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EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1867.
Xal-ttlo Poarl.
I was bitterly discontented that morn
ing, and there is no denying it discon
tented ith my home, my husband, even
with my baby. I rcmembor the morning
well ; it was gray and cloudy, with a low,
dragging mist, that chilled one to the bone,
and hung the trees with reeking moisture.
Tho black mud, about the door of our
western home, was thick and deep ; and
the bare floor of our one room was badly
stained and soiled by the careless feet of
the rough-shod workingmen. I had been
cleaning up all the morning, but tbe more
I cleaned, the worse matters seemed to
grow ; soap and sand only served to render
the black foot-marks more visible ; and
when a sudden puff of wind whirled the
smoke and ashes down the pipe of my
cooking-stove, covering the books and
tables 1 bad just taken so mucn puins in
dusting off, I threw myself in the rocking
chair, and burst icto a passion cf despair
ing tears.
We brought the rocking chair with us,
Ned and I, when we left our cottage, on
the outskirts of the city, and journeyed
westward. It was a pretty cottage ; my
eyes fill with tears even now at the
thought of it. with its low, breezy windows,
through which the odor of roses floated
tho live-long summer ; and its clean, well
ordered rooms adorned with those charm
ing, useless, little tojj, that go so far
toward making a home pleasant and at
tractive. It was my first home after mar
riage aod a woman always loved that
home better than aoy other. We were
happy, Ned and I; as cozy and comfort
able as two robins in the heart of a sum
mer apple tree. Ned was a cierk, but
with a crood salary, with fome little addi
tions flowing in now and then from other
resource. And when our baby came,
"Liulo Pearl," as we called her, our hap
piness was complete.
But altera while the new rapture began
t9 cool ; and as Little Pearl's blue eyes
deepeoed and expanded, Ned began to
cait about hrni in a sage and fatherly
manscr.
"We muat do tho beet we can, for Little
Pearl's eake, Bell."
That was the opening remark a dis
closure of his plans followed. lie had
caught the western fever. "Westward
the star of cniDire makes its way," Nei
quoted, with te!Iing empha?:s, adding,
"we mut follow, Bell, and build up a
name and home for Little Pearl !"
I assented I alwavs did to Ned's
plans; though, in my secret soul, I felt
that the movement was a had one. We
sold our pretty cottage and furniture at a
considerable sacrifice ; Ned left his clerk
ship; and the November after Little
Pearl's birth found us in our Western
home.
Ned had urged me to bring out our
servants; but in a fit of high-etrung hero
ism, I determined to be muid-of-all-work
myself.
Ned would havo to sacrifice his eas
and oomfort I would not be behind him.
It was comparatively light in the begin
ning, when only Ned and myself wero to
provide for; but after a while tho hired
men came; and baby required more atten
tion every day. The fall rains set in,
converting the spongy soil into black,
adhering mud. 1 worked late and early,
but found it impossible to take care ol
my babe, and keep our rude homo in any
thing like order. I bore up aB long as I
could ; but at last my strength utterly
failed, and, sitting down in the rocking
chair, I sobbed like a silly child. I tho't
of our old home, with its pretty, well or
dered apartments; of the hours of plcasan
leisure and social enjoyment to which I
had been accustomed ; and then, with a
fresh gush of team, I looked out at the
low, trailing mist, and around the email,
untidy room in which I was imprisoned.
It was wrong in Ned to bring me to fuch
a place, against my will, too, I thought
bitterly.
At that moment, 1 heard the voice of
the sick hired man calling for water, and
catching up the pitcher, 1 brushed away
my tears and ran up to. tho rude loft
where he lay. As I reached the bed, I
saw by the sun that it was almost noon,
and dinner was to cook for Ned and the
hired men. . Giving the invalid his water,
I paused a moment to mix a draught of
medicine, my thoughts full of the smoking
stove, and the duties that awaited me
below ; just then, shrill and clear, came
Little Pearl's cry. I threw down the dose
I was mixing, exclaiming, almost angrily :
' It's no use, I can't get along, no mat
ter bow hard I strive. What fchall I do
now? Oh, dear! I do wish I had no
baby !"
