TUB TIMES, NEW, BLOOMFIEI J), PA.; JANUARY 22,; 1878. IT 18 NOW an acknowledged Tact that Con enmptton can be cured. It hai been cured In a very great number of cases (some of them apparently desperate onea) by Bchenck' Pulmonic fiyrup alone, and In others by the same medicine In connection with Schonk's Sea Weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills, one or both, according to the requirements of the enso. . The old supposition that " Consumption la Incurable," for many yean deterred Physicians from attempting to find a remedy for tbat disease, and patients afflicted with It recon ciled themsolves to death without and eflbrt being made to save them from a doom which was considered Inevitable. Dr. Bchenck himself was supposed at one time to bo at the vory gate of death, his Physicians having pronounced his case hope less and abandoned him to his fntci he was cured by the aforesaid medicines and afterward enjoyed unlnte rupted good health for more than forty years. Thousands Of people have used Dr. Bchenck's preparations with the same remarkable success. , Bchenck's Almanac, containing a thorough treatise on Consumption, Liver Cotnplulut, Dyspepsia Ac, can be had gratis of any druggist, or of J. H. Bchenck A Son, Phila delphia. Full dlrecetlons for the tire of Bchenck's medicines accompany each package. Bcbeuck's Pulmonic Byrnp. Sua Weed Tonic, and Mandrake Pills . are lor sale by all druggist! Jan. 1 in RAILROADS. PHILADELPHIA AND READING R. R ARRANGEMENT OF PASSENGER TRAINS. tfoveiiilcr5li, 1877. TRAINS LEAVE IIARUI8BURG AS FOLLOWS For New York, at 5.20, 8.10 a. m. fcoop. m., and 7.6ft p. m. For Philadelphia, at 6.20, 8.10, 9.45 a.m. and 3.57 p. in. For Reading, at 5,20, 8.10, 0.45 a. m. and 2.00 .1.57 and 7.5J. For I'ottsvllle at 5.20. .10 a. m., and 3.67 B. m., and via Schuylkill and Susquehanna ranch at 2.40 n. m. For Auburn via H. ft 8. Br. at 6.10 a. m. For Allentown, at 5.20, 8.10 a. in., and at 2.00, :t.57 and 7.55 p. in. The 5.20, 8.10 a. m 3.67 and 7.55 p. m., trains have through cars for New York. TheS.20, 8.10 a. ni.. and 2.00 p. in., trains have through cars lor Philadelphia. SUNDAYS i For New York, at 6.20 a.m. For Allentown and Way Stations at 6.20 a.m. For Reading, Philadelphia aud Way tjtatlouBat 1.45 p. m. TRAINS FOR II ARKIS11UKG, LEAVE AS FOL LOWS I Leave New York, at 8.45 a. m., 1.00, 5.30 and 7.45 p. m. Leave Philadelphia, at 9.15 a. m. 3.40, and 7.20 p. m. Leave Reading, at t4.40, 7.40, 11.20 a. m. 1.30, 6.15 and 10. 35 1. m. Leave Pottsville, at 6.10, 9.15 a.m. and 4.33 p. m. And via Schuylkill and Susquehanna Branch at 8.15 a. in. Leave Auburn vlaS. ft 8. Br. at 12 noon. Leave Allentown, at t2.30 5,50, .05a. m., 12.15, 4.30 aud 9.03 p. m. SUNDAYS: Leave New York, at 5.30 p. m. Leave Philadelphia, at 7.20 p. m. Leave Reading, at 4.40, 7.40, a. m. and 10.33 p. m. Leave Allentown, at2 30 a. m., and 9.05 p. m. J. K. WOOTKN, Gen. Manager. G. G. Hancock, General Ticket Agent. tDoes not run on Mondays. Via Morris aud Essex R. R. Pennsylvania K. 11. Time Table. NEWPORT STATION. On and after Monday, June 25th, 1877, Fas tenger tralnswiu run as follows: EA8T. Miftllntown Ace. 7.32 a. m., dally except Sunday. Johnstown Ex. 12.22 p. M., dally " Sunday Mail, 6.54 p. m., dally exeeptSunday Atlantic Express, 0.54p.m., Hag, dally. WEST. WayPass. 9.08 A. m., dally, Mail 2.43 p. m. dally exeeptSunday, Mlllllntown Aoc. ti.&Ap. M. daily except Sunday. Pittsburgh Express, 11.67P. M.,( Flag) dally, ex cept Sunday. Pacino Express, 5.17 a. m.. dally (flag) Trains are now run by Philadelphia time, which is 13 minutes faster than Altoona time, and 4 min utes slower than New York time. J.J. BARCLAY, Agent. DUNCA.NNON STATION. On and after Monday, June 25th, 1877, trains will leave Duucannon. as follows : EASTWARD. Miftllntown Aoc. daily except Sundayat 8.12a. m. Johnstown Ex. 12.53P. M., dally except Sunday. Mail 7.30 P. H " Atlautio Express 10.20 p. m., dally (flag) WESTWARD. Way Passenger, 8.38 a. M., dally ' Mail, 2.09 p. m dailyexceptSunday. Mlffllntown Ace. dailyexceptSunday at 6.16p.m. Pittsburg Ex. daily except Sunday (flag) ll.twp. m. WM. O. KING Acent. fin AGENTS WANTED to canvass for a uu okand pictube, 22x28 Indies, entitled "Thb Illustrated Ixird's Pbaveb." Agents are meeting with great success. For particulars, address It. M. CRIDER, Publisher, 48 ly York. Pa. REMOVAL. . The undersigned has removed his Leather and Harness Store from Front to High Street, near the Penn'a., Freight Depot, where he will have on hand, and will sell at REDUCED PRICES, Leather and Harness f all kinds. Having good workmen, and by buvlng at ths lowest catti prices, I fear no competition. Market prices paid in cash for Bark. Hides and Skins. Thankful for past favors, i solicit a con tinuance of the same. P. a Blankets, Robes, and Shoo findings made a speciality, JOS. M. HAWLEY. Duncannon, Julyl9. 