T11K TIMES NEAV BLOOM FIELD, PA., JANUA11Y 30,1877.
lilea oepineJ for the first time to cross his
lnliul, " I was not aware that you were
acqiminUHl with My old friend."
"O, yes, ho was my father's best
friend. I have known him long. It
' was he that mndo me promise to attend
you tit your sickness, though I dream
ad little then what was to have heen the
result." '
" Yes, yes, Richard,'1 said old l'otts
dam, while a merry twinkle played In
his gray eyes, " she loved me before she
loved you, and if she has not told you
about It, It fs because 1 made her prom
ise not to. , lHit tell me, my boy, have
you been thoroughly cured of your
disease V
"Most thoroughly."
. " There's none of It left 5"
V Not a shade."
u And you do not now hate all man
kind y '
" Doctor, if you love mo, don't men
tion (bat again, for it makes me feel how
-miserable 1 might have continued."
" And you would not elgh for the
wealth you have lost?"
" See what treasures 1 have gained,"
uttered Richard, as he drew his wife to
his bosom, and pointed to the cradle,
where slept his darling boy.
" Then, my boy, you really love life,
and find joy and happiness in living y"
" Yes, yes, my old friend, and every
night and morning I thunk God for It."
For several moments the old doctor re
mained silent, but there was a succession
of strange emotions visible upon his
countenance, and at length he placed his
band in his bosom, and taking there
from a sealed pocket, he handed it to his
young friend.
" Dr. Pottsdam, what is this '("' utter
ed Richard, as he gazed in astonishment
upon the contents of the package.
11 If you examine It, you will find it to
be bank notes to theamount of five hun
dred thousand dollars."
" I do not comprehend this, sir."
" It is simply the money due yoirfrom
.:11m various Insurance offices at which
your buildings were insured, together
with rents due, some cash which Fes
sendon had on hand, and the accumula
tion of interest.
"But my policies had expired."
" And did you think Fessendon such
a fool as not to have them renewed y
But here is another package."
Jk.8 the old man spoke, he placed a see
Mnd parcel In Richard's hands, remark
ling, as he did so:
u There are notes, bonds, deeds, mort
gages and certificates, to the amount of
half a million more. They are from
you old banker."
" But my banker failed," murmured
Richard, now utterly astounded.
" So he did, but Fessendon looked out
for your affairs ere the blow fell," re
turned Dr. rottsdom, and then taking
the young man's hand in his own he
continued:
" Come, RichardJ will now clear up
this affair at once. That dreadful mala
dy that affected you dreadful in its very
snake-like insidlousness had taken such
a hold upon you that no common meas
ures could have removed it, and under
its influence you might now have been
In your grave. You knew nothing of
your pecuniary affaire, and you cared
less, and a less honest man than your
agent might have robbed you of half a
million of dollars, and you would not
have known it. I found that all the
means within my direct power had fail
ed to restore your lost balance of mind
and as a last expedient I resolved to send
down here. I wrote to Forbush, minute
ly explaining your case, and giving him
exact modes for your treatment. One
great source of hope was in being able
. to bend your heart to some legitimate af
fection, and I knew of no one better
calculated for this than this same little
fairy that you now call your wife. She
knew not the end I had in view, nor did
she dream of nursing you more than a
week at the furthest, but the same means
that made you sick was able to keep you
so. That little chicken you ate for your
supper on the first night of your arrival,
contained the seeds of your subsequent
weakness, placed there by my instruc
tions and the same weakening potion
was continued to you for three weeks.