My very finger-tips thrilled with terror
the instant the unwomanly wish had passed
my lips; and, clearing the steps at two or
three bounds, I rushed to the corner
where her crib stood, eager to clasp her
to my bosom, and pour out my remorse in
tears and kisses. ' I snatched aside tbe cur
tain. The crib was there. So was the
snowy pillow, bearing the damp impression
of her head ; but Little Pearl was gone.
For the instant, I stood dumb and almost
senseless, then a swift thought came to
my relief.
"Ned ha6 stolen hex to frighten me," I
cried,-and rushing out, I searched for him
;n vain. " " - - - "...
The mist was thickening into rain. I
I WOULD RATHER BE RIGHT THAKPRISIDENT. Hbhrt Cut.
knew well enough that he was too careful
of her to expose her in such a manner:
yet I clung to the belief that he had takon
her as I clung to my life. There were
fresh foot-prints in the black mud about
the door leading outward toward tbe wood
lot, where Ned and the men were at work.
I followed them, my head uncovered, un
mindful of the chill wind and driving
rain, plunging ancle-deep into the yield
ing soil, at every step. About half way,
I saw something in the path before me.
It was a little crimson stocking. My
heart leaped for joy. Ned had stolen her,
and she had kicked it from her foot on
tho way. It was cruel in him to frighten
me so. I wonder if he had heard that
silly wish of mine !
Half a mile from the house, I met him
and the men coming home to dinner. lie
started forward the moment he raw me.
"Why, Bell!" he said, "what's the
matter ? Is Little Pearl sick V
One glance at his white, startled face
convinced me that my hope was in vain ;
yet I cried out, angrily, "You've got the
child, Ned, you know you hayo don't
torture me any longer ?"
"Bell, what do you mean ?"
"She's gone Little Pearl. You stole
her, Ned, to frighten me."
"No, on my soul, Bell."
"Then eha'g gone ; God has granted my
wish. Oh, my baby !"
I was rushing past him, but he caught
and held me fast, commanding me to tell
him fill; and I did. And then his after
words thrilled my soul with horror.
"The Indians 1 the Indian boys!" ho
cried; "they must havo stoleu her.
Come !'
They followed him without a word, and
so did I. Over the spongy prairie mud,
the chill wind and rain driving in our
faces, through dense, dripping woods,
down to the shore of the water. Iut we
were too lato. The last canoe was moored
on the opposite shore. God had given
me my wish. I had no baby.
Little Pearl could not be found, altho'
our efforts were ceaseless. Her crib re
mained in its corner, with the impress of
her head on its pillow; but the little
laughing face that had looked up at us
from the depths of the coverlets was gone
forever. I had ample time to perform all
my household duties then. There was no
little quivering cry to detain me when I
was busy ; no .clinging . hands holding
mine and keeping them idle. My wish
had been granted.
The desolate, inconsolable sorrow of the
days that followed, no tongue can portray
the tender longing, tbe sharp, stinging
remorse. But we lived and worked, for
life and labor must go on, no matter how
fcore and weary our hearts may be. At
the end of five year?, Ned looked round
him on the ripe fruition of his most san
guine hopes. He had built him not only
a home, but a name, in the new country.
We had pleasant rooms, and luxuriant
furniture, and birds, and flowers, and all
the attributes that go to makeup a happy
home. Alldid I say? Not all. We
were childless. Little Pearl had never
come back, and God had given us no
other child to fill her place. But we de
sired no other, our grief for her loss being
dearer and more sacred than any new love
could ever have been.
Poor Ned! That unforgotten sorrow,
together with his arduous duties, made
him an old man before his time; tho sil
ver threads were thick on his temples, and
the furrows on his forehead deeply cut.
