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CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY.. JANUAUT 28, 1870.
VOL. 16.-K0. 21
BY S. J. KOW.
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MI GUARD IA3 ANGEL.
They say thy angel form, mothej.
Is hoveling all the while
Around thy orphan child, mother,
To guard her steps from guile.
Methinks I hear thy gentle Toice.
In accents ott and clear ;
Like distant music's dying strains.
It falls upon mine ear.
My heart is very sad. mother
Ob. could I soar to thee !
The world is cold and dreary now
It hath no charms for me.
I long to Isy my wearied limbs
Beneath the silent m jund ;
My soul be borne away from earth
To realms of bliss profound.
I never can forget, mother,
Th-ise counseling of lore
You breathed to me in infant years,
When all was bright above.
The little eloud that dimmed my brow.
Your smiles could chase away,
Acd cast a gleam around my path.
Mice some refulge.it r.iy.
Yuu'll c-me and tee me of t, mother,
And whisper low tome ;
That I may hear thy angel voice.
Though 1 no vestige see.
And when my pilgrimage is e'er,
I'll join that happy ban d,
Andeoxron airy wings away,
Tc mj home the spirit land.
A BRAVE T70MAN,and how SHE DID IT.
"IVdlam let loose! Pandemonium in re
belli"n ! Chaosi turned inside out ! What is
the reason a man cannot be allowed to sleep
in the morning without this everlasting
racket raised about his ears? Children cry
ing Jjiirs slamming I will know the cause
of all this uproar !"
Mr. Luke Darcy shut the door of hits bed
room with considerable eniphaU, and went
straight to the breakfa-t parlor.
All was bright and quiet and pleasant
there: t he eoal snapping an J sparklinu' in the
prate, the china and silver neatly ai ranged
on the spotless damask cloth, and the green
parrot drowsily winkiit? his yellow eyes in
the s'i;i;iy k1o'.v of the eastern window lied
lam plainly wasn't located,.' just . there,. and
Mr. lmy went stunningly upstairs to the
nur-ery.
A'l ! tho !L!d o( battle w. sained at last.
)Irs. Darcy sat in her little low chair before
t!ietiri trying to quiet the hcicluis of an
ikiil uwuhsold baby scion of.the house of
l)ar.-y, while another a boy of five years
lay on his back, prone on the floor, kicking
'i 1 crying in an ungovernable lit of chil Jlih
ji-sion.
"Mrs. Par cy !" -enunciated Luke, with
a slow and ominous precision, "iiiay 1 in
ipir? what all this means? Arc yon aware
that it is tihocu minutes past nine o'clock ?
you know that breakfast i wa'ting?"
"1 know, Luke I know," said poor.per
I.Vxed Mrs. Daicy,striviiig vainly to lift the
rebellious urchin up by one arm, "Come,
Fre.Hy.you are going to be good now, mam
nil is sure, and get up and be washed."
"No o !" roared Master Freddy, per
forming a hri.k tattoo on the carpet with his
heels, mj clawing the air furiously.
iike an avenging vulture, Mr. Parey
pounced abruptly down on his son ar.d heir,
aiij carried him promptly to the closet, and
tu ne the key upou his screatm.
"Now. sir, you cau ciy it cut at your lei -fire.
Evelyn, nurse is waiting for the laby.
We'll go down and breakfast."
"But. Luke," hesitated Mrs. Darcy, "you
'ti't leave Freddy there?"
"Won't ; I'd like to know why not? It's
temper, and nothing else, that is at the bot
tom of all (here demonstrations, and I'll
r.'B'iucr that temper or I'll know the reason
-y. It ought to have been checked long
but you are so ridiculously indulgent.
There is nothing I have so little tolerance
fir as a bad temper nothing- that ought to
k severely and promptly dealt with."
"But if he'll say he's sorry, Luke?"
Mr. Darcy rapped sharply at the panels of
tie door: "Are you sorry for your naughti
ie, young man '!"
A treh outburst of screams and a rencw-
ot the tattoo was the answer.
"I am sure he is sorry, Luke," pleaded
the all-extenuating mother, but Mr. Darcy
f;i.jk his head.
Lntire submission is the only thing I
listen to," he said shortly. "I tell you.
r-re!yn. I am determined to uproot this
temper."
Kvelyn. with a dewy moisture shadowing
h'reyelx-hes, and a dull ache at her heart,
'-'lowed her liege lord down to the breakfast
t;We, with as little appetite for the coffee,
kat and cu.es as might be.
A tail, blue-eyed young lady, with a pro
fion of bright chestnut hair, and cheeks
lie rose velvet, was already at the table
when th-y descended, by uame Clara Pruyn,
ylineaire Mrs. Darcy's sister. She opened
ter eyes rather wide as the two entered.
Good gracious, Evy, what's the matter?"
