Raftsman's journal. (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, September 01, 1869, Image 1

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BY S. J. ROW.
CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1809.
VOL. 1G.-NO. 1.
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& clrrt gnctnt.
THEEE MEETINGS.
ph the bappy mating from OTer th sea.
when I lo bj friend and my friead love me;
B4 ws Kind face to free, mod for letters read
There ire endlo" wordi to be heard and aaid.
Wi-h s glance betweea, shy. anxious, half strange'
At if asking-"Sy now if there ingot of charge ?"
Till weboih settle down a we ued to he
Since I love my friend atd my friend loves me
Oh the blisful meeting of lovers true.
gainst whom faith has done all that faith
could da;
Jtrd the dropped eoaqoered while over the (lain
Dead years of angni.h. parting and pain,
Hope lifts her banner, gay. gallant and fair,
latsinted. untorn. in the balmy air;
And the beareo of the futare, golden ana bright.
Arches abort thera God guards the right.
Bat oh for the meeting to eome one day .
When the spirit alipe oat of its house of clay ;
When the standers-by, with a pitying sign,
ha!' softly eoyer thil face of mine.
And I leap whither, ah! who can know?
Bat outward, onward, as spirits moat go,
Vntil eye to eye, without fear I see
God. and my lost, as they see me.
DRIED BUTTEE3UP3.
I was looking over, the other day, a little
drawer in Cousin Carrie's writing-table.
afttr a letter of Kate Hamilton's Kate
Iluncan that was that shi had proniiwd to
show uie There were all sort" of treasnrea
in the drawer letters tied np with blue
ribbons, miniatures, locks of hair, trinkets,
and souvenirs innumerable. In .turning
them orer iu my search, I came across a
fanciful little box. made of carved sandal
wool, that looked as though it hid some
thinjr of preat value.
"May I open it, Carrie?"
-Yes."
There wa nothing in it but a bunch of
dried tutrercups, pressed on a piece of
Mack ppor.
'lVar me! is this all? What do you
irvn hero in. a box. for, Carrie?
he to-k the box from my hand, and
lo kvd at them thoughtfully.
''There is nothing in that drawer, Kate,
that I prixe as much as these buttercups.
I've kept thein in that box for two years."
''Of course, then, there, something in-taret-ting
about them if they are so precious,
an thereby hansrs a tale eh, Carrie ?"
"Yes, but more interesting to me than
to anyliody else, I faney."
"Uh, no 1 Stories about withered flowers
that are kept as souvenirs, are delightful
and romantic, always, aad I fee! ju.t like
h'-sring one n"w. Do tell nabout fheru."
I had to rxw: ever ?o Ion?, but at last she
eMisenfel; so I jut tf-e things back into
the drawer, and drew a seat c'oc up to
t'arric. where I eoul l watch her as she ta'k
3, (for she had a face one never tires lock
inr at, and then she told me this story, just
a- I am cn'ng to tell it to you."
"About three years ago, Kate, mother's
h a'th wa so poor, that Dr. Field said she
Hiu-"t 5 to Cuba nothing but a warmer
citrate eo-t'J help her; so she ar.d father
w.-nt. and left uie with Aunt Lydia Merrill
wliile they were gone. She lives at Melton,
ina know. I had always lived in a large
ity, and it was a great change for me, for
Mcitim is about the amailest, quietest
little viilaee that ever was, and the society,
with the exception of one or two "famines,
worse than nothing. However, the Hfcsnery
i a- inve'y and picturesque as possible, aud
the wa'ls and rides enchanting ; aud "Tlie
V-ti'l. ' Itliey would rail it a lake in Er.g
so beaariful, that it seems made on
mwsr !ir sailing parties. So after I had
g to Aunt Lydia, who, like most
Eiii.ien la lies that live alone, is rather prim
ar.J 'r-r.-iper' in her notions, I was quite
e,,fii, aud when Mary came, happy."
" Aatit Lrdia's house is so pleasant, Kate.
There's a piazza in front, w ith pillars almost
ld with sweet-brier and honey-suckle, and
great orchard behind the house, that
when the apple blossoms were out, was a
i n fect paradise ; and the trees all around
'. tm'y not so man7 but that the house was
f'Jil ot'sun-hinffa!! diy."
"lh)w I di'l luxuriate in the beauties of
t ature iLat sunuiicr ! Ynu needn't laugh,
Kate : it's a !-aeknoyed expression, bat it's
the very oe I wanted. I almost lived out
1 or. till I got to be as rosy and brown as
c.vu:itr- girl a real 'nut brown niayde,"
i 1 no mistake. I botanized , I went out
berrying ; I sketched, studied, and read, or
rtcn led to sew, out in the woods or down
the brock, rode horse-back, ' and, when
A iu: Lydia would let me, drove all over
t!-e cuuuuy ruuad about iB her light wagon,
U c!;:at U humbug in the country, Kate,
a. id .-Luuid only be used for going to meet
lr'? in, Aunt Lydia's was), and finally
--s'.'ued Aunt Lydia by learning to row,
a-'tuaily."'
ikere was one drawback to' my harpi
a",f ' ,n'Jgh : there was not a girl in the
: se whom I cared to take as a friend,
151 15 'or beaux why, there was but one
i the place. Lsrael Parsons, aged about
One day, at dinner. Aunt Lydia quietly
Marked that Peter her man of all work
had ;u brought her a letter from Benjamin
frura the post office.