When we went back on a visit to our old
home, the friends of his youth did not
recognize him. His life had lost its im
pelling aim and motive.
One night, in tha great city, we were
returning from the opera, when a voice
startled us with,
"Please, sir, a penny to buy a loaf!"
It was midnight; the pavements were
glazed with ice, and the countless stars
overhead glittered in the cold blue sky
like so many points of steel. I was
dreaming of my home in the far west and
longing for the hour .of my return home.
A strange feeling of tenderness bound me
to the spot where I lost my Little Pearl.
I could not bear to be away from it be
cause of a foolish fear that she might
come back and I not be there to welcome
her.
The slender, pleading voice broke iu
upon my reverie, and glancing out of the
carriage window, I saw a smsll, childish
figure, and a tiny hand, blue and cold.
"Stop the carriage, Ned ; I shan't close
my eyes to-night if we pass that child."
My husband started up from his half
doze and obeyed me.
"What do you wan'?" ho asked, kindly,
bending over and taking tho child's Laud
in his.
"A penny, please, sir, to buy a loaf for
granny ; sheV sick."
Ned took a silver piece from bis pocket,
but I caught his arm bcl'oro he had drop
ped it into the littie, waiting hand. Some
thing in the soft blue eyes, looking up so
pleadingly in the winter starlight, thrilled
my heart to its inmost core. I yearned
to clasp the little shivering form to my
breast, to stroke back the tangled, golden
hair from the squalid, want-pinched face.
Take her up, Ned," I entreated ; "she
will freeze if we leave her here. We can
put her out whenever she likes."
And good natured Ned, who never de
nied me a thing in his life, complied.
Down dark and unfrequented streets into
one of the lowest haunts of vice and pov
erty ; then she guided us up a long flight
of stairs into a cheerless attic. An old
woman lay upon a heap of straw, her face
wearing that cold, greyish hue which is
the unmistakable precursor of death. .
."Have you come ?" she questioned, ea
gerly, as we entered; "gi me the loaf."
. .The child ran to her hide, and began
to stroke back her gray hair.
"A good lady, and gentleman's come,"
Bhe lisped, softly.
"I'm gtad jer come," she said, addres
sing JTed.- Fm goin', you jee, and some
winter. She ain't mine, though. I got
her from a squad o' Ingins, when my ole
man run a fiat-boat down the Mississippi.
They'd stole her from some one, and
bruug her by our cabin, and she was sich
a putty little thing that the ole man and
me struck a trade for ker. I alters kept
her clothes, the ones she had on, in case
her friends might know her, if they ever
tut-Ded up but they didn't; an' now I'm
goin', she'll be left to herself. You might
look arter her, madam, couldn't ye?"
"Where are the clothes she had on?"
asked Ned and I, eagerly, and in the same
breath.
She looked into my face inquiringly,
and then pointed to an old trunk. Ned
broke it open. There they were in a faded
heap; the dainty embroidered slip, the
tioy pinafore, and ote crimson stocking.
Its fellow lay iu the bottom of my drawer
in my far western home.
"Oh, Ned!" I eried, "she u Little
Pearl."
And po she was. We had found her at
last, our baby, our dailing.
Counterfeiting In tbe United
States.
The peculiar circumstances under which
our nationality was developed were favor
able to the growth of inventive genius.
This is eviuced in the wonderful strides
we have made in almost all the labor-saving
and mechanical arts. American
inventions are in demand all over the
world, and the highest personal honors
that our citizens have yet received abroad
are due to. the fertility of our genius in
thu important particular. In fact, we are
gradually achieving a reputation before
the world of being a nation of inventors.
Let us beware that a few unprincipled
men do not degrade this proud distinction
by making us seem to be a nation of
counterfeiters.