'NV.hing," answered Luke.tartly. ''Mrs.
"arey, y,m appear to forget that I hava eat
en no breakfast."
oni(thiug is the matter, though," said
t'ara shrewdly. "What is it, Evelyn?
Luke had one of his tantrums?"
'-like set down hiscoiTee cup with a sharp
'dick. ''
ou use very peculiar expressions, Miss
Prnyn."
''Very truly ones," said Clara saucily.
Jelyn smiled in spite of herself. "It's
i;y Freddy, who feels a little cross, and"
A little cross !" interrupted the indig
ent husband. ' "I tell you, Evelyn, it's
line time that temper was cheeked. Oh,
parrot ! what an intolerable screeching
fce keeps up. Mary, take that bird into the
kilchen, or I shall be tempted to wring its
neck. Strange that a man can't have a lit
tle peace once iii a whilj I What does ail
the eggs, Evelyn ? I thought I had asked
you to see that they were boiled fit for a
Christian to cat."
Mr. Darcy gave his egg, shell and all, a
vindictive throw npon the grate. Evelyn';!
brown eyes sparkled dangerously as the ob
served the ruanojuvre, but she made nore
niark. "And the plates arc as cold as stone, when
I've implored you again and again, that they
might be warmed. Well, I shall eat no
breakfast this morning."
"Whom will you punish most?" demand
ed Miss Clara. "Evelyn give mo another
cup of coffee; it's perfectly delightful."
Luke pushed his chair back with a ven
geance, and took up his stand with his back
to the 6re, both hands under his coat tails.
"Please, sir," said the servant, advancing,
"the gas bill the man says would you set
tle it while "
"No!" roared Luke, tempestuously;
"tell the man to go about his business ; I'll
have no small bills this morning I won't be
so persecuted."
Mary retreated precipitately. Clara rais
ed her long brown eyelashe?.
"Do you know, Luke," she said demure
ly, "I think you would feel a great deal bet
ter if you would do just as Fred lydoes lie
down flat on the floor and kick your heels
against the carpet for awhile. It's an ex
cellent escape valve when your choler gets
the better of you."
Luke gave his mischievous sister-in-law a
glance that certainly ought to have annihi
lated her, and walked out of the room, clo
sing the door behind him with a bang that
would bear no interpretation. Then Clara
came around to her sister, and buried her
pink face in Evelyn's neck.
"Don't scold mo Evy, please ; I know I've
been very naughty to tease Luke so."
"You have spoken nothing butthe truth,"
said Evelyn quietly, u ith her coral iips com
pressed, and a scarlet spot burning on either
cheek. "Clara. I sometimes wonder how I
can endure thj daily cross of my husband's
tern per."
"Temper!" said Clara, with a tossof her
chestnut brown hair. "And the poor dear
follow hasn't the least idea how disagreeable
he makes himself. "
"Only this morning," said Evelyn, "he
punished Freddy with unrelenting severity
for a fit of ill humor which he himself has
duplicated within the last half hour. I am
not a moralist, but it strikes me that the
fault is rather more to be censured in a full
grown reasoning man than in a child."
"Evelyn," said Clara gravely, "do you
suppose he is beyond the power of cure?"
"I hope not; but what can I do? Shut
him up as he shut up little Freddy?"
Evelyn's merry, irresistable lauuh was
checked by the arch, peculiar expression in
Clara's blue eyes.
"The remedy needs to be something short
and sharp," said Clara, "and this dark clos
et (.yMeiu certainly combines both requis
itcs. Tears and by-tsrics wi t: payid t ut
onz ago in matrimonial skirmishes, ynu
know. Evy."
"Nonsense !" laughed Mrs. D:ircy. rising
from the breakfast table, in answer to her
husband's peremptory sumnions from above
stairs, while Clara shrugged her shoulders
and went to look for her work basket.
LuLe was stauding in front of his bureau
drawer, flinging shirts, collars, cravats and
stockings recklessly upon the bed room
floor.
"I'd like to know where my silk handker
chiefs are, Mis, Darcy?' he fumed. "Such
a state as my bureau is in is enough to drive
a man craz !"
"It's enough to drive a woman crazy, I
think .'" said Evelyn, hopelessly, stooping
down to pick up a few of the scattered arti
cles. "You were at the bureau last, Luke. It
s your old fault !"'
"My fiult of course it's my fault!"
snarled Luke, giving Mrs. Darcy's poodle a
kkk that sent him howling to his mistress.
'"Anything bat a woman's retorting, re
criminating tong"e. Mrs. Darcy, I won't
endure il any longer!"
"Neither will I!" said Evelyn, resolutely
advancing, as her husband plunged into the
closet after his busiues coat, and promptly
shutting and lucking the door, "I thiuk I've
endured it long enough and here is an end
of it!"
"Mrs. Darcy, open the door!" said Luke,
scarcely able to credit the evidence of his
senses.