At length Forbush -discovered, not only
that Mary was beginning to love her
patient, but that you were also begin
ning to love your nurse, and the result
was certainly very, natural. . As soon as
this became apparent, your medicine
was discontinued, and you was allowed
to recover. You arose from your bed,
little dreaming that every grain of medi
cine you had taken hud been administer
ed for the very purpose of making you
sick, and in your ignorance you blessed
God and the doctor thut you had recov.
ored. The kind heart and the sweet
smiles of Mary, had done their work, for
they liud dragged your own heart up to
something like joy ; but yet I dared not
trust you back amid your old scenes till
ou liad learned something of real life,
and as soon as I became convinced that
you would make Mary your wife, the
work was easy. -1 resolved to practise a
wholesale deception upon you in order
to throw you for a time back upon your
own resources, and your unpardonable
Ignorance of yur own pecuniary aflUirs
rendered this an easy matter, for your
faithful agent at once Joined me In the
plot. Time lied on, and I saw that my
plans had succeeded even better than I
had hoped, for you were completely hap
py. Then, when God gave you this
sweet child, and you had loved It as the
object of your future care and tender re
gard, I knew that you was most perfectly
cured. Richard, my course of treatment
has been somewhat harsh, hut I trust
that the loving smile of your fond wife,
and the sweet fuceof your innocent babe,
will speak pardon for what I have done."
A moment Richard gazed into the
face of his old friend, and, as a full com
prehension of the affair rested in his
mind, he sank upon his knees and
grasped his preserver by the hand.
"Kindest, best of friends," he uttered,
"I cannot speok my thanks in words.
I see it all, I see it all, and may Heaven
bless you for what you have done. My
dear wife loves you now, and my child
shall be taught to bless you."
"There," murmured the old man, as
he put Mary's arms away from his neck,
and raised Richard from his knees,
"let us all thank God for What we enjoy,
and at the same time rememlier the
simple fact, that there are none irore
miserable than they who see nothing on
earth worth living for and loving."
Long years have passed away, and
Richard Bradley and his wife are grown
old; but their lives have been made
happy and peaceful, for they have spread
Ivy about them on all hands, their
children honor them for their bright ex
ample, and their neighbors love them
for the good they have done.
THE BASHFUL MAN'S STORY.
IT may be funny, but I've done it. I've
got a rib and u baby. Shadows de
partedoyster stews, brandy cock-tails,
ogler boxes, boot-jacks, absconding shirt
buttons, whist and demijohn. Shadows
present hoop-skirts, band-boxes, rib
bons, gaiters, long stockings, juvenile
dresses, tin trumpets, little willow
chairs, cradles, bibs, pap, sugar teats,
parugorlc, hive syrup, castor oil, God
frey's cordial, soothing syrup, rhubarb,
sena, salts, squills and doctor's bills.
Shadows future more pound babies,
more hive syrup, etc., etc. I'll just tell
you how I got caught.'
I was almost the darndest, most tea-
custard bashful fellow you ever did see,
It was kinder In my line to be taken
with the shakes every time I saw a
pretty girl approaching me, and I'd
cross the street any time rather than
face one; it wasn't because I didn't like
the critters, for if I was behind the fence
looking' through a knot hole, I couldn't
look at one long enough. Well, my sis
ter Lib gave a party one night, and I
stayed away from home because I was
too bashful to face the music. I hung
around the house whistling " Old Dan
Tucker," dancing to keep my feet
warm, watching the heaps bobbing up
and down behind the window curtains,
and wishing the thundering party would
break up so I could get into my room.
I smoked up a bunch of cigars, and as it
was getting late and mighty uncomfort
able,! concluded to shin up the door
post. No sooner said than done, and
soon put myself snug in bed.
" Now," says I, " let her rip 1 Dance
till your wind gives out!" And cud
dling under the qullts.Morpheus grabbed
me.
I was dreaming of soft shell crabs and
stewed tripe, and was having a good
time, when somebody rapped at the door
and woke me up. " Rap" again. I laid
low. "Rap, rap!" Then I heard a
whispering and I knew there was a
whole raft of girls outside. " Rap,rap !"
Then Lib sings out
" Jack, are you in there V"
"YeB,"saysI.
Then came a roar of laughter.
, " Let us In," says she.
- " I won't," says I, can't you let a
fellow alone V"
" Are you in bed V" says she.