The ingenious and deserving men who
create and introduce valuable inventions
are public benefactors, and it is an out
rage that the fruits of their labor should
be so often stolen by unscrupulous imita
tors. The evil consequences of this spe
cies of rascality are not restricted to the
inveutors merely, but permeate every
interest and department of society, and
the men who are at tho bottom of it are a
stink in the nostrils of the body politic.
Thousands of dollars are annually filched
from the pockets of our industrious and
worthy citizens by the evil which we are
endeavoring to expose. Io fact, the sum
total of losses sustained by the people
through the cupidity of counterfeiters of
coiu and currency is an inconsiderable
fraction in comparison with the amount
of their contributions, unwittingly made,
to the counterfeiters of various commodi
ties. As instances of what is here com
plained of, take the inventor of genuine
Essence of Coffee, an article proved to be
of great use and convenience to travelers
on the Plains. No sooner is his article
made known than the market becomes
flooded with an endless variety of worth
less imitations, all labeled "Ebence of
Coffee,'' although most of them are as
innocent of even the slightest mixture of
coffee as Satan is innocent of holiness.
Of course, the real inventor is injured, as
the masses soon arrive at the conclusion
that such a thing as genuine Essence of
Coffee never had an existence at all. So,
too, the man who puts up genuine ground
spices soon finds that others are imitating
his pure article by putting up a compound
of corn meal with a little mustard, corn
meal with a little ginger, corn meal with
a little pepper, logwood with cayenne
pepper, &c., until the whole catalogue of
spices is one stupendous adulteration, and
the ingredients employed are not always
merely worthless, but absolutely poison
ous and detrimental to health aud life.
In short, there is hardly a single genuine
article of value that has not some such
homicidal attempts made upon its life by
men without conscience, whose only aim
seems to be to "put money in their purse,"
no matter how. Among the notorious
imitations of this character that have re
cently been foisted upon the public, the
most flagrant and unblushing is found in
the attempt to flood the country with
counterfeits of "Spear's Anti-Dust Cook
Stove," on article which our readers will
remember wo have frequently mentioned
in the columns of this journal a possess
ing uousual merits, and being at once an
honor to ito ingenious inventor and an
invaluable household convenience where
ever it i introduced. But Mr. Spear is
not permitted to reap the reward of his
invaluable invention unmolested. Small
imitators have arisen, and on the wings
one.rjughter look, arter. her4 .pointing to
tfor-chihL- SheVa."gbo3 little filing ;
I've had her with"mesix:'Ters come next
of Mr. Spear's well-earned popularity are
directing their ludicrous flight towards
the summit of fortune. Beware of them,
as their flight is as certain to end in dis
grace as the stoves they have botched
into shape, with a stolen trade-mark upon
them, are certain to result in disappoint
ment to all who may buy them. The
latter are inferior to Mr. Spear's stoves in
size, as they are inferior in every other
quality.
A word as to this difference in size : -All
stoves are sold by the size of tho boiler
holes on the top. Thus, for example, an
eight-inch boiler bolo is called an eight
inch stove, a nine-inch boiler hole a nine
inch stove, &c But within the last two
years the trick has been resorted to' by
some manufacturers of putting an eight
inch boiler hole on a seven-inch stove ;
so that the body of the stove, although
shown to be an eight-inch, is in reality
under size. This fraud is in many cases
practiced successfully, as not one woman
in a million, or man either, can detect
the deception by simple eye-measurement.
The dealer applies his rule to the boiler
hole; the latter is found to measure eight
inches, and so the stove is proved to be an
"eight-inch," when in reality it is very
much smaller than the true "eight inch"
size as sold by Mr. Spear. Of course, all
the sizes are liable to this species of mis
representation. Mr. Spear's ctove tifts its ovrn ashes
and makes no dust or dirt in a room ; the
counterfeit attempts to do the panie thing,
but, like ail other counterfeits (with clean
ly housekeepers), it will not pas3 current.