"1 shall do no such thing!" said Mrs.
Darcy, composedly, beginning to re ai range
shirts, stockings, and flannel wrappers in
their appropriate receptacles.
"Mrs. Dar cy!" roared Luke, at a fe
ver heat of impotent rage, "what on earth
do you mean ?"
'I mean to keep you in that clothe.3 press,
Mr. Darcy, until you have made up your
mind to come out in a more amiable frame
of mincL If the system succeeds with Fred
dy, it certam'y ought with you ; I am sure
your temper is more intolerable than his."
There was a dead silence of full sixty sec
onds in the closet, then a sudden burst of
vocal wrath.
"Mrs. Darcy, open the door this instant,
madam!"
But Evelyn went on humming a saucy
little opera air, and arranging her clothes.
"Do you hear me?"
"Yes I hear you."
"Will you obey me?"
"Not until yon have solemnly promised
me to put some sort of control en that tem
per of yours ; not until you pledge your
self to treat your wife as a lady should be :
treated; not as a menial."
"I won't!" "
"No? Then in that easel hope yon
don't find the atmosphere at all oppressive
there, as I think it probable you will re
main there some time."
Another sixty seconds of dead silence, '
then a sudden rain of heels and hands against
the relentless wooden panel.
"Let me out, I say, Mrs. Darcy ! mad
am, how dare you perpetrate this monstrous
piece of audacity ?"
"My dear Luke, hnw strangely you do
remind me of Freddy. You see there is
nothing I have so little tolerance for as a
bad temper. It ought to have been cheek
ed long ago, only you know I am so ridicu
lously indulgent." -
Mr. Darcy winced a little at the familiar
sound of his own words.
Tap-tap-tap came softly at the door. Mrs.
Darcy composedly opened it, and saw her
husband's little office boy.
"Please, ruciu, there's some gentlemen at
the office in a great hurry to see Mr. Darcy.
It's about the Applegate will case."
Mrs. Darcy hesitated an instant; there
was a triumphant rustle in the closet, and
her determination was taken at once.
"Tell the gentlemen that your master has
a bid headache, and won't be dowu towu
this morninng."
Luke gnashed his teeth audibly as soon
as the closing of the door admonished him
that he could do so with safety.
''.'Irs. Darcy, do you presume to inter
fere with the transaction of business that is
vitally important, ma'am, vitally import
ant?" Mrs. Darcy nonchalantly took up the lit
tle opera air where she had left it, letting
the soft Italian words ripple musically off
her tongue.
"Evelyn, dear!"
"What is it, Luke?" she asked, mildly.
"Please let me out. My dear, this may
be a joke to you, but "
"I assure you, Luke, it's nothing of the
kind. It is the soberest of serious matters
to me. It is a question whether my future
life shall be miserable or happy."
There was a third interval of silence.
"Evelyn," said Luke presently, in a sub
dued voice, "will you open the door?"
"On one condition only."
"And what is that ?"
"Ah, ha!" thought the little lieutenant
general, "he's beginning to entertain con
ditions of capitulation, is he ? "On condi
tion," she added aloud, "that ynu will break
yourself of the habit of speaking crossly
and sharply to me, and or, all occasions
keep your temper."
"My temper, i.idced!" spu'trrcd Luke.
"Just your temper," returned his wife,
serenely. "Will you promise?"
"Never, madam !"
Mrs. Darcy quietly took up a pair of hose
that needed mending, and prepared to leave
the room. As the door creaked on its hing
es, however, a voice came shrilly through
the opposite key hole.
"Mr.-. Darcy, Evelyn ! wife! wife!"
"Yes."
"You are not going down stairs to leave !
nie id this place?"
"Iam."
"Well, look here I promised."
"All and everything that I require?"
"Yes, all and everything that you require
confound all !"
Wisely deaf to the muttered sequel, Mrs.
P;ircy opened the door, and Luke stalked
sullenly out, looking right over the top of
her shining brown li.tir.
Suddenly a littla detaining hand was laid
on his coat sleeve.
"Luke, dear?"
"Weil'?'
"'Von't you give ma a kiss ?"
And Mrs. Darcy burst out crying on her
husband's shoulder.
"Well!" ejaculated the puzzled Luke,
"if you aren't the greatest enigma going.
A kiss? Yes a half a dozen of 'em if you
want, you kind hearted little turnkey. Do
not cry, pet, I sm net angry with you, al
though I suppose I ought to be."
"And I may let Freddy out?"
"Yes, on the same terms that his papa
was released. Evelyn was I very intolera
ble?" .
"If you hadn't been,Luke,I never should
have ventured on such a violent remedy."
"Did I make you very unhappy?"
"Very."
xnd the gush of warm sparkling tears
supplied a dictionary full of words.
