THE TIMES NEW BLOOMFIELD, PA. JUNE 5, 1877. CATCHING A PICK-POCKET. "I BTAKT to-morrow for Belleville," Bnld Ithoda Clare to her aunt, upon whom she was making a farewell call. " Are you going ftlone, child?" Inquir ed her relative. " Yes," was the reply. " Tapaeannot leave his business, Just now, to go with me, but he will put me on the cars, and my frlends,who arealready In Belleville, will meet me at the depot." "I don't think It Is safe," continued the old lady. " Just think, If you should be robbed, as I was, on that very rond, last summer 1" " How was that V" asked lthodu. "Well," replied her companion, " we were just approaching the tunnel, when a gentlemanly looking young man, wearing spectacles, came up to me and Inquired, ' Is this seat engaged, intulanir" No,' I replied, and he Immediately ap propriated It. He was disposed to be rather chatty, and was quite Interesting; but he left at the first station we reached. After we had passed through the tunnel, and when I put my hand in my pocket, I found that my pocket-book had left with him 1" " The strange young man had proved too fascinating for you," laughed Ithoda. " I defy any one to rob me so easily." Having just passed through the gradu ating course at school, and come oft" with flying colors, she felt equipped for any .emergency which might present itself in ihe battle of life. " Don't be too sure," replied her aunt; " and beware of any gentlemanly-looking young man in spectacles.who wishes to share your seat In the cars." Ithoda set forth with bright anticipa tions of a pleasant summer. Her ticket was bought, her trunk cheeked, and she was established in a seat, all to herself, with an interesting book in her hand, and her lunch in a satchel beside her. The whistle blew, and papa, giving her a hurried kiss, bade her good bye ; and, for the first time in her life, she was traveling alone. For a while she watched the scenery, as the train whirl ed her rapidly along. Then she devoted herself to her book ; but finally becom ing tired of both, Bhe yawned and wlsh ed for company, and even fancied that her aunt's fascinating young robber would be rather an agreeable diversion. " I should like to see him get my pocket-book," thought Ithoda. "If his hand were once in her pocket, he would not escape so easily without an introduc tion to the police." And she closed her own little palm tightly, as though she already had the prize within her grasp. While these thoughts were passing through the young lady's mind, the cars stopped, and several passengers came on board. Rhoda was conscious of a shadow falling near, and looking up,she beheld a vision which mantled her cheeks with a deep blush ; a tall and rather elegant lookiug young man, with dark whiskers, and wearing spectacles, was respectfully touching his hat, and inquiring : "Is this seat engaged, MissV" And then he added, apologetically, " All the others seem to be occupied." "Answers the description exactly," soliloquized the young detective. " Now Aunt Ann shall be revenged ; I will give him the opportunity to pick my pockets, ifhe desires it. Terhaps he may not enjoy it so much in the end !" Then she added, aloud, putting on a look of sternness which Bet comically upon her childlike face, " The seat is at your service, sir," and she proceeded to remove her satchel. " Allow ine," said the stranger,and ho elevated It to the bracket above. Ithoda kept her eye upon her proper ty, almost expecting to see it and her companion disappear together. " He prefers pocket-books," was her mental comment ; " I'll be on my guard.' In spite of herself, our heroine be came interested in the conversation of the stranger. He was so perfectly ac quainted with the road, and pointed out all the objects of interest, telling amus ing anecdotes connected with them. "But I must not forget that he is a villain," was her mental reservation, as she listened. " Aunt Ann said that he was entertaining. " How funny," she continued, addressing herself, " that I should meet the same person. But then, he frequents this road." Finally, they entered the tunnel. " I scarcely wonder," remarked the strange young man in spectacles, " at the mistake of the old lady who, having entered the tunnel for the first time in her life, and having never heard of it, supposed the Day of Judgment had come." "He is trying to divert my attention," thought Rhoda. " Perhaps he imagines that I am a young chit of a school-girl who can be easily imposed upon, but he may find himself mistaken." Just then she felt a slight tug at her linen polonaise, and immediately thurst ing her hand in to the pocket, imprison ed a masculine hand, which she grasped tightly. ' Now I can triumph over Aunt Ann," thought Ithoda, " If I am not accustomed to traveling alone." They emerged from the tuunel, and what was the chagrin of the young lady to discover that she was Imprisoning her companlon's hand In the pocket of his own linen