"Beijamin who?" said I, rather amused,
' the brother of Joseph ?"
' !Ls brother's name isn't Joseph," said
y Aunt ' simply ; it's SamueL Benjamiu
Resell yon know hiai, or used to. He's
a 'eeond cousin to you."
' "hat! Cousin Ben? W bat did you
fiy, Aunt?"
He is coming to Melton to stay three or
0Qr months, and is going to study law with
-J'e Mirot while he is here. Tie eau't
t lr the c:ty in the nimst. he ?av. and
as Melton is his. ideal of a country place, he
shall have a grand time to study, with noth
ing to lake his attention off ; and he wont
miss city society while you and I are here!'
''So he knows I am here, then," said I ;
"I am glad he's coming. I used to like
Ben ever so much."
''Yes, he is a very good-looking young
man, I should judge," said Aunt Lydia.
"I hope you will be polite tu him, Caro
line," "When Cousin Ben was thirteen, and I
ten or eleven, we had 'been fast friends
companions in all each other's frolics and
scoldings, inseparable generally. Then his
father died, and they moved to another city.
I hadn't seen him since, and the correspon
dence that begun so furiously, had died out
years ago, so that we were comparatively
strangers to each other.
"The idea of renewing our old friendship
was delightful, besides the pleasure of see
ing some person from the city. He was
going to board at Judge Minot's about a
mile or so from Aunt Lydia' s and wxs ex
pected in a week. I knew he would call to
see us as soon as lie came, and was impa
tient to know of his arrival. The week
passed, then a fortnight, and no Cousin
lien, and I made up my mind that he was
not coming at alL
"One beautiful morning. Aunt Lydia
akd me to go over to Mrs. Woodbury's
for her, on some trifling errand or other, as
Peter was busy and could not go : so putting
on my white cape bonnet. I went. It was
half a mile, but I thought nothing of the
walk. In coming home, it was so warm
that I decided to go through the woods,
which lay between Mr. Woodbury's aud
our house. I sauntered along .till I came
to a brook that run through the wood ;
where it was narrowest, a board had been
laid across for a bridge but it wa3 old, and
when I was in the middle of it, the treach
erous thing broke. The water wasn't deep,
not above my knees ; but I didn't care to
wade it, so a I felt the bridge breaking, I
managed to jump oa a large stone close by.
I stood balancing myself on it, trying to End
a way to get across, when I was startled by
a voice from the bushes near me humming
a tune, and then ia a moment I hcird the
xclamation :
"Why, blew me! here's the divinity of
the place ! What a charming attitude !"
"Whoever you are, I called out, I wLsh
you would help me across here."
"It's a pity to jspoil such a pretty pic
ture, said tne voice. bull I shall be
most happy to serve you. Wait but a mo
ment." "A piece of board soon made its appear
ance, and was laid with one end on th'st'jne
I was standing on, a;id the other on th-j op
posite side of the brook."
"Xow, then. Undine."
"I landed safely, with no other damage
than a pair of wet foot, an 1 a neat nurn ing
drews much splashed an I drabbled. I
thanked the bridge maker, who only shrug
ged his shoulders, and s.iid comically :
"It's fortunate for me that I came along
this way. I hope you will pardon me, but
I am ashamed with that bri lfc for breaking
just when it did."
"He was just going to walk away, when
he stopped, and said :
"If you really are not a water wraith, per
haps you can tell me where Mis Lydia
Merrill, live?' '
The thought flashad across me, and I
looked at him again.
"Cousin Ben ! is this you ?"
"Cousin Carrie ! ia it possible? Now this
is so delightful 1" and he grasped uiy hand
warmly. "How did you recognize mc ?".
"By the old saucy look in your eyes as you
spoke, and by your aking where Aunt Ly
dia lives principally by the first, though."
"Thank you '" and he lifted his cap and
bowed very kw. "I should Lever have
known yoc. I left you a little scraggy witch,
all angles, and great brown eyes, and now
you ve grown so ,
"Handsome," I broke in.
He laughed. "'o, rain. Bat how wet
you are, you will take cold. How I wish I
could change into a coach and six, for then
you wuuld leave me carry yoa home. As it
is, will you take my arm ? and we wiJi get
there as soon as we can."