Luke Darcy buttoned up his overcoat.put
on his hat, shouldered his umbrella, and
went to the Applegate will case, musing as
he went, upon the new state of affairs that
had presented itself for his consideration.
"By Jove!" he ejaculated, "that little
wife of mine is a bold woman and a plucky
one!"
And then he burst out laughing on the
steps.
It is more than probable that he left his
stock of bad temper at the law buildings
that day, for Evelyn ami Clara never saw
any more of it ; and Freddy i daily getting
the best of the peppery element in his in
fantile disposition.
Men, after all, are but children of a larg
er growth ; and so Mrs. Evelyn Darcy had
reasoned.
Why is twice ten like twice eleven ? Be
cause twice ten is twenty, and twice eleven
is twenty futo.
"Whosepigsaretho.se, my lad?" "WThy
they belong to that 'ere big sow." "No I
mean who is their master?" "Why, that
little 'un ; he's a rare 'uu to fight."
WHE2T HAEY WAS A LASSIE.
The maple trees are tinged with red,
The birch with golden mellnw.
And high above the orchard wall .
Ilang apples, rich and yellow ;
And that's the way through yonder lane
That look! so still and grassy
The way X tock one Sunday eve,
When Mary was a lassie.
You'd hardly think that patient face, t
That looks so thin and faded,
Was once the very sweetest one
That ever bonnet shaded ;
But when I went through jonder lane,
That looks so still and grawty,
Thot e eyes were bright those cheeks were fair,
When Mary was a lassie.
Eut many a tender sorrow,
And many a patient care,
Have made those furrows on the face
That used to be so fciir.
Four times to yor.der churchyard,
Through the lane so still and grassy,
We've borne and laid away our dead,
Since Mary was a Iasie.
And so you fee I've grown to love
The wrii.kles more than ro.-es ;
K.irth winlor floners are sweeter far
Than all fpring's oewy posies;
They'll curry us through yonder lane
That lt,oks to stUl ar.d gras-y
Adown the lane 1 used to go
Wbcu Mury was a la."ie.
HOMELY EETTY.
Ilestc Gray ran down to-the parlor to
execute one of the uumorous missions with
which she was honored by the less energetic
uiemlxTs of the family.
As she stood there she was startled by the;
sound ot approaching footsteps, an J looked
anxiously around for some way of escape.
llet;y might well be pardoned for not
wishing to be seen in her present attire;
especially as site recognized the voice ot one
of the intruders. Though near the middle
of the afternoon, she still wore her morning
dress, which though clean; was sadly wrin
kled ; her collar was awry, and the heavy
coils of her hair loose and disarranged by
the ever uestless fingers of little Willie.
Unable to make her escape by the door,
she sprang to the recess in one of the win
dows, drawing the heavy curtaius around
her, so as to effectually conceal her from
view.
She h id hardly time to do this, when
Edward Gaylard and Charles Clifford enter
ed, and taking a scat upon the sofa, very
near to where ilelty stood, half frightened,
half amused at their uneoneious proximity.
As the girl who had shown them in di-ap-
peared to inform tha young ladies uftlieir
arrival, the comersation between the two
gentlemen took atone and bearing "much
too confidential and personal to be agreea
ble to the unwilling listener.
"Mrs. Gray has an unusually interesting
family of daughters," lemarked Mr. Gay
lard. "Yes; the Misses Gray are certainly very
pretty," returned his companion.
"With the exception of Hetty. Not but
what she might loos very pretty in some
families,- but beside such excessively pretty
creatures as Jane, .Ellen and Lama, looks
decidedly homely."
"Homely?" responds! Mr. Clifford.
"Miss Hetty homely ? Weil, yes; I think,
on the whole, that she has a good claim to
that title.
Here the conversation was interrupted by
the entrance of Laura and Jane.
Poor Hettv's mind took in little of the
lively conversation that followed; though
its laughter and merriment jarred harshly
on her loving and sorely wounded heart.
She thought their visit would never be over
and as soon as it was.and she had an oppor
tunity to escape to her chamber, she burst
into tears, weeping for some minutea with
bat restraint.
Poor child! She hardly knew, until it
was thus rudely destroyed,! he little romance
that her active imagination had been weav
ing. Now, she was conscious that in her
heart she had believed that Mr. Clifford
liked, even admired her.
Her cheeks burned as she recalled how
often she had unconsciously expressed this
feeling and the pleasure it, gave her. And
all this time he bad considered her homely !
And her eyes filled afresh ith tears at the
thought.
You, dou'jtlcss. consider her very foolish,
reader. Dear lady, if sucn you are; wise
and philosophic as we will admit you to be,
would yotx like to be called homely? We
doubt whether any woman does like it, or
whether she ever acknowledges, to herself,
that she is so. She ir.y admit that she is
not handsome, that she has features quite
at variance with the lines of artistic beauty,
but that she is so destitute of personal at
tractions as to merit the appellation of home
ly is what few women have the courage to
believe of themselves, or to hear from the
lips of others.