" I am," says I.
" Get up," says she.
" I won't," says I.
Then came another laugh.
By thunder. I began to get riled. ,
" Get out, you pettiooated scarce
crows!" I cried; "Can't you get a
beau without, hauling a fellow out of
bed y I won't go with you I won't so
you may clear out r"
And, throwing a boot against the door,
I felt better. But presently, oh I mortal
button I I heard a still, small voice,
very much like sister Lib's, and it
said:
"Jack, you'll have to get up, for all
the girls' things are in there I"
O, Lord, what a piokle 1 Think of
me in bed, all covered with shawls,
mulls, bonnets and cloaks, and twenty
girls outside the door waiting to get in !
If I had stopped to think I should have
pancaked on the spot As it was, I
rolled out among the bonnet ware and
ribbons in a hurry. Smash I went the
millinery in every direction. I had to
dress in the dark-t-for there was a crack
in the door, and the girls will peep and
the way I fumbled around In the dark
was death to straw hats. The critical
moment came. I opened the door, and
found myself right among the women.
" Oh ! my Leghorn !" cries one" Mv
dear, darling winder velvet !" cries an .
other, and they pitched In they pulled
me this way and that wr.y, boxed my
ears; and one bright eyed little piece
Sal , her name was put her arms
right around my neck and kissed me
right on my lips! human nature
couldn't stand that, and I gave her good
as she sent. It was the first time I ever
got a taste, and it was powerful good. I
believe I could have kissed that gal from
Julius Caesar to the -1th of July.
" Jack," gays she, "we are sorry to
disturb you, but won't you see me
homey"
"Yes," says I. "I will."
I did do It, and had another smack nt
the gate, too. After that we took n
kinder turtle-dovlngeach other, both of
us sighing like a barrel of new made
elder when we were away from ertch
other.
Twas at tin; close of a glorious sum
mer day the sun was setting behind a
distant hen-roost the bull-frogs were
commencing their evening songs the
polly-wogs, in their native mud pud
dles, were preparing themselves for their
shades of night and Sal and myself sat
upon an antiquated back log, listening
to the music of nature, such as tree
toads, roosters and grunting pigs, and
now and then the mellow music of a
distant jackass- was wafted to out ears by
the gentle zephyrs that sighed among
the mulllen stocks, and came ladsn with
the delicious odor of hen-roosts und plg
stys. The last lingering rays of theset
ting sun, glancing from the buttons of a
solitary borseman, shone through a knot
hole In a pig-pen, full In Sal's face,
dyeing her an orange peel hue, and
showing off my thread-bare coat to bad
advantage. One of my arms was around
Sal's waist, my hand resting on the
small of her back ; she was almost gone;
and I was ditto.. She looked like a grass
hopper dying with the hiccups, and I
felt like a mud-turtle choked with a fish-
ball.
1 Sal," says I, in a voice as musical as-
the notes of a dying swan, "will yow
have me "i"'
She turned her eyes heavenward-,
clasped me by the hand, had an attault
of the heaves and blind staggers, andi
with a sigh thatdrew her shoe strings to
her palate, said " Yes ! "
She gave clear out, then, and squatted'
in my lap; she corkscrewed and cur
flumlxed and rolled in. I hugged her
till I broke my suspenders, and her
breath smelt of onions she had ate two.
weeks before.
Well, to make a long story short, she
set the day, and we practiced for fou
weeks every night how we should walk
into the room to be married, till we got
so we could walk as graceful as a couple
of Muscovy ducks. The night, the com
pany and the minister came, the Bignal
was given, and arm and aim we march
ed through the crowded hall. We were
Just entering the parlor door when down
I went, kerslap on the oil eloth, pulling
Sal after me. Some cussed fellow had
dropped a banana skin on the floor, and
it floored me. It split an awful hole In
my caslmeres, right under my dress coat
tail. It was too late to back out; so,
clapping my hand over it, we were
spliced and taking a seat 1 watched the
kissing the bride operation. My grooms
man was tight, and be kissed her till I
jumped up to take a slice; when, oh
horror! a little six-year-old imp had
crawled behind me, and pulling my
shirt through the hole in my pants, had
pinned it to the chair, and in jumping
up I displayed to the admiring gaze of
the astonished multitude a triflo more
white muslin than, was pleasant. The
women giggled, the men roared, and I
got mad, but was finally put to bed, and
there all my troubles ended. Good
night.
