell to the
floor. Bladburn gave me a quick, furtive
glance. I picked up the book, aud as I placed
It in his band, the chilly fingers CiOSCd softly
over mine. He was sinking - fast. In a few
minutes the surgeon finlahed his examlnr don.
When he rose to his feet there were tears on
the weather-beaten cheeks. He was a rough
outside, but a tender heart.
"My poor lad," he blurted out, " It's no
use. If you've anything to say, say It now,
for you've nearly done with this world."
, Then Bladburn lifted his eyes slowly to the
surgeon, and the old smile fitted over his face
as ho murmured.
"Quite so."
A PLEASANT STORY.
It was a cottage. Don't tell melba "don't
know. Haven't I been there to gather roses
and feat on the strawberries I No ! it wasn't
a cottage ornee—there was nothing Freuchi
fled about it. It was purely American, and
harmonized sweetly with the • Alellghtful
scenery. No lit hadn't a flat roof, nor a por
tico; nothing at ell of the kind. But then it
had rose vines running all over the windows,
and whole colonies of wrens that built their
nests and sang beneath its leaves. To the
right was a field of clover, red with blossoms;
on the left was an orchard whence every wind
scattered a snowy shower of bloom ; in front
was a green lawn, shaded. with some massive
walnut trees: and to the rear opened a long
grass land through which cows walked every
morning to their pasture beyond, and return
by the same way at night.
I knew well enough to whom this cottage
belonged. No, it wasn't to a school teacher,
nor a preacher, nor an author—no such thine!
It was built by the hand of him who owned
it, and lived in it, and I had always admired
Its excellent taste In blending the useful with
the beautiful, though I h d never seen him,
my visits having always been made to his
wife, and during his absence. I had heard
enough to make me intensely curious to see
him; for not a female tongue in the neighbor
hood approved of his wife's choice.
"V% hat is the matter with him ?" I asked,
"is lie immoral?"
"Not that I know of," was the rejoinder ;
"but to tell the truth, Dolly, he's insufferably
ugly—his face is all scarred and cicatrized, I
should think by fire, and you know it always
makes me nervous to look at any hing of the
kind."
"Poor man I perhaps he got burned in res
cuing some child or feeble woman from the
flames," I said.
"Don't know; never heard ; never made
inquiries i you know they only came to live
in this neighborhood last summer, and I never
dared ask her what disfigured him, but I wish
you would—oh, I should like to know !"
"I am considerably acquainted with Mrs.
Winslow," I replied, "I thought of calling
upon her this morning ; perhaps slie will tell
me without my asking."
"Do I that's a dear good Dolly 1" •
And I did.
The whole atmosphere seemed redolent
with music and fragrance; I couldn't tell why
all the birds had taken i' into their heads to
sing, warble and build their nests there ; and
I didn't know why it was that the messes,
buttercups, violets and daisies, should preier
that place to any other ; but they seemed to,
judging from the profusion in whirl, they
grew.
The whole prospect was delightfully rural
and picturesque, and over all lingered an in
fluence of dreamy quietude and repose.
A narrow footpath, crooked as footpaths
always are , wound along through the lawn,
beneath the shadows of a giant walnut, and
by this I approached, entered the little gate
and uscended the graveled walk, bordered
by beds of flouters, to the door. It was open
and I went in.
Alone—a serene and peaceful bush rested
within. The balmy wind nestled in the
wreaths of snowy drapery hanging at the
window, where great white and red roses
bowed their graceful heads and the warm,
rich sunlight came in and lay in bright bars
of radiance upon the Boor.
Not quite al ,, ne either—a cradle was there;
and it required no conjuring to tell that. the
cradle had an inmate—a self•dignilled,thouuht
ful, imperturbable little baby, whose quiet
calmness I could not quite understand. It
was wide awake, and its great blue eyes
were staring with infant persistence at
something I couldn't. tell what; then
they turned upon me, and I returned the
gaze. But it made no difference ; the
baby had not a foul or evil thought to hide;
it was not conscious of a sin in word or deed;
hence there came no blush to that delicately
rounded cheek ; no falling to that calm quiet
eye, limpid as a lake In summer, serene as the
heaven in June.