But Hetty, nith all her foolishness, was
no coward. She was not' afraid to look
truth in the face, however disagieeable
might be the story it told ; and going to the
mirror, she gazed long and eanestly on the
features reflected there, scrutinizing it in
every detail, ns she had nev-er done before
We are forced to acknowledge that the
reflection presented was not of the most flat
tering description.
Heroines of romance can weep, ml Mi-
turn, passing through the "briny flood" only
to shine with increased lustre aud beauty
indeed, that seems to be their normal con
dition but on the ordinary mortals, from
which our heroine is taken, it has quite a
different effect.
The large grey eyes were dim and heavy
the rosy flush had forsaken the cheeks and
taken refuge in the tip of a nose, not re
markably ugly, yet evidently constructed
more with a view' to use than ornament,
while the usually frankly smiling tuouth had
a very woebegoue,disconsolate expression.
As Hetty gazed, she was stung with a feel
ing of self -contempt that she should have
been thus deluded. How could she have
believed herself personally attractive, least
of all to a man like Charles Clifford ?
No; love was not for her at least riot the
love she sought. But she would not yield
torepinings; she would interest herself in
the dear ones around her ; she would take
up her life work strongly an 1 hopefully, not
doubting bu that she would, in the erd,
Bud peace.
But with all her self-condemnation, Hetty
could not acquit Mr. Clifford i f blame. She
recalled words, and look, ard tones, that
conveyed more meaning than any words
could, and which convinced her that he had
wilfully milled and trifled with her.
"I have been foolish," she thought, "hut
he has been worse than foolish. He must
have been inwardly much amused at my
simplicity and credulous vanity ; but he will
have to seek some other recreation for the
future."
They were to have a little social gathering
in the evening, to which Hetty had looked
f.irwa d with pleasure, but ficm which. now,
.she would gladly have absented herself. But
a course so unexpected would be sure to call
forth unpleasant remarks and inquiries; so
she determined to appear.
But, instead of wearing the dress she had
intended, and which she blushed now as
she recalled it she had thought would make
her pleasing io bis eyes, she chose one of a
dark, grave color, attiring her elf as plainly
as she could for such an occasion.
Contrary to her usual custom, Hetty did
not lu.ike her appearance below until nearly
all the guests had assembled. Mr. Clifford
was present, which Hetty felt rather than
saw.
The same sut!e magnetism warned Mr.
(
Clifford of Hetty's entrance, but he was en
gaged in lively conversation with Miss Jane,
and was too well bred to make any public
demonstration of his feelings. A single
glance sufficed to show him whither she had
retreated, and he soon contrived to make his
way to that end of the room, and even to
scure a seat by her side.
How near we can be to people, and yet
how far apart. Mr. Clifford felt this, espe
cially when he looked into Hetty's cold face
and averted ey'ts. - How different from the
smile and blush with which she had former
ly greeted liim.
"Are you well to night, Hetty?"
That look and t&in of teiider interest would
once have called forth very different feelings.
"I am quite well, Mr. Clifford'"
"Mr. Cliffoid !" Could it be that she had
taken offence at In calling her by her Chris
tian name? Ha had often done so of lato.
and she had evinced no displeasure.
I feared you might not be welj because
you seem so strange so different from what
I have ever known you."
"Few of us are what we seem to be. For
instance, you are not speaking to me as you
feel, or as you would speak ot me to others."
Here, unable to conceal her indignation at
what she considered to be the part he was
acting, Hetty arose and took herself to an
other part of the room, leaving Mr. Clifford
astonished and bewildered at her unaccount
able words and manner.
He had no further opportunity of speak
ing to her durhg the evening, but tho more
he pondered on it, the more ho was con
vinced that some one had been saying some
thing to his discredit, and he determined
to seek an early explanation.
Willi this object in view, he cillel at Mrs.
Grey's the next morning.
It being quite early for visiters, he" found
Hetty quite by herself.
She arose at Mr. Clifford's entranne.
" I will apeak to my sisters, "slife said,
tinning to the door.
" But it is not your sisters, but yon-, that
1 have come to see. Please resume your
seat, and listen to me. "
" Mr. Clifford does not discover his usual
good taste iu seeking the society of one per
sonally so unattractive. "
"Unattractive! my dear Miss Hetty;
to me you are the sweetest, the most charm
ing "
Hetty's checks flushed indignantly.
"3'a, Mr. Clifford! That you should con
sider nie. what I, myself, heard you call me,
I have no right to complain.
You, doubtless, spoke truly and as you
thought. But that you should continue
to act so false and deceitful a part is what I
cannot, will not endure. "
"To what do you refer?"
" I refer to what you said to Mr. Gay
lird, yesterday morning, in this very room ;
and which, by the merest chance, I over
heard." A sudden light flashed on Mr. Clifford's
mind.