By the time we reached Aunt Lydia's we
felt as much at ea&e together as if it hadn't
been a dozen years since we saw eaeh oUier
last. He stayed and dined with us. and I
was charmed to see how cozily he adapted
himself to her set ways, quite taking her
maiden heart by storm in so doing. The
staid dining room hsdn't rung with so much
merriment for many months, and Cousin
Ben and I rallied each other mercilessly.
yet aunt never once shook her head at nie,
or asked me to "try and be more dignified."
"Cousin Carrie," I interrupted, "you
have not told me how he looked. Was he
tail and handsome ?"
"He was tall, Kate, but I don't know
hether yoa would call him handsome or
not. There was a decided tascination about
his face I am sure of that and it was not
a common one. He had very light hair,
ith just the least curl in it, while his eyes,
which were large, were dark, almost black,
ith a laughing archness and sparkle in them
that was perfectly irresistible. There was a
most wonderful play of expression in Lis
face, and 1 never saw one that could change
so suddenly aad entirely as his. Then there
was a sort of careless elcganee and freedom
ia his manner that fascinates women always,
and comes only from mingling in society,
and a certain consciousness of one's power.
We suited each other exactly, and for the
future I had no reao!j to complain of want
of cor;'paBSinjh5p. It was astonishing low
! famously ws got on together, and how, be
cause we called each other 'cousin,' though
only second cousins, we felt at liberty to say
and do just what we chose. Being such old,
familiar friends, we declared that it would
be absurd to think of falling in love with
each other, and so there was no danger in
playing the agreeable, and having what we
should call io the city 'a des perate flirtation.
Cousin Ben's law studies proved rather a
failure, I'm afraid., for his time was other
wise taken up. We took long walks,' hunt
ing up specimens for my herbarium, sailed
on the pood, and took moonlight drives when
we felt romantic. A!mo3t every fine morn
ing Ecu's horse would come cantering up
the road and there was some reason why I
ought to go with him. If my cheeks were
redder than usual, he would sAy solemnly,
"Cousin Carrie, it really distresses me to
see you look so poorly. Perhaps I had bet
ter tell Peter to saddle your horse ; a ride
may do you good."
"When it was too warm to go out, we
read together, and Ben's superior culture
was an advantage to me that I appreciated.
Our readings generally ended in long talki
about everything, earthly and unearthly. In
the evenings we practiced duetts and songs
with cur heads over our music book, and he
learned to play the flute to please me. Some
times we would astonish good Aunt Lydia
by singing love songs to each other with an
amazing amount of expression, and when
she would look alarmed. first at one and then
at the other, through her spectacles, we
would go off in a perfect peal of laughter at
our own absurdity, and her wonder at our
performance.
"She was entirely mystified by our pro
ceedincs, and told me ones or twice, that
'the didn't approve of our going on. It
was in vain that I tried to explain to her
that we were merely having a platonic flirt
ation the most harmless thing, I assured
her, in the world."
"Platonic nensense! You need not talk
to me, Caroline, I know better. There is
no such thing."
"Do you know German, Cousin Carrie?"
asked Ben, as we sat sewing Aunt Lydia
and myself.
"Not a word of it, Ben."
"Then I think I must begin to teach it to
yoa. Don't you think I had better, Auut
Lydia?,
"Perhaps yoa had better teach her law.
Such hard study since you have been with
Judge Minot at Melton, must have render
ed you competent.",
"Very trr-e. Bat it might be best Io dis
cipline the mind first oti German," answered
Ben demurely. .
"i7e beg'ni it the n-st day.and the bursts
of hughtor that reached Aunt Lydia's ears,
as I undertook to pronounce the gutterals,
g;fe her occasion to remark that she was
not aware- before what an interesting study
Ocrritn was. I was never happier in my
life, thongh began to lse faith in that
mai-ic word 't'iaionic' and didn't let myself
think what Meltofl would be for me when
Ben was gone, and we sung no more love
songs together with 'expression.'
"One bright day we w.-Jked together,
laughing and talking as usual, he carrying
my portfolio, for I had teen sketching,when
he said: 'The Melton people can't under
stand us at all, Carrie. Do you know how
they talk about us?"
"What do they say?"
"O, all torts f things; that we have
been engaged for two years ; that we are to
be married next month, and the like. It
was only last night that Judge Minot told
me that he thought I loved yoa. and that it
was folly to eall it a flirtation."
'"And what did you say ?" I enquired,
for he wanted an auswer. -
"I didn't say anything; but I'll tcH you
what I thought, Carrie dial it was per
fectly true." - -
. "It came suddenly, Kate, that you can
not think how I- felt for a moment ! My
heart beat so loudly that you could almost
have heard it -and yet J was so glad and
happy. But I only drew my cape-bonnet
down, so that Ben could not see tay face,
and said :
"Well, and what then ?"
"O, nothing, only I should like to know
if you love me?" - -
"Are yoa really offering yourself to me,
Ben 1 Because if you are. I wish yoa would
kneel down, and do it in the real, novel
style."