There was a rustle and flutter of mustin,the
sound of a light springy step, the glimpse of
a tairy form and Mrs. Winslow stood before
me. She was not very beautiful but sparkling
and vivacious, with a glow of health on her
cheek and its tight in her eye.
Thu baby had roused up now, to be sure ;
no more of Its thoughtful serenity. Its little
form fairly fluttered with joy ; it laughed,
clapping its dimpled hands.
" You've come to stay all day with me,
haven't you ? and baby had such good com
pany while mamma was gone, hadn't it ?" she
said In a light, chirrupy way that set off the
little fellow with renewed delight. Her in
vitation ha t only seconded my di sign, so re
moving my bonnet and mantilla, while she sat
down on the rocker and took the baby, ive
prepared to enjoy the day and each other'sl
society.
I can't tell what we talked about. No; It
wasn't of bells, nor operas, nor lion's, nor
sights. No ; not a neighbor's character was
dissected. No ; the iiifirmities of the clergy•
man were not shown up. No ; not a morsel
of private scandal was cut or carved. But the
time flew swiftly and pleasantly after dinner,
and when the great round sun was sinking
behind trees that burned and glowed in the
rich, warm light, she came where I was sit•
tiug, and without a word laid a portrait in my
lap. It was that of a noble-looking man, with
most expressive and faultless leatures.
" Is it your husband ?" I asked.
"My husband as lie was," she answered
with a sigh. " You have never seen him 1"
I replied in the negative.
" It is almost time for him to be here," she
continued. "You will stay with us this eve
ning."
I replied that I should be happy to form his
acquaintance, and again look. d at his portrait.
" Ile doesn't locik like that now," she an
swered, wiping away a tear. " Yet nosey's,"
and a blush overspread her features, " he says
he shall ever have cause to bless the fire by
which he lost his good looks, but Which won
him what he esteemed a thousand times more
valuable."
" What Is It?" I asked, with an unaccoun•
table dullness of apprehension.
She pointed archly, and with a sweet smile
to her wedding ring. •
" Do tell me the story ; I should be delighted
to dear It."
Again she smiled, saying :
" I do not know . that you will consider it
very interesting ; however, several reasons
conspire to make me wish that you should
know all, and since you have never heard, per
haps I may as well tell you."
" Certainly, certainly."
" You see when Mr. Winslow first began
tile attentions to me I wasn't at all pleased.
Ile was handsome, I knew, but I had set toy
mind very foolishly, I suppose, on having a
rich husband, and one that could keep the
above the necessity of work. So I slh.chted
and repulsed him upon all occasions, making
him feel not merely indifference, but actual
loathing and scorn. Such treatment one might
have supposed would have quickly obliterated
his passion ; on the contrary, however, it
seemed only to increase It.
"About this time I formed the acquaintance
of a city gentleman, whom rumor reported
immensely rich, and whose intense selfishut ss
was veiled beneath a manner of the utmost
suavity. Ills attentions to me were wanted,
and not to be mistaken—and thought he hod
not spoken of love, he acted it, and I believed
"At this time I lived with my mother, in
our beautiul cottage at North Bend. The
place was very gay, and social parties large
and frequent ; I mingled in them all, and Bar-
ton was my escort. Sometimes I saw Win
slow,but he seldom approached me, though
his eep, sad eyes seemed following me. •
It was in October, I think, the atmosphere
dry and cool, with night winds. when as we
were returning from toe pary, late at night,
I was surpraed and shocked by the appear.
ance in the distance of a deep red light that
seemed to climb the sky and quench the very
stars. A wild and awful presentment of ap
proaching evil at the same time crossed my
mind. '
If that should be our house," I almost
shr " ieked.
Nonsene—it is much farther off," ex
claimed Barton.
But I was not satisfied, and hurried on, ea
gerly dragging him with me.
"We came nearer, nearer. My fears were
all too true. It was indeed our beautiful home,
wrappqd in one broad sheet of smoke and
flame. And forked tongues were lapping the
pillars, and shooting from the windows, while
up at one of the skylights stood my mother in
her nightdress.