"Is that all ? True ; I called you homely,
that term so wrongly applied and construed
perhaps homeVA-e would have better ex
pressed my meaning Diir IIJtty, could you
have looked into heart, when I ppoke
thus, you would not so strangely have mis
understood me ; you would have kn-wn
that what 1 said sprang from my faith in
your ability to make home the dearest and
brightest place on earth. Ah ! if you would
only consent to be the joy and sunshine of
my home f
We all know what a beautifier love is es
pecially when it is recognized aud returned
and certainly Hetty's fairer sisters never
looked more lovely than she, as she yielded
to the fond embrace to which she was folded.
And we doubt as to whether all their
beauty won for them such a loving heart,
or so happy a home as fell to the lot of
"Homely Hetty."
A Dull Clerk.
Fickcrrsel, a successful dry goods mer
chant of Boston, was waited upon at his ho
tel by a gentleman fanner who was desirous
of getting a boy,for whom he was guardian,
a "place" in Boston of course he was an
uncommon smart boy, quick at figures, strong
of intuition, and one every way tit, as he
should "judge," to become a merchant.
Pickernel thought itover,a-d 3:dd he would
try and make a place for him. In due time
the boy arrived at Piekerncl's store, his
broad face ruddy with health, aud soapy
from the morning wash, his clothes ne.v
and uncomfortable, ami a stiff dickey cut
ting his 'ears. He announced him.-elt as
the boy.
"Ah, you are the boy, arc you?!' said
Pickernel.
"Yes, I suppose so," replied the yoriiig
ster. "Well, come in here, then ; I am veiy
busy, but will examine you in a fe.v practi
cal questions."
"Well," said Pickernel. "suppose a lady
should come in here, and buy a dress of fit
teen and a half yards of calico for eleven
and a hait cents a yard, what would it come
to?"
The boy looked at his questioner, at the
i .i ... -.,
ceiling, at tue njr, in a slate ol bewilder-j
ment.
"How much ca!i"k?r?'' he asked.
"Fifteen and a half yards." !
"What price?" i
"Eleven aud a half cents."
He thought a moment.
"Well," said he, "I'm darned if I b'lieve
any woman wanted so much cloih as that
for a dress."
This was -.throwing up the sponge, and
Pickernel put another question.
"How much would live and a hall pound
of tea come to, at seventy five cents and
three quarters per pound?"
He received thin pretty much the same
as the other, and alter waiting a moment,
tie asked
"Was it reen or black tea?"
With jut answering, I'tckeniol put anoth
er qui stion
"Suppose I should send you out-with a
two dollar bill, and you should buy fourteen
and a li.i!f pounds of beef at seven a
had cents a pound, hoV much luu.iey would
you hove left ?"
'i'lio boy looked at hum tor an instaut, and
then indulged in a low whittle.
"You don't suppose," said he, "you can
get beef auywhereat seven aud a iiuil' cunts
a pound, do ye?"
Pickernel gave up at this. He asked
him i.o more questions, but sent biui back
next day with a Icier, stating iii a no did
nit think Le would answer.
Wishing forMoney.
"I wish that 1 had Wis money," said a
young, hearty-looking muu ad A millionaire
passed hiiu in the street. Aud so has wish
ed many a youth before him who devotes so
mueh time to wishing, but never does one
of these draw a comparison between their
several fortunes. The rich man's money
looms up like a balloon before them, hiding
unknown cares and anxieties, from which
they ara free ; keeping out of ight those
bodily ills that luxury breeds, aud all the
mental horrors of ennui and satiety; and
fear of 'death that wealth footers, the jeal
ousy of life an J lovo from waio't it is ins'jp
nrable. Let none ?ish for unearned gold. The
sweat by which it is gathered is the only
sweat by which it is preserved for enjoy
ment. Wish for no mail's uiouey. The
health, strength, freshness, and sweet s.!eep
of youth aro yours. Young love by day
and nijiht, encircles you. Hearts unsuiled
by the deep sin of covetou-ness beat loudly
with your own. Noma ghoul like, listen fer
the death tick in your chamber; your shoes
have value iii turn's eyes only when you
tread ou them. The smiles that no wealth
can purchase greet you living; and tears
that rarely drop on rosewood coffins, will fall
from pitying eyes upon you dying, l'ou
have to cat, to drink, to wear, enough ;
then you have ail the rich man hath. What
though he fares more sumptuously ? God
loves him none tho more, and man's respect
in such regard comes ever mingled with his
envy. Nature is yours in ail her glory, her
ever beautiful face smiles peace upon you.
Her hills and valleys, fields and flowers,
rocks and streams, and holy places know
no desecration in the step of poverty, but
welcome ever to their wealth of beauty.rich
and poor alike.