"Certainly if yoa wish it. But it's dusty
here ; can you wait till we reach that gras3
there?" .
"O, yes! But did I not tell you that I
have always intended to refuse my first of
fer? I don't like to break my word."
"Very well; refuse me now, and when
we reach the aforesaid grass I will offer my
self again, and then yoa cwn accept me, fall
into my arms, and murmur yes !"
"I shall do nothing of the kind ; I shall
merely ask a week to consider in. "
"Bui, Carrie" this time without try
ing to conceal bis earnestness "yoa have
not answered my question yet"
"What question?"
"You know as well as I do, Carrie."
"Well, then, cousin Ben, go and get me
those buttereups, to prove that you are io
earnest, and I'll say yes !"
"We were walking past the only hill in
Melton, and away up the steep side I saw a
bunch tif buttercups in a crevice of a rock,
waving in the wind. I hardly thought that
he would take m at my word, for it seemed
barely possible to reach them; but quick
ad thought he darted from me and wad
clambering up the rocks. He reached the
buttercups.and as be did so turned to tue an
ar.-h look of triumph. I stood watchiug
Lim as be i g-ii to c-uit'. down , bat when
the descent was half made, a stone on which
be had planted his foot, rolled, aud I eaw
him fall to the bottom among the rocks."
"O, Ben, dear Ben, are you hurt ? O,
do speak to me?"
But there was no answer. I kneeled
down beside him. 1
'Oh, I do love him, and yet I hare kill
ed him ! Dear, dear cousin Ben, apeak to
me once more I And it was very foolish
Kate, but I put down my head and kissed
him.
As I exclaimed, "O, wht shall I do?
what shall I do? I saw a smile quiver round
hi9 mouth, and he opened his eyes aDd look
ed at me archly. He was not hurt he had
been deceiving me! I sprang to my feet
burning with indignation and shame; to
think that I had betrayed myself to him ;
and without one word I turned away with
the air of an injured queen, for I felt so, I
am sure.
"Now don't be angry, cousin Carrie,"
said Ben, springing up and coming to my
side; "I really didn't mean to frighten you
till you screamed and ran to me with such a
look of terror, and then an irresistable de
sire came over me to see if you really did
care for me."
"You have insulted me," I replied in
dignantly, "and yet you do not even ask
me to forgive you. or assume to be sorry."
"I do acknowledge that it was wrong, but
as to being sorry, Carrie," and he looked
me full in the face with a world of meaning
in his beautiful eyes "I would rather give
half my life than not had it happen as it
did !" Then he resumed his old rallying
tone, evidently not beleiving iu my anger,
while I walked on in dignified silence.
"Carrie, you do look like Mrs. Siddons
as Lady Macbeth, actually all but the
cape bonnet, which I think rather injures
the effect. Wouldn't you be kind enough
to take it off? No ! What a pity ! Your
mouth is suited perfectly to a pouting ex
pression, and it's a shame to hide it."
While we were' walking along, he had
been carefully arranging the buttercups and
shaking the dust from tho leaves, and now,
as we reached the gate before Aunt Lydia's
house, he held them out to me.
"Tli3 buttercups, Carrie, that yoa sent
me for. You know what your receiving
them was to mean."
I drew rxy band bac-k, saying, "I ahall not
take them."
nis manner changed instantly, and with
earnestness, and yet a quiet dignity that I
admired in spite of myself,. he answered :
"Cousin Carrie, you kaow that I love you
better than 'anything else on earth, but ift:
you wish to .let me know, by refusing the
buttercup?, that you do not care for my love
there is nothing more for me to say."
I was very ano'.and merely saying "you
may keep them," I opened the gate and
went in. wishing hiru baaghtily, "good
morning."
"What a turmoil tay mind was in that
night, Kate, as I sat at my . wiaow and
thought over all wc had said and done !
Sometimes indignation was uppermost, that
he had deceived me so, and heard my pas
sionate exclamations when he was lying
there, and that be knew that I had kissed
him. Then I would go orer and over again,
how he told me, and just how he looked and
his tone as he said it, and it thrilled me
with intense pleasure. By the next morn
ing aiy indignation had so far abated that I
made up my mind when Ben came to treat
him coldly at first, but if he should be very
penitent for his fault, perhaps I might for
give him in time. But he did not come. ;
"I suppose he thinks to punish me by
stiiyingaway to-day," I said to myself. ''
He did not come the next day, nor the
next, nor the whole week. How I wonder
ed at it, and listened to hear his voice every
time there was a kr.oek at the door, or a
footstep at the gate ; and how I mLved him!
There was no pleasure in going alone, and
there was no pleasure in practicing or study
ing, or doing anything without Cousin Ben.
Aunt Lydia could not account for his ab
sence at all ; only once she said to me with
curious look at ue over her spectacles r
"I hope, Caroline, that there has not
been any trouble between you and Benja
min?" "What trouble could there be?" I repli
ed, pretending to be amused at the thought
of such a thing. '
"Well, it's very queer! I should think,
he must be sick, if Peter hado't seen him
at the post office yesterday."