duster. "Oh I I beg your pardon!" stam mered Rhoda, feeling very much like the culprit for whom she had mistaken the stranger. " You are very excusable," he replied, gazing in wonder at her blushing coun tenance, while his face seemed to be an Interrogation point. Rhoda felt that, In justification to her self, some explanatloiKwas necessary, but with a sense of mortltl cation, she re membered that the only one Bhe had to ofler was the reverse of complimentary. "I thought," she began " that Is Aunt Ann said you were I mean, I thought It was my pocket and I mis took you for a" " Tlckpocket ?" asked the stranger, as the truth began to dawn upon him ; and his eyes twinkled with a sense of the ludicrous situation. " Yes," answered Rhoda, desperately, while her blushes deepened Into scarlet. "And bo I was to be brought to jus tice, I suppose, and delivered up to the police at the next station." And the dark eyes danced behind the spectacles with merriment. " Do please forgive me I" replied Rho da. " I have never traveled alone be fore, and I have been from home but very little." " Well," was the laughing retort, "I'll forgive you for putting your hand in my pocket. Now Bee how much more mer ciful I am than you Intended to be !" But Rhoda was In no mood for laugh ter ; she felt that she had disgraced her self ; and every time the train stopped she wished that her companion would leave, and that she might never see him again. She was doomed to be dlsappoin ed, however, for the cars were Hearing her own destination, and the stranger was Btill with her. " Belleville 1" shouted the conductor, and the Inexperienced little traveler sprang to her feet, fancying that there was not a moment to lose. " I will bid you good-bye," she remark ed, triumphantly. " Oh, don't be In a hurry," was the reply; " there Is plenty of time. I stop here, too." " Provoking I" thought Rhoda. "Now I shall be constantly meeting him. I wish the summer was over." Rhoda's friends were at the depot ready to smother her with kisses. " Did you have a pleasant journey V' asked Miss Townsend, as they were driving to the one large hotel of which Belleville boasts. " 1 was somewhat lonely," replied Rhoda. " Duncan Rivers came on the train with you. He is quite a distinguished lawyer from Philadelphia, with any amount of wealth, which he inherited from nn uncle. I wonder if you saw him. He is tall, with dark whiskers, and wears spectacles." " I was reading a good deal of the time," remarked Rhoda.evaslvely, "and paid very little attention to the passen gers." . Her friends wondered why the warm blood mantled her checks. On their wuy to the dining-room, Mr. Rivers came up and shook hands with the Townsend family ; and Nina imme diately presented him to her " particular friend and schoolmate, Miss Clare." "Miss Clare's facets familiar," re marked the gentleman, roguishly, " Were you not on the train this after noon i"' Again the roses deepened on the soft, dimpled cheeks, adding new brightness to the dark violet eyes ; and Nina won dered If any masculine heart could re sist the Innocence, and freshness, and beauty of that fair face. Belleville was not a place in which people could spend their time yawning and going to sleep. The shaded walks and beautiful drives, the magnificent scenery, with the noble old mountains frowning down upon the river, which sparkled in the sunshine all these proved to have greater fascination for the young people than the cosy ld-fash-ioned hotel, surrounded, as It was, by great spreading trees, and looking so In vitingly cool to the weary pedestrian. Although Belleville boasted of many eligible oeaux just now, who had come to rusticate for a few weeks, yet Duncan Rivers decidedly carried off the palm. His cultivation, his personal appearance his polished manners, and his politeness to all and devotion to none, served to rivet the thoughts of the young ladies, upon him rather than upon those whose particular attentions were bestowed more indiscriminately. All but Rhoda. The recollection of the particular compli ment with which she had favored him In the car served to render her shy to wards him now, and she avoided him upon every possible occasion. Meanwhile, this little episode, which be considered a good joke, had only served to amuse blm ; and the pet of loclety wondered, and was piqued, at the indifference of an unsophisticated young girl, Just fresh from the school room. He carelessly resolved that she should be conquered, not dreaming that he had anything deeper at stake than the amusement of the hour. Ills frequent Invitations to her to walk and drive, his devotion to her on the croquet ground, their tele-a-tctes over the chess board, were soon noticed by the other occupants of the house, who, of course, did not fall to make their comments. A plc-nlo hftd been planned to the Falls, about twelve miles from the vil lage. On the previous evening Rhoda had wandered to the end of one