The counterfeit stove, instead of tilting
its own ashes, dirties the floor of the
kitchen, and gives the housekeeper double
trouble; she wishes she had never seen
it, and, like the man who has a sick head
ache, after drinking a cup of the extract
of coffee (counterfeit, of course), be ex
claims, "humbug !" and seriously doubts
if there be such a thing as "anti-uust"
stoves at all. That the execrable imita
tion anti-dust stoves, which we are here
exposing, are humbugs, we readily admit,
but they are no more like the genuiue
Spear artie'e than bad cider is like good
champagne.
"What we would especially impress upon
our readers is, that all genuine anti-dust
stoves have the name of "Spear" cast
upon them, and are only to be obtained,
in Philadelphia, at the stove headquarters,
No. 11 1G and 1118 Market street. Mr.
Spear, we are glad to - learn, has estab
lished agencies lor the sale of these cele
brated stoves in nearly every town through
out the United States ; but again we say,
beware of the spurious humbugs that are
recommended in their stead, and avoid
them as you would a plague. His imita
tors have stolen and appropriated his
trade-mark, "Anti-dust," which is a fright
ful breach of all law and public decency,
but as this name is the only thing about
the counterfeit stoves that beaTS any re
semblance to the genuine original, adven
turers with a small organ of Conscience
and a large bump of Imitation will hardly
surrender it without a struggle. That
these imitations should be offered and
placarded at 6toTe doors on our business
aveuues, for no other purpose than to
deceive people by inducing theru to throw
away their money on a miserable counter
feit, is positively disgraceful to the mer
cantile integrity of our city, and ahould be
rebuked by all honest people as aa insult.
Mr. Spear's Anti dust Stove has a large
oven, bakes bread evenly, while the coun
terfeit stoves have a small oven and either
burn the bread on one side, or do net
bake it at all. Mr. Spear's Anti-dust
Stove consumes the gas, thereby saving
fifty per cent, of fuel ; the counterfeit does
not burn the gas, consumes an extraordi
nary amount cf fuel, and is in all respects
an unmitigated humbug. We may here
state that Mr. Spear is the inventor of the
gas-burning, principle as applied to cock
ing stoves, and his patent has been coun
terfeited by Dearly every stove manufac
turer io the United States. One honorable
exception to this rule is the establishment,
in Pilttburg, of Messrs. A. Bradley & Co.,
who purchased the liight of this patent ;
but there are thousands of cook stove
sold with the word "Gas-burners" on them
that do not possess a 6iugle appliance
requisite for the consumption of gas. A
more shameful imposition can hardly be
imagined. We are iuformed that a small
concern in this city, some time since com
mitted an infringement upon Mr. Spear's
patent, and admitted the fact through
their attorney, at tho same time boasting
that they owned more patents than any
similar concern in the Ui.ited States, and
it is a well known fact that tho concern
referred to have, for the last two years,
been extensively manufacturing an imita
tion of Mr. Spear's Anti-dust Cook Stove;
and while they hac not the temerity to
cast Mr. Spear's trade-mark upon the
stoves they manufacture, they have, nev
ertheless, the audacity to use it on their
circulars for the purpose of assisting the
sale of a spurious article. Undoubtedly,
this wholesale uoiairness is the very high
est compliment to the merits of Mr.
Spear's invention, as no one would be fool
enough to counterfeit the bills of a bad
bank.
The question will naturally arise, why
does not Mr. Spear prosecute the people
who are thus infringing upon his rights?
"We understand that this unselfish leniency
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is, about to terminate, and that Mr. Spear
is going to commence suits forthwith
against all infringers of his patent Anti
dust Cook Stove, a8 a matter of protection
to himself and the public. Among needed
enactments, there are none more necessary
than a law that will adequately punish all
classes of counterfeiters.
And now, as multitudes of our people
will want new stoves during the coming
fall, we would again cautiou them to ht
aar of counterfeits. The counterfeiters
and dealers in counterfeits will spare no
pains to entrap the unwary.. They, in
iact, have gone so far as to furnish their
customers with circulars containing Mr.