An old lady on a train, near Lafayette,
hearing the brakeman sing- out "Ubank's
(Jut !" tallied to the door and asked, "Is he
cut bad?" -
A man was lately sent to the lunatic asy
lum for persisting in planting hore-chest-nuts
in expectation Of raising sorrel colts.
Some "Horrid man " says that iu the
present style of dressing- young ladies' hair
it is hard to tell which is switch.
Why does the new moon resemble a gid
dy youth? Because it is too young to give
much reflection.
What animal has the greatest amount of
brains? The hog of course, for he his a
hogshead-f ulL
Tb.2 housebreaker who broke into a Batu
ralist's the other night came of! with a flea
in his ear!
A love that is never reciprocated Neu
iaUio affection.
35u$inc girrrtont.
A.
W. WALTERS. Attorxet1 at Ia
Clearfield. Pa. Office in the Coart llouso.
VALTF BARKETT, Attorney atl.aw, Clear
1 ' -f'jL1.'?-. Alay 13,1383.
1?1. W.GRAHAM. Dealer in Dry-Oooda. Oro..
XJ rios, iiMrdware. Wueensware, Woodonware
Ijvis.ortc., AUrKet .Street. Clearfield. Pa.
nlVr VNIVtISO B1.r in Dry-Good..
1 La l.es Fancy (loods, H,t ,nd c'
fchjiejjond StjClearfield, Pa. .,pIJ
TERRELL A BIOLKK, Dialers fn.W,,.
LL an, manufacturers of Tio nd Sheet-iron
tare, -second Mreer. Clearfield. P. Jane 66
li (.J.uui.t.wmcb and Clock Maker.anl
mm, nr la mcnes. Jewelry. Ac
Room in
(irahaui's row, Marketstreet.
Nov. 16.
HBUCHElt SWOOrjS. Attorney at L.w.Cle.r
. field, la. Off.ei in ilraham'? Row. fourdoo i
wjcHiuf Urabam A lyr.tcn'f store. Nov. Id.
B M'EXALLr. Attorneynt Law. Clearfielc
t) . 11. Practices in Clearfield and adjoin:igj
aunties. Office in new brick building of J.Bpja
--L"re,"'t' ou8 tioor ouln of Lanich'a Hotel.
I TEST. Attorney at Law. Clearfield. Pa., will
. attend promptly to all Legal business entrust
ed to his care in Clearfield ar.d adjoining eonn
ties Oifice un Market street. July 17, 1867.
rp:i )MAS H. FORCE Y. Dealer in -Pquare and
.s.i wed I. amber. Drv-'l oods. Qucensware, Oro
ceries. Flour, lirain. Feed, Bhcou, Jte , Ac., Ora
hnint .n. Clearfield county, Va. Oct 10.
IP. KKATZEK. Dealer in Dry -Goods. Clotoinfj,
. Hardware Que-:iswar, Groceries. Provi
sioni.eto . iM;irkct Street
eaily opposite the
Jane. 18f.i.
t'mirt House. Clearfield. V
IT
P.TSWTCK A IRWIN. Dealers in Drills.
Medicines. Paints. Oils. Stationary. Perfume
ry l an-y doods. Notions, etc., etc.. Market street,
Cicn field. Pa Dee. 6,1865.
fi KKATZeil SOX. dealers in Dry Goods,
V . Clothing, ll.irdware. Qoecnsware. Groee-rii-s.
I'roi-isions, Ac., Second Street Clemi field;
Pn Dee 27.1S65.
J
)I1N ill'EUCil. Manufacturer of all kinds oi
11 o also in all e to order Coffins, on short notice, ana4
itteuds funerals with a hearse. Aprl0.'55.
1CIJ ARD MOSSOP, Dealer in Foreignand Da
i V mestic Dry Goods. Groceries. Flour. Ba'wfi,'
Liipiors. Ac. Room, on Market street, a faw d6ors
west ol .1 onrncl Ofire. Clearfield. Pa. Apr27.
'ALLACK A FIELDING. ArroR.Ers at Law
Clearfield. Pa ifX'flire in res denee of W. A:
Wnlloco Legal r)usines.of all Kinds attended to
wiii promptness and fidelity. .fan.5,'70.yp
W, A VAL'.ACE. FKANI FUCLDIXO
TT W SjATH. Attorne v at Law. Clearfield,
II. Pa., will attend promptly to business en
trusted to tits cure Office ou second floor of new
building adjoining County Satiuual RanK.and
nearly opposite the Court House. June 30, 'fid
'CITLLOCGU A KREBS,Attor.nets-at-Law,
jri Olenrfield. Pa. All legalbusiDcss prompt
lei
to
ly aucuded
Consultations in Knglish or Det
ect. 27, 1169.
loan.