of the long halls, and had seated herself in the window, where the moon poured In a flood of silvery light, bringing out In a shadowy baauty the leaves of the grand old maple trees, which were reflected on the walls, dancing in their own grot esque fashions as they were gently sway ed by the light breeze. " I have found you at last," said a pleasant voice. "Why did you run away from us?" " I accidentally strayed into thla cor ner," replied Rhoda, "and then I could not resist its beauty." " It Is charming," said Mr. Rivers, seating himself. " I have come to ask you, Miss Rhoda, if I may have the pleasure of your company In my car riage, to the plo-nlc, tomorrow." " I had half made up my mind not to go," said Rhoda, " for I promised poor old Miss Dennis, that I would spend a day with her before I leave, and now the summer is almost past." " Oh, it will never do for you to give up the pic nic !" exclaimed her compan ion ; " the last gayety of the Beason. Give the old lady some other day and go with me to-morrow. Come, Miss Itho da ; you must say 'yes.' I think I will not take 'no' for an answer." " Well," was the reply, " I will think about it." Just then the pair became conscious of a presence. There was a rustle of starch ed muslin, and they caught glimpse of a figure as it gilded past, a little in the distance, where another hall Intersected? And how much of the conversation had been overheard ? All of it, or only the latter part V These were the thoughts that had passed through Rhoda'B mind, and Bhe glanced up and encountered the merry twinkle In her companion's eys. " There Is the foundation for quite a romance ; a lover, deeply In earnest, and an undecided young lady taking him in to consideration," laughed Mr. Rivers, as they separated. That he, Duncan Rivers, the spoiled pet of society, could be taken into con sideration, that any young lady would not answer an Immediate "yes," to a proposition of marriage emanating from him, had never entered that gentleman's head as one of the possibilities; there fore, he could afford to bo amused In contemplation of the reports to which theonversatlon just related might give rise. The bright morning sun overturned Rhoda's self-sacrificing intentions, and charitably resolving to bestow upon old Miss Dennis the first rainy day, should one occur before she left Belleville, she took her seat in Mr. River's comfortable little carriage. Bhe was beginning to recover from the shyness which she had always felt toward her companion, In consequence of the awkward mistake she had made when Bhe first met him ; and now this drive through a lovely country, surrounded by the most en chanting scenery, had an exhilarating effect upon her splrits,and her companion was charmed with the wit and freshness of her remarks, and wished that this tete-a-tete drive might last all day. It came to an end all too soon, and the entire party was established in the woods.some sitting in groups, some in two, and some taking solitary walks, perhaps in quest of congenial company. Mr. Rivers had unconsciously fallen into a brown study, from which he was rather rudely awak ened by one of tho party, who stepped up to him, exclaiming: " I was to be the first to congratulate you I" "For what?" asked the gentleman, somewhat Btartled by the abruptness. " For being the lucky chap who has secured the prettiest girl in the compa ny," was the reply. "At least, we sup pose you have secured her. We were told she was taking you Into considera tion ; but as she drove with you to day, we fancy that Is equivalent to an acceptance." And there was a mall clous glance In the eyes of the speaker, who had so frequently been eclipsed by the gifted young lawyer. " Have your congratulations until you receive your information from a more reliable source than boarding-house gos sip," replied Mr. Rivers, as he turned haughtily away. " Confound that little school ghi !" he mentally ejaculated. " Bhe first takes me for a plck-pockct, and then places me, to all appearance, In the position of a humble suitor, waiting meekly for my sentence." J ust then a peal of laughter greeted his ears, and turning in the direction whence It proceeded.he beheld the "little school girl" surrounded by four of her companions, and Mr. Rivers was obliged to acknowledge to himself that he had never before seen so lovely a picture. The sunshine had lent an additional flush to her cheeks, and was playing bo peep through the leaves with her soft brown hair, from which her hat had partially fallen; her beautiful eyes spark led with mischief, and a merry laugh parted her rosy Hps. In her fingers she held four blades of grass, with one end concealed in her dimpled hand. Each gentleman eagerly drew, and compared lengths with his neighbor, and then ex claimed in a tone of disappointment : " All alike!" " Certainly," replied Rhoda, demure ly. '.' How could I be the partner of either of you when I am already en gaged