A fortnight, seeming to me two months,
passed drearily by. One evening I had
just come in from the garden, and was
standing listlessly on "the piazza, when I
heard a voice in the parlor that made me
start. It was Cousin Ben's. lie was talk
ing to Aunt Lydia, aad I could hear every
word they said through the open windows,
while I myself was hid by the curtins. lie
told her that he had come to the conclusion
that he had better leave Melton, and that he
was going in the morning, and had only
rome to take leave of her. Aunt Lydia
told him how sorry she was to have him go
away, and then I heard her ask him if he
had seen me. "No,"he said, and then he
hesitated. "I do not think she will
care about seeiag me before I go. Will you
bid her good-bye for me ?"
I could not bear anything" more. It
seemed as if there was something in my
throat choking me. " I turned away, sta
tioning myself by one of the pillars, where
I thought he could not see me, that I at
least might get one glimpse of him before lie
went away.
"I shall not see hirn again," I said to my
self, and I thought of that line in Kathleen
Mavourcen. that w bad so often saiJS to
"It may be for years, and it may be lorerer."
In a moment or two he came out, when'
jm-t as he waa stepping off the piazza, he
somehow got a glimpse of my dress. He
stopped and hesitated ; theu came up and
held out his hand.
"Good-bye, Cousin Carrie."
I was startled as I looked at him, and saw
the settled sadness and paleness of hw face.
"Good bye," I said.
He had turned to go away, when I called
to him quickly, "Cousin Ben."
He came back.
"I will take the buttercups. Will you
give them to me?"
He started, and you should have seen the
sudden flush of joy that lit up his face.
"Oh. Cousin Carrie," I interrupted, "I
am so glad. What did he do?"
"He took the flowers out of his pocket
aud gave them to me."
"Of course.' But is that all he did ?"
"No, Miss Kato Ware." said Carrie,
laughingly, "it was not all he did, but you
should not be so inquisitive. It is quite
sufficient for you to know that we were both
so happy that we staid out there talking for
a full hour. It is a wonder I didn't catch
cold, it was such a damp night. And theu
Ben had to hurry 'off to tell the stage driver
that be need not call for him ia the morning
as he had ordered him to.
"Aunt Lydia was astonished beyond eve
rything when I told her that Bon wasn't
going to leave Melton, and that we were en
gaged. But a3 soon as she had recovered
her equanimity she said she wasn't surpris
ed in the least, she knew how things would
turn out long ego."
"So your Cousin stayed at Melton as long
as yon dLL I em afraid there wasn't much
law studying after that," I said.
"That's because you dou't know Ben at
all. He began at once to study so hard that
he not only redeemed his character with
Judge Minor., but won from him the highest
praise, and the Drophccy that there was a
splendid future before him if he but went
on with the same earnestness. I was very
happr and very proud of him, though his
time was so occupied that I saw him but
little except in the evening ; but I knew hcl
was working for me, and desired distinction
only for my sake. When father and moth
er came home we were married ; and I have
never had reason to regret the time whea I
told Ben I would take the buttercups. Now
you kaow, Katfe, why I prize them so much."
A love sick swain, in order to" more fully
ascertain the mind of his lady love, closed a
letter with the following verse :
If you were a dog, and I was a hog,
A rootin away in the yard ;
LTthc old manshould sny,drivehatho away
Would you worry or bite very Lai d ?
An exchange says a sentiment so sublime
deserves an answer, and ventures to svppose
the lady's answer:
When I am a dog, and you are a hog,
A wandering from the sty,
I'll not breathe a bark, but merely remark,
Go it, porkie, root hog, or die.
Tii2 Motukr. As the infant begins to
discriminate between the objects around it,
soon discovers one countenance that ever
smiles upon it with peculiar benignity.
When it awakes from its sleep, there is one
watchful form ever bent over its cradle. If
startled by some unhappy dream, a guar
dian angel seems ever ready to sooth its
fears. If cold, that ministering spirit brin
warmth; if hungry, she feeds it ; if happy,
she care? ses it ; in joy or in sorrow, ia weal
or woe she is the first of his thought". liar
presence is heaven. The mother is the dei
ty of infancy.
A man had migrated from church to
church, breaking up each as he passed. At
length he found himself in the Presbyterian
church, where he was making great progress.
The preacher, in great distress said to one
of his eldere :
"What shall we do with him?" .
"Oh!" replied the elder, "I have been
praying the Lord to rand him to helL"
"Oh, brother, what do you mean ?"
"Mean what I say; I hope ho will get to
hell ; he would do good there ; he would
break up the establishment in six weeks."