" With one wild shriek I called the atten
tion of the crowd to her situation. Hundreds
of people bad by this time collected, though
chiefly, as it seemed, for the gratification of
curiosity. Some were running with ropes
and ladders, others shouting and givirot or
ders, which no one seemed inclined hi obey.
no
"My motber,my mother," I cried,"tvill
one go to the aPsistance of my wither ?
"Every moment the flames increased with
astonishing rapidity, surging and roaring
like the sea in a- storm. Still my mother
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stood there surveying the scene with the re
signation of a martyr.
Barton ! Barton I" I shrieked,for "God's
sake help my mother. Ho stood still. I Im
plored and urged him. At length ho turned
toward me with a frown, saying :
" I cannot risk my own life to save oven
your mother."
"Great Heavens I and I have loved this
man !" The tlniught rushed seething and
seething through my brain.
"There was a shout, an exclamation, and
utterance of brave, strong words. Some ner
vous arm had placed a ladder and a man was
rapidly mounting—on—on through the dense
smoke wreaths through singing flames,
scorched by the ;ntensest heat, on ho went.
It was a moment of intense suspense ;
the crowd swayed and murmured like a
wind swept wave. He appeared again ;
I saw my mother in his arms ; I knew that
she• was saved. Th , n there was the crash of
the falling roof, mingled with wild exclama
tions ; and n great mist swam betoremy eyes;
a noise not unlike that of the roaring flames
was in my ears, and I lost the consciousness
of surrounuing objects.
" is It necessary to tell who it was that thus
rescued my mother, or what emotions I expe
rienced upon hearing how deeply I was In
debted to the loan I had despised 4 It Is ne
cessary, however, for me to tell you that there
and then lie tbrover st the good looks watch
you admire in that portrait. The clothes were
burned from his body, and the flesh of his fade
and neck scarred and scorched fill the skin
seemed of the consistency of leather."
"There; there, my dear," said a manly
voice at the door, "you have told enough;
let me finish."
I looked up; a man was there, on whose
countenance were deep traces of the fiery ale.
anent, but ho didn't Molt ugly to mo at all.
E lull scar seemed rather a badge of honor,
and the very soul of truth and nobleness
beernMg radiantly in his eyes. His wife pre
sented him, and giving me hie hand ho said :
"One whom my dear wife esteems so much
cannot be a stranger to me, and now, since she
has told you part—for I have been a sad Caves
droppv— let me tell you the rest."
I joyfully assented.
"'Then and there," he began, "I heard the
flames roaring around me, and felt the fiery
breath scorching my cheeks, and seeming to
lay up the very springs of life, but was con
scious only of a great joy at my heart, for the
mother of her whom I prized was in my arms.
I knew when I touched the ground with my
precious charge, I heard the acclamations
that rent the air, but could only think that I
had made her happy, and in the bliss of that
assurance forgot for the time my own sufTer
ings, the world and everything.
"I lay 11l through several weeks—through
days and nights that would have been anguish
indeed, had I not known whose care it was
that had provided everything essential to my
comfort; had not such a pleasant face bent
Over me, such a sweet voice murmured In my
ear, such a soft hand ministered to my wants.
Never, In the proudest days in my health,
had I experienced such felicity, never In , my
weakness, now, when she sat beside me, when
she brought me fruit and flowers, when she
put her hand in mine and whispered some
thing that would have repaid sufferings a
thousand times bitterer than Mine."
Oh, William," she cried, blushing to tlio
very mete of her hair, "don't tell how silly
and foolish I was."
.! It wits neither silliness nor folly," 'lox
clahned, " but the reward of great virtue and
heroism. Let him go on; lam deeply Inter
ested."
" I have little more to 'tell," he resumed,
" but when I grew strong sod well enough to
walk about, I observed that all the mirrors
had been removed Hitherto, in my deep
ppiness, I had thought little of the scars
which I could have known would deface my
features. This incident reminded me of It,
and exited my curiosity. When I requested
one to be brought, she implored me to desist
and finally hurat into tears. I knew it all
now, but thank God, it didn't shock me in the
least.
I took her in my arms, and whispered that
since her beautiful lace bad become mine, I'
saw no cause to regret the loss of my old one,
and wouldn't for the world change back again.