T. J. U"CI'LU0H.
V. L. KBKBS.
l.tEPKKICK LEITZINGER, Manufacturer of
1' a!l kinds of Stone-ware, Clearfield, Pa. Of
deri. solicited wholesale or retail lie alsokeep
od band and forsale an assortment of earthens
ware, of his own manufacture. Jaa. 1. 1.S63
-T M. HOOVER. Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
IS . TOBACCO. Cl'iARS AJVl) S.VfW. A
!itr assortment of pipes, cigar cases. Ac, con
Mrtntly of hand. Two doors Eait of tbe Post
Office. Clearfield. Pa, May 18.'6fl.
" VT ESTER N HOTEL. Clearfield, Pa This
y f well known hotel, near the ourt House, is
worthy the patronnge of the public. The. table
will be supplied with the bert in the market. The
best of liquors kept. JOHN DOUGHERTY.
JOHN H.FL'LFORD, "Attorney at Law. Clear
l field. Pa. Office on Market htreet, over
Hart -wick A Irwin's Drugstore. Prompt attention
given to the seeuringorUounty claims. Ae. and to
all legal business. " March 27, 1867.
l T II O II n7 M. D.,PnrsiciAN and
St RHKON, having located at Kylertown.
Pa., offers his professional services to the cM
zens ol that place add vicinity. Scp.2V-ty
wm . n. ARHfsTRONo. : : : : : sxiivr.v mnx
VRMSTR'lX A LINS, Attobsiys-.it Lav.
Wiiliainsport. Lyf.-u.ini County. Pa. A'.l
le.:! bus ncss ci.t: b.-u-J tu mcia will be careful. y
and priiru;ily attended to. (Aug 4, rt-ftm.
,f ALUKRT.A BR'VS.. Dealers In Dry Grol,
I 'irov-eries, Hardware. Queensware. Flour
tun. etc.. Woodland. Cloarfiuld county. Pa. Uif
extensive dealers in all kindsof sawed luml r
shingles, aud square timber. Orders solicited. '
Woo J land. P.. Aug. Iiliu.ls.13
fR J. P. BURCHFIELD Late Furgeon t iU
I J Sid nest 1'enn a Vols., having returrtl
Irom the nriny, offers his professional scrvtce.'",o
the citizens of Clearfield and vicinity. Provi
sional calls promptly attended to. Office uii
South-Fas? corner of 3d and Market Streets.
Oct. 4. 1S65 Gmp.
QUI1VJ5VOI!. The undersigned of..:
his services to the public, as a Survey- r.
He may be fonnd at bis residence in Lawir
township, when not engaged; or addressed I.
lertnrat Clearfield. Perm's.
March i'.th. 18t7.-tf. J 4ME5 MITCHELL.
T E FFKRSON LIT Z, 51. 1 .
" Physician and Surgeon,
Having located at Opeeola. Pa , offers his prr-f -sinnal
services to the people of that plaew and -i -rounding
country.. All calls promptly at?it..i l
to. Office and re.idenceon 'Jurtin Street, foii ,:
ly occupied by Dr. Kline. May 19,
J.
K. H OTTO R 1- S
PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY,
MARKET STREET, CLKARritXTt; PE!'.:
Negatives made in cloudy as well as in tur
weather. Constantly en hand a good assor'u I
of Frames. Stereoscopes and Stereoscopic Vi .
Frames, from any style of moulding, madt-
oraer.
dec. 2,'6-vjy. 1A-W-:!
'IlilO.UAS W. MOOKK, Land Surv.j -r
and Conveyancer, llavine recently .
eated in the Borough of Lumber City, and rcMMn
sumed the practice of Land Surveying. res;-
fully tenders bis professional services to the ik
ers and speculators in lands in Clearfield and r
jomg eoanties ueeosoi conveyance neatly r
rented. uice ana residence ona door Lui
Kirk 4-Spencers Store
Lumber City. April 14, 1869 ly.
A L L A C E
WALTERS.
Reai. Estate Agents axd CoNTEraxceas,
Clearfield, Pa
Real estate nought and sold, titles eismir'd.
tszee paid, conveyances prepared, and intarai -ces
tat en.
Office in new building, nearly opposite Court
House. Jaa S 1870.
W. X. WALLACE. J- M.AKC WALTgSl.
COLDIERS' BOUNTIES. A recent
has passed both IJou!-esof Conprecs anil
signed by the President, giving soldiers whoen
listed prior to 22d July, lbi'.l .served one year or
more and were honorably discharged, a bounty
of flflt).
(7iiounties and Pensions collected by me for
thoseentiiled to tbein-
WALTER BARRETT, Att'y at Ls.
Aug. I5th, IS66. Clearfield, Pa.
D
RIEl) FRUIT, at reduced prices, at
May 129.
MOSSOP'S.
WOOL WANTED 100.000 pourds wool want
ed, for which the highest nviaei r-rw-e will
be paid, by J. P. KUAiZthV.