Spear's trade mark, "Anti-dust Cooking
Stove," in order to facilitate the Bale of
the counterfeit article. "
rWe repeat, in conclusion, that the Spear
Anti-Dust "Cook" and "Parlor"" Stoves
are the most desirable stoves in the world,
and that the counterfeits are comparatively
a worthless cheat ; that noce are genuine
without the name of "Spear" upon them,
and that the only place to obtain them in
Philadelphia is at the Headquarters, JVo.
1116 and 1118 Mirket street, and that the
genuine Spear article may be obtained by
applying to the principal stove dealers la
any of the towns or cities of the United
States.
To stove dealers throughout the country
the agency for the sale of these celebrated
"Spear" stoves is an object worth sccuiing.
We throw out this suggestion as we leara
that some openings ot this character may
yet be obtained by prompt application. -Philadelphia
Press.
Spirit llappliiaS.
A correspondent of the Ilollidaysburg
Thij, writing from Huston towuship,
Blair county, under date of August 26th,
say?:
"The people of our neighborhood have
been for a week past very much excited
by spiritual manifestations in a house at
the Springfield Furnace Mine Bank. The
inmates of tho house are persons of integ
rity and good standing. An orphan gitl
a member of the family, who was the
special medium or victim of this pheno
menon of spiritual communication, also
bears a good character. Tho rapping
always commenced about nine o'clock in
the evening, and continued until after
midnight. Before appearing each night,
the medium experienced a dullness begin
ning at her feet and extending upwards.
Then a low tapping was heard over tho
floor, like some one walking, growing
louder as it approached the girl, ending
in loud knocks, like the stroke of a mallet.
One moment, it was overhead, then under
the floor, on the wall, &c. It would re
spond by distinct raps to every question.
It was asked how long since Mr. Lincoln
died, and the number of years was imme
diately given. So in regard to the lapse
of years since Stephen A. Douglas died.
A member of the family becoming vexed
at tho noise and confusion, remarked, ."I
am not afraid of you, my trust is in God,"
when there was such a succession of
"thundering knocks" that a portion ot
the plastering fell from the wall. People
came from a distance to investigate the
matter, believing it to be collusion or
trickery, and went away firmly convinced
that it was an intangible, unsubstantial
spirit, and fouud that "there are more
things in heaven and earth than were
dreamed of in their philosophy." The
rappings continued one week. The girl
had several convulsions, after which she
sank into a partial trance and the noises
were heard no more."
Gen. D. II. Hill, of the late Confed
erate army, has a high opinion of the
military skill of Joshua, and thinks he
displays a superiority over noted Generals
of later times. He says : "Joshua, the
successor of Moses, was distinguished by
the favor cf Heaven, and yet was one of
the most renowned military leaders of his
own or any other age. His strategy and
maneuvering furnish an interesting study,
at this day, to the student of military
history, lie will oec that the mistake
which Washington mado at Germantown,
in attempting to take Chew's house;
which Greene made at Eutaw, in attempt
ing to take the brick jail, Joshua did not
make when tho five Kings fled to their cave
or stronghold at Makkedah. He did not,
turn aside from the great object, but gave
orders : "Stay ye not, but pursue after
your enemies and smite the hindermost of
them; suffer them not to enter their cities."
Had Jackson at New Orleans been famil
iar with the tactics of Joshua, he would
have made his night attack of the 22d
December just before day, and thus have
anticipated the great victory of the 8th
of January. Is it not strange that mili
tary men in modern times, with all the
history and experience of ages beforo
them, can discover no mistakes in tho
campaigns cf Joshua, who marched and
fought au;cs before Alexander, Hannibal,
Cicar, and Napoleon ? Whence did ha
derive his strategy? Who taught him
the art of war ?"
President Johnson, who has "filled
all the ofiices in the gift of the people,
from that of alderman up to that of Pres
idout," has been elected an honorary
member of the Mutual base bail club of
New York city. 1