You have seen and love me now, I said,where
as you didn't before ; you know all my dis
figurement, and with it your manner has
changed from scorn to kindness, so I have no
thing to mourn for.
" Every day of life sinco has convinced me
more t.nd moro that I spoke the truth."
BEECHER'S FATHER.
Henry Ward Beecher, In one of his lectures
before the Yale. Theological School said:
" I recollect my dear old father talking
about persons that worshipped God in clouds
and saw the hand of God In beauty: He
would say, 'lt is all moneshine, my son, with
no doctrine, nor edification, nor sanctity in It
all, and I despise it.' I never knew my father
to look at a landscape: in his lite, unless he
saw pigeons or squirrels in it. I have seen
him watch the stream, but it was, Invariably,
to know if there were pickerel or trout in it.
Be was a hunter, every inch; but I never
could discern that he had an testhetic element
in him, so far as relates to purity. Sublitnity
he felt. Whatever was grand he appreciated
very keenly, I do not think that he over
looked at one building in his life, except the
Girard College. When he came suddenly
upon It, and it opened up to vim, he looked
up and admired it; and I always marveled - at
that as a little instance of grace in him.
" That is laughable to you. I have no doubt
and since these addresses are the most famil
iar of all tasks, I will give you a little more
of my atnusin4 experience with him at home.
When he became an old man he lived six
months in my family, and became during that
time much interested in the pictures hanging
on the walls of the house. Otte which -par
ticularly attraCted his attention, and with
which he was greatly pleased, represented a
beautiful lake, with hunters ensconsed:behind
trees, shooting at ducks on the lake. Ho
n ould look at that picture every' day, and,
not thinking of the sportsmen, but only of the
be . nutiltil landscape ' said to myself, 'Well it
Is good to see him breaking from the spell of
his old ideas, and, now that he has become old
to see thesl tine grits growing and coming
out, to beheld him Opening into the [esthetic
eletnent in this way.' One day I stood
,be..
hind hint, as he was looking at. the ,picteire, -
unconscious of my presence. Bahl he, He
must have hit one, two, three—and, I OCIEBS
four "
IN THE JAWS OF THE LION.
A Wild Ilen•it Performer Fat/idly Injured
From tho Phibidelphia Lodritr or rho 3d
For some time past a young man, named
Joseph Whittle. has been engaged in hand
ling and taming lions and other animals be
longing to Mr. O'Brien's menagerie, now un
der shelter in a building in the rear antic Seven
Stars llotel,Frankford. Yesterday afternoon
the cage containing a large performing lion,
was wheeled into the yard, and Mr. Whittlo•
entered the cage for the purpose of practicing
the animal, one that had been performed with
for several years, but few pereonb being in the
yard at the time. After a part of the perform
ance bad been successfully gone through with,
Mr. Whittle put his head in the lion's mouth,
but just at this time the animal closed blajawa
upon the unfortunate man's bead, the teeth
entering his chin and throat. The men stand
ing in the yard immediately commented an
attack upon the lion with iron bars, sticks,
&c., but his hold could not be broken until an
iron scraper, used for cleanifq the cage, was
forced between the lion's Jaws. Whittle was
then released, but before he could get from
the cage tho lion again sprang upon him,
wounding him on the breast and throwing
him down. The lion then caught him by the
leg and commenced to tear it In a dreadful.
manner. Boards were eventually inserted in
the cage, and the lion, after being forced to
let go his hold was penned up In one corner
long enough for assistance to reach Whittle,
who was removed In an insensible condition
to the hotel. Last evening he was in ,a very
critical condition. The wounded man has
been in the employ of Mr. O'Brien for several
years, hut never bandied the lion that injured
him until recently.
Two children of Mr,Fertel, a littlebny and
little girl living on Arnold's Creek, in Grant
county, Tennessee, got Into a playful scuffle,
when the little boy fell on his Batter andkilled
her Instantly. The girl was about ten years
old and the boy about eight.
Out in Oregon, recently, a land elide occur.
red, which carried a house and about twenty
acres of ground, a distance of a third of smile,
the house, fencing and land being unchanged
auti uninjured. Several liersons were In the
building at the time, but no one wee banned.
ALLilfro WII. PA
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Killed HIM Lillie Sister.
How They More In Oreiron
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