What to Teach Your Boyt.
npEACII them that a true lady may be
JL found in calico quite as frequently as
In velvet. . ,
Teach them that a common school
education, with common sense, is belter
than a college education without it. '
Teach them that one good trade well
mastered, Is worth a dozen beggarly
" professions." ,
Teach them that " Honesty is the best
policy" that 'tis better to be poor than
to be rich on the profits of " crooked
whiskey," etc., and point your precepts
by examples of those who are now suffer
ing the torments of the doomed.
Teach them to respect their elders and
themselves.
Teach them that, as they expect to be
men some day, they cannot too soon
learn to protect the weak and helpless,
Teach them by your own example
that smoking, in moderation, though
the least of the vices to which men are
heirs, is disgusting to others and hurtful
to themselves.
Teach them that to wear patched
clothes Is no disgrace, but to wear
" black eye" Is." ;
Teach them that God Is no respecter of
sex, and that when he gave the seventh
commandment, he meant It for them as
well as for their sisters.
Teach them that by Indulging their
depraved appetites In the worst forms of
dissipation, they are not fitting them
selves to become the husbands of pure
girls.
Teach them that It Is better to be an
honest man seven days In the week than
to be a Christian (?) one day and a vil
lain six days. '
Teach them that " God helps those
who help themselves."
Do all this, and you will have brought
them up in "the way they should go."
HOW HE KNEW.
THERE was a Sunday school celebra
tion within a hundred miles of
Chicago, not long ago, and the minister
made a speech to the children, in which
he endeavored to teach the nature of
faith. So he told them the following
story by way of ilhtsttrntlon :
In the deepening twilight of a sum
mer's evening a pustor called nt the
residence of one of his parlshloners,and
found seated in the dworway a little boy,
with hands extended! upwards, holding
a line.
" What are you doing here, my little
Mend y" inquired the Minister.
' Flying my kite !" was the prompt
reply.
" Flying your kite !" exclaimed the
pastor ; " I can see no kite you can see
none;"
' I cannot see it, but 1 know it Is
there, tori feel it pull."
The children were all cteeply Interest
ed, ami the clergyman continued :
"Now in a few days after this the
mother of the little boy was about to
die, and she said to him :
" My son, when I am an angel I will
come if I can and le with you and
shield yon from all harm, and watch' to
see that you grow up a goodl man. Will
you try to think sometimes that I am
by you side?"
And the little boy said he -would.
" Now my dear children,." said the
minister, "when that blessed angel
came back from heaven ami hovered
over the- child, and placed her hand
among the fair golden hair, h-w did he
know sUs was there, for he- eould not
see her t
'Why he felt her pull, of course!"
roared the class in unison, Mid with the
promptness of absolute necessity.
The speaker sat down till, of a sudden,
and the exercises concluded with the
singing of a hymn.
A Literary Curiosity.
The following rather cutiious piece of
oom position was recently placed upon
the black board at a teachers' Institute,
and a prize of a Webstes's Dictionary
offered to any person who could
read it and pronounce evey word cor
rectly. The book was not carried off,
however, as twelve was the lowest num
ber of mistakes in pronunciation made:
" A sacrilegious son of Belial, who
suffered from bronchitis, having ex
hausted bis finances, In crder to make
good the deficit, resolved to ally himself
to comely, lenient and docile young
lady of the Malay or Caucasian race.