for the first game of croquet?" The gentlemen took her Joke good na turally, and went off In quest of other partners. " That little coquette !" mentally ejac ulated Mr. Rivers. "I never noticed before that she was so much admired, she seemed such a shy little thing." But this gentleman was doomed to make several discoveries In the course of the day, one of which was that he felt a certain unpleasant sensation In the re gion of his heart, when Rhoda's smiles were showered too indiscriminately among her admirers, and that his own attentions, hitherto carelessly bestowed had a deeper meaning than he was him self conscious of. He noticed that his courtesies now were accepted or declined with the same saucy iudiflerenee which greeted her other adorers. He wearied of the day and rejoiced when he found himself once more seated in his carriage with Rhoda beside him, their faces turn ed homeward. " Well," said Rhoda, " this is the last plc-nic of the season ! I shall be half sorry to return to the city and settle down to propriety once more." "That will not require much exer tion," remarked her friend, mischiev ously, " If you can return to it as easily as you left it." "What do you mean?" demanded Rhoda, half angrily. ( "Have you forgotten that you at tempted to pick my pocket on the journey?" "Oh!" laughed Rhoda. "It was you who were trying to rob me, only by some legerdemain you managed to get both hands Into your own pocket before you emerged into the light." . " But you really did steal something from me, Rhoda. I was unconscious of it at the time, but I have discovered my Iosb since. Give me an equivalent for it and I will promise not to make the. theft public." Then he added, more seriously, " You cannot want two hearts." A saucy reply rose to Rhoda's lips, but something in that earnest gaze put it to flight. "I don't think you have been any more honest thou I," she faltered. " I have missed " But the rest of the sentence was lost, as her lips was smothered with kisses. " Then you do love me, Rhoda, after all? I thought you were indifferent:" " And I thought that, after you had stolen my heart, you had merely played with it for awhile, and then thrown it away." " When did you begin to care for me, darling?" " I believe it was when I found my hand in your pocket, although I wished then that I might never see you again." A few days more ended Rhoda's visit to Belleville ; but she did not return home alone. Mr. Rivers declared it would be necessary for him to accompany her, to prevent her from making arrests on the cars. He said that she had taken him prisoner at their first meeting, and had held him in chains ever since. A Strange Fight. A Middletown, N. Y. paper says : A heavy throated bull near this city, noted for bis fierceness, accidentally stepped on one of a brood of goslings recently which a stately gander was holding watch and guard over with great solicitude. Straight way the gander attacked the bull, and seized him by the tall with his beak, his wings lashing the animal's flanks with the greatest fury. Ih vain the bull wheeled about to reach his antagonist ; the gander wheeled with him, all the while retaining his hold upon the bull's tail, and showering blows with his pow erful wings Mith telling effect upon the bull's legs, until he fuliy roared with pain and terror. At last the gander, ap parently thinking that his adversary had hufflclent punishment, let go his hold, and the bull took to his heels with the liveliest speed, only stopping when he reached the further corner of the field. - ... . .- O" Life Is like a roll of costly material passing swiftly through our hands and we must embroider our pattern as It goes. We cannot wait to pick up a false stitch, or pause too long before we set another. DR. BClinSCK'8 tULSIOSIC SIRUP, Br.K yer.no Tomo, and Mamirakr Pii.i.ia These medicines nave undoubtedly performed more cure of Consumption than any other remedy Known to the American puhllo. They are com pounded of vegetabfo Ingredients, and contain nothing which can tie injurious to the human constitution. Other remedies advertised as cures for Consumption, probably con lulu opium, which Is a somewhat dangerous drug In all cases, and If taken freely by consumptive patients, It must do great Injury : lor Its tendency Is to conttne the morbid matter In the system, which, of course, must make acme Impossible. Schneck'sPulmon. lo Syrup Is warranted not to contain a particle of pplum ; It Is composed of powerful but harmless herbs, which act on the lungs, llrer. stomach.and blood, and thus correct nil morbid secretlons.and expel all the diseased matter from the body. These are the only means by which Consumption can be cured, and asBchneck's Pulmonic Syrup Sea weed Tonic, and mandrake Pills are the only medicines which operate In this way. It Is obvlons they are the only genuine cure for Pulmonic Con sumption. 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