A Clergyman, who was reading to his
congregation a chapter in Genesis, found
the last sentence to be: "Aud the Ljjrd
gave unto Adam a wife," Turning over
two leaves together, he found written, and
read : "And she was pitched without and
within." He had unhappily got into a de
scription cf Noah's Ark.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mari
ner. Neither do uninterrupted prosperity
aud success qualify man lor usefulness and
happiness. The sierras of adversity, like
the storms of the ocean, rouse the faculties
and excercise the invention, prudence, tkili,
and fortitude of the voyager.
A rough individual whose knowledge of
classical language was not quite complete
had been sick, and on recovering was told
by his doctor that he might have a little
animal food. "No sir," said be, "I took
your gruel easy enough, but bang me if I
can go your tay and oats."-
As the dew lies longest and produces
most fertility in the shade, 60 woman, in
the shade of domestic retirement, sheds
around her path richer and more permanent
blessings than man, who is more exposed to
the glare and observation of public life.
Don't force a man to take your advice.
You can advise him to take a bath without
piu-hing Vvsi into f re river
gu.sme&s IJircctonn
"W WALTERS. Attcbmt at Law
A. Clearfield. Pa Pfliee in the Court flouge.
V17-ALTEB BARRETT, AUornev at Lew, Clear
field, Pa. Xlay i. )aH.
ED. W. GRAHAM. Dealer in Dry-.JooJs. G roce
ries, Hardware. Qneensware. Woodenwure
trovUioni, etc., Market Street. Clearfield. Pa. '
DVtI O. NIVLISG .Pealcr in Pry-floods.
Ladios" Fancy (ioods. iiatr and Can's, Boots.
Shoes, eto .Seaund Street, Clearfield. Pa. sep2S
A TERKELL BIGLKK. Dealers in Hardware
i.VL and niannfaeturers of Tin -and iSbeet-iron
rare. Second Street, Clearfield, Pa. June f6.
HF. SATJOLE. Watch and Clock Maker, and
. dealer in Watches, Jewelry. Ac. Room in
J rah am ' row, Market street Nut. 10.
HBUCHEK SWOOPE. Attorney t Law.Clear
. field, Pa. OEca in Graham's Row. four doo-s
westof Graham 4 Boy utvn's store. Nov. 10.
HW. SMITH. Attokjset at Law. Clearfield,
. Pa., will attend promptly to business en
(ratted to his care. Jane 30, 1889.
VITILLIAM A. WALLACE. Attorney at Law.
Clearfield, Pa.. Legal bueinet of all kinds
promptly ar.d accurately attended to.
Clearfield, Pa., June (Kb. 1HC9.
JB J'ENALLY, Attorney at Law. Clearfield,
. Pa. Practices in Clarfield and adjoin' Dg
xmnties. OEce in new brick building of J.Boyn
t 'n2i street, one door south of Lacich's Hotel.
iTEST, Attorney at Law. Clearfield. Pa., will
. atiend promptly to all Lejal business entrust
ed to his eare in Clearfield and adjoining coun
ties. Offiue on Market street. Juiy 17, 1S67.
THOMAS li. FORCKT. Dealer in Square and
Sawed Lumber, Dry-Goods. liueensware, Gro
ceries. Flour. Grain, Feed, Bacon, Ac , Ac, Gra
haroton, Clearfield county. Pa. Oct 10.
TP. KRATZER, Dealer in Dry-Goo2s. Clothing.
. Hardware, Queensware, Groceries. Provi
sions, ete.. Market street, nearly opposite the
Court House, Clearfield.J'a. June. lSf-5.
HRTSWICK IRWIN. Dealers in Drugs,
Medicines. Paints. Oils. Stationary, Perfume
ry. Fancv Goods, Notions, etc., etc.. Market strewn
Clearfield, Pa Dec. 6. lsfii
K.UATZER A SON, dealers in Pry Goods.
V Clothing. Hardware, vjueensware. Groce
ries, rronsions, Ac, beoona street cearneia
Pa. Dee 27. ISfia.
J )11N Gl'ELICH. Manufacturer of ell kind of
Cabinet-ware. iarket street. Clearfield. Pa
Hi also makes to order Cotans. on snort notice, and
trends funerals with a hearse. AprlO.'M.
THOMAS J. M CL'LLOUGH. Attorney at Law.
Clearfield, Pa. Office, east of the ' Clearfield
jo. Bant:. Deedaand other lesalinstrumentF pre
pared with promptness and accuracy. July 3.
RICHARD MOSSOP, Dealer in Foreign and.Do
mestia Dry Goods, Groceries. Floor, Bacon,
Liquors, ic. Room, on Market street, a fewdoors
we.ttot Joitrntl fi'-'. Clearfield, Pa. Apr27.
-FREDERICK LEITZIXGER, Manufacturer f
all kinds of Stone-ware. Clearfield. Pa. Or
dew solicited wholesale or retail He alsokeep
on hand and for sale an assortment of earthens
wara. of his own maaafactura. Jan. 1, 1863
-X M. HOOVER.Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
l . TOBACCO. ClUARS AND S.YIW. A
Ure assortment of pipes, cigar cases. Ae., con
stantly on hand. Two doors East of the Post
Office, Clearfield, Pa. May 1.'69.