He accordingly purchased a culliopeand
a coral necklace of a chameleon hue,
and scem'ing a suite or rooms at a
principal hotel, he engaged the head
waiter as his coadjutor. He then dis
patched a letter of the most unexcep
tional caligraphy extant, inviting the
young lady to a matinee. She revolted
at the Idea, refused to consider herself
.gacrlficable to his desires, and sent a
polite note of refusal, on receiving
which he procured a carbine and bowie
knife, said that he would not now forge
fetters hymeneal with the queen, went
to an isolated spot, severed his jugular
vein and discharged the contents of his
carbine Into his abdomen. The debris
was removed by the coroner."
The mistakes is pronunciation were
made on the following words: Sacri
leglous, Belial, bronchitis, exhausted,
finances, deficit, comely, lenient, docile,
Malay, calliope, cnameieon, suite, coaa-
1... -..11 U 1 I A V,l
juwir, cuil&raiii.j, umuucv h;iihiuiu.
carbine, hymeneal, isolated, Jugular and
ueuns.
Effects of Imagination.
When the waters of Glastonbury were
at the height of their reputation, in 1751,
the following story was told by a gentle
man of character :
An old woman of the workhouse at
Yeovil, who had long been a cripple
and made use of crutches, was strongly
Inclined to drink or the uiastonoury
water, which she was assured would
cure her lameness. The master of the
workhouse procured her several bottles
of water, which had such an effect that
she soon laid aside one crutch, and, not
long after, the other. This was extolled
as a most miraculous cure, but the man
protested to his friends that he bad im
posed upon her and fetched water from
an ordinary spring. I need not inform
your readers that the force of imagina
tion had spent itself, and she relapsed
into her former infirmity. Blackwood,
NrheltFk'a PlllilinnlA Kir.n tl. U'.il
" - - V fl T ' 1 " "Will
Towio tt Mandrake Ptu.n. These desert-
my ceieomiea ana popular medicines hare
fleeted a revolution In the hcnlrntj art, and
iroTed the fallacy 0f several matm which
inve for mnnv Team nUmtmntnA - r
medical Science. The false supposition that
" Connumjftlon is Incurable" deterred pbysi
clant from attempting to And remedies for that
Bue, inn (mucins afflicted with It reconell-
I themselves tn rlnnth Urlthn.. - f
fort to escape from a doom which they sap.
posed to be unavoidable. It Is now proved,
however, thnj C!nnanmnftnn ... h. riH-.j .1
that It has been cured In a very great number
ui timeo mno 01 mem apparently desperate
ones) by 8teuck' Pulmonic Byrnp alone:
and In ntlipr m.a. h tl,. .'
"J .o .niiin iii:iMi;iiia m
connection wfth Bchenck'i Sea Weed Tonta
ana manaraiie nils, one or both, according to
the requirements of the case.
nr. BcnencK rjlnweir who enjoyed uninter
rupted Rood health for more than forty years,
was supposed at one time to be at the very
mte Of denth.hla BlWalnlnna
ed his case hopeless, and abandoned him to his-
luio. iHi corew ny me aforesaid medl-
mro, Dim, miico ins recovery, many thousands
nillarlv 11 fi;Mnd ,,.a ti. a-i 1.1-
. - .oi.u . Dl-llCllUK B
preparations with the same remarkable suo-
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not ahflnltlt.ftlv tiprpaaarv tn n...ni-nll. . ?.
- J j pviruiiaill rCD JLM .
Bchenck unless patients wish their lungs ex-
"u ior mis propose lie is profession-
.ij. um principal oii-we, uornor Btxtb and
lrcl Streets, Philadelphia, every Monday,
avi. where all 1nt.tp.nt tnr nilvln. mn.i v. .1
dressed. Schenck's medSirir. es Are unlrl hv all
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Strikes st the root of dlseas by purifying the
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VKOETINE
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ueuiiii.
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VEGETINE
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Mr. H. It. Stevstis:
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