"TT"STERS HOTEL, Clearfield, Ta This
W well known botol, near the t'ourt House, is
werU y ibe patronate of the public. The toble
will lie sop.ilied with the best in tho market. The
boM, f liquors kept. JOliX DVLOHERTY.
JOHS II. Fi?LF RD, Attorney at Law. Clear
field, r. 0-:o u Market Street, ever
Hurt-wick i Irwin's Drug ?ure. Prompt attention
iriren to the scenringof Hounty claims. Ae.,and to
all logal business. March 27, ISS7.
W ALBERT, A BRO S.. Dealers in Dry Goods,
.Groceries, Hardware. Onecnsware. Flour Ba
con, etc., Woodland. Clearfield county. Pa. Alto
extensive dealers in all kinds of sawed lumber
ihingles. and square timber. Orders solicited.
Woodland, Pa., Aug. 19tb, ISn.t
DR J. P. BURCIIFI ELD Late Surgeon of the
53d Reg t Penn:a Vols., having returned
from the army, offers bis profossiona) services to
ihe citiaeiis of Clearfield and vicinity. Profes
sional calls promptly attend 3d to. Office on
South-East corner of 3d and Market Street.
Oct. 4. 1S55 Smp.
qURVEYOIl. The undersigned offers
his .services to the public, as a Surveyor.
Ho may be fonnd at his residence in Law:'enca
township, when not engaged ; or addressed by
letter at Clearfield, Penn'a.
March 6th. lr7.-tf. J fMES MITCHELL.
T E F F E R S N LITZ,
f' rhy.sieian and Surgeon,
M. D..
Having located at Osceola. I'a , oners iits protes
Mon.i! services to tLe people of that place aud sur
rounding ooontry. Ail calls BJ-omptly attended
to. OS?e and resid-mce on Cuniz. Street, former
ly occupied by Dr. Kline May l.'6B.
rmiO-MAS W. MOOllK, Land Surveyor
-- aud Conveyanoer. Having recently lo
cated in the Borough of Lumber City. and resuia
samed the practice of Land Surveying, respect
fully tenders his professional service to the ew ti
er and speculators in lands tn Clearfield and ad
juiug coantiea Deedof Conveyance Bearly e
eouied. Omee and residence one door East of
Kirk Sr Spencers Store
Lumber City. April 14. 1369 ly. -
QOLDIERS' BOUNTIES, A recent hill
has passed both Honse of Congress.and
signed by the President, giving soldiers who en
listed prior to 2 2d July. 161, served ooeyear or
more and were honorably discharged, a bounty
of si no.
rjTiJoanties and Pensions collected by me for
thoseentitled to them.
WALTER BARRETT, Att'y'at Law.
Aug. lath, 18f)6. Clearfield. Pa.
Q LEARFIELD HOUSE.
FROST STREET, PHILIPSBL'RG, PA.
I will impeach any one who says I fail to give
direct and personal attention to all oar customers,
or fail to cause them to rejoice over a well fur
nished table, with clean rooms and new beds,
woere all may feel at borne and the weary be at
rei. New stabling attached.
rhilipfburg, Sep. 2.'03- JAS.U.QALER.
EXCHANGE . HOTEL,
Huntingdon, Pcnn'sx. .
This old establishment having been leased by
J. Morrison, formerly Proprietor of the -Morrison
liouse.'? ha been thoroughly renovated and re
furnished, and supplied with all the modern im
provements and cenveniencies necessary to a first
eiass Hotel. The dinizg room has been removed
to the first leor, and is now spacious and airy.
The chambers are all well ventilated, and the
Proprietor will endeavor to mske his guests per
fectly at home. J. MORRISON. -Huntingdon-Juno
17,1263. Proprietor-
JJENTAL PARTNERSHIP.
DR. A.M. HILLS desires to inform his patient
an 4 the public generally, that he has associated
without in the practice of Dentistry. S.P.6HAW,
D. V. S .who is graduate of the Philadelphia
Dental College, and therefore has the highest
attestation rf his Professional skill.
All work done in the osfiee I will hold myself
personally responsible for beiirg done in the most
satisfactory manner and highest order of the pro
fession. As established practice of twenty-two years in
this place enables m to speak to my rfrocs with
confidence. .',,,.
Engagements from a distance should be msue
by letter a few days before the P"' designs
.oic inreH .'' imis!y.
T1 RE BLCK LKAD, equal in quality to
hnglish white lead; Oils. Taints and
smithes of all kinds; Gold leaf ia books. mu4
bronies. for sale by A. I. SHAW
Clearfield, October 23. 1887.
T J. C U N KING II A M,
ATTORNEY AT LW,
Real Estate Agent and Conveyancer,
TT0; BLUE CorSTT, P.
Special attention given te the collection of claim.
Tyron, Pa , January 27, 1869-tf
J. K- B O T T O R F'S
v ' PIIO TOGRA PU GA LLER Y,
MAHKCT (TKBCT. rLKAan ( LD, r-CSN.
Negatives mad in elondy as well as ia dear
V T Lon,tJ,n' n hHnd od aawrto.nt
or Frames btereoscopes and Stereoscopic Views
Frame, from any style of moulding, mad to
"jjlT. Jdee 2,'6-jy. 14-6iM.
RANKING & COLLECTION OFFICE
OK
McGIEK A PEP.KS.
Successors t Foster. Perks, Wright A Co.,
PuLU-ssrac, CexTR Co., Pa.
Where all the business J a Eanaiug Hoasa
will be transacted promptly atd npoa Lb most
favorable terms. March 20 -tf
SD.WCtF:. .WSMHI.
RKMOVA L G U N S II O P".
The undersigned begs leave to inform his old
and new cuauimers.and the public generally,
that he has fitted np a new GCS SHOP, on the
hit on the comer of Foarth and Market streets.
Clearfield. Pa., where he keeps constantly en
hand, and makes to order, all kinds ot Guns
Also, guns re bored and revarnished. and repaired
neatly on short notieer Orders by mail will re
ceive prompt attention.
June9,lbf,9. JOHN MOORE.
IIE LEONARD HOUSE,
(Near the Railroad Depot),
Reed Street, Clearfield, Pa.
G D. GOODFELLOW
Pbopribtok.
A new first class Hotel in every respect com
fortable rooms all the modern improvement
the best cf Liquors proffiptattendance. and rea
sonable charges. The patronage of the poblie i
respectfully solicited. jy-21-tf.
J P. KRATZER,
Clearfield, Fenn'a,
Dealer in Dry Goods, Dress Goods. Millinery
Goods. Groceries. Hard -ware. Queens-war. Stone
ware, Clothing, Boot. Shoe, Hau, Caps, Floor,
Eacon. Fish. Salt, etc ., is constantly receiving Dew
supplies from she cities, which he will dispose ei
at the lowest market prices, to customers. Before
purchasing elsewhere, examine hit stock.
Clearfield, August li, istl.
QLOTIIING! CLOTHING1I
GOOD AlfD CHEAP in
Men, Youths and Boys ean besaplpied with full
suits of seasonable end fashionable clothing at
RK1ZESSTEI BROS' A CO..
where it is sold at priees that will indue their
pcrcbase. The universal satisfaction which ha
been given, ha induced them to increase their
iork, which is now not surpassed by any estab
lishment of the kind in this part of th Stat.
Reizenstein Ero's & Co.,
KelJ goods at a very small profit, for cask; '
Their goods are well made and fashionable.'
Tuey give every on the worth of hi money.
They treat their customers all alike.
They sell cheaper than every body else.
Their store is conveniently situated.
They having purchased their stock t reduced
priees they can sell cheaper than ether.
For these and other reaaora rwwm t,,Mtj i
their clothing at
itSIZtfNSTEIN BKO'8 A CO.
Produce ofeverv kind ta(rn fh t.M.H
market priees. Slay IK. lb4.
JEHF; 8TRI.VO STOCK!
J. SHAW & SON.
Have just returned from the east and are now
opening an entire new stock of goods in the rooea
formerly occupied by Win-F.Ixwia, on Market
Street, which they now offer to the public at the
lowest cash prices.
Their sfock consurs of general assortment of
Dry Goods, Groceries. Queensware, Hardware,
Boot, Shoe, Hats, Caps, Bonnet, Dress Goods,
rntits, candies. Fish, Bait, Bronies. Naila, etc .
in faot, verythir,g usually kept io retail stor
can be had by calling at this store, er will be
procured to order.
Their stock is well aeleoted. antLaonsist of the
newest goods, is of the best quality, of th latest
style, and will be sold at lowest priees for eaa,
or exchanged for approved country prodaee.
Be sure aad call and (xamia our stock before
making your purchases, as we are determined
please all who may favor as with their enstoca.
May 8, lw7. J. SHAW A SON.
a. v. sun,
JFl KAVaft
w. roiu,
o. r. Boor.
NOTICE. ww"Sr,
CLEARFIELD PLANING MILL
ALL RIGHT.
Mxssrs. HOOP. WEAVER A CO., Proprietor,
would respectfully inform tb citisens of th
eonnty that they have completely refitted and
supplied their PLANING 51ILL,fn this Borough,
with the best and latost improved
WOOD WORKING MACHINERY,
and ar new prepared to execute all order ia
their line of business, such as
Flooring, Wcatherboarding,
Sash, Doors, Blinds, Brackets, and
Moldings, of all kinds. ;
They have a large stock of dry limber oa hand,
and will pay cash for dear stuff, cne-ard- half
ir1:!: I r:T.i jlar k prrerrd N(' a, fST.