1876,-tf gURTRISING f ' 7 JUST OPENED A VARIETY- STORE, UP TOWN ! We Invite the Citizens of BLOOMFIELD and vicinity, to call and examine our Stock of GROCERIES. OUEENSWARE. GLA8BWABE. TIN WARE. A FULL VARIETY OF NOTIONS, c., ftc. All of which we are selling at astonishingly IjO"W.; PRICES. Give us a call and tf.O'JS MONEY, as we r almost G1V1NU THINGS AWAY. . Butter and Eggs taken In trade. 1 VALENTINE BLANK, ' Wert Main Street. 38 ly THE OLD MAN AND THE FAST MAIL, " Toung man, I am tired and weary, and I'll borrow your chair for awhile, To sit by your office window, whera the golden sunbeams smile, For I've traveled some mile since morning, although I am old and gray, To see Uncle Barn's pet bobby, the fast white mall, to-day. How Time keeps ringing LIS changes) It ain't many years ago, Since I traveled this same road, youngster, In a stage-coach, old and slow. There wasn't a sign or a railroad, nor a tele' graph pole In sight,' And the earth lay asleep In a mantle of snow flakes, pure and white. A little log cabin yonder, peeped out nt the edge of the woods, Like the nut-brown face of a maiden from under a snow-white hood, And there we unhitched our horses, In twilight cold and gray, To rest In the brown log cabin 'till the dawn of another day. Then I came here again the next 8ummer,when the meadow with grass were green, When the birds In the oaks were slngln', and the fish were at play In the stream, And I built, In a little clearing, way yonder orer the hill, A cabin o' logs aud brushwood, and, stranger, I live there still. But the cabin o' logs bus vanished, and there stands In Its place to-day A mansion of brick aud granite, while over across the way My lad has built him a cottage, a cottage he calls his own, That discounts the big brick mansion where the old man Isn't at home. For old dogs don't learn new habits, and an old man's hard to please, It ain't easy to rest from labor when one Isn't used to ease Tet I don't know as I'd be wlllln' to toll In the fields again, A workln' for paper dollars and klllln' both heart and brain. Once a week we got our malls, then, folks wasn't a hurry to go, They didn't think tbat the stage-coach was lumberln', old and slow, And you couldn't have made us believe It, If you'd argued an hour more, They'd be carrying malls by steam power, aud throwln' 'em off at the door. Now cars run over their roadways with the speed of a gust of wind, They've left the lumberln' stage-coach and the old-fashioned ways behind, And they toll me, to lands far westward,wbere the eagle has loft his trail, Uncle Sam is sendtn' em letters by way of a fast white mall. So I've driven from home since morning, al though I am old and gray, To see Uncle Barn's pet hobby, the fast white mall, to-day ) For In twenty-six hours, I'vo heard It, and it beats an old man like mc, They've the ocean mall a readln' by " the queen o' the inland sea." Well, time is changln' surely, one Is never too old to learn, Though there may be flaws In the marble' that my old eyes can't dlscoru, Yet I'm tired of the Deacon's croakln', and I wish he'd " give us a rest " God's runnln' the world, I reckon, and He docth what seems tbo best. Now I'll move my chair here, youngster, and sit where the bright sun smile, 'Till I hear on the curve, down yonder, the whistle o' old John Miles, For they tell me he's runnln' an engine on the fast white mall to-day, And he runs like a wild young follow, if his hair Is turnln' gray." The old man sat by the window till he taw o'er the curve below The smoke from the engine rising like the wings of a great black crow, Then be crept with a gait unsteady across the office floor, And stood like a statue watching thb train from the open door It came like a great white arrow tipped with a barb o steel, Spurning the road beneath It with the touch of its iron-shod heel, Catching the mall while passing with a de mon 's outstretched hand, To be scattered in showers of blessings afar ' o'er the peaceful land. Miles, with bis hand on the lever, looked out as he passed the door, Looked out at the sunbeam stealing down toward the lake's green shore, Then pulled the throttle wide open.and seemed with bis air to say, " Uncle Bam, I have run like lightning with yonr fast white mail to-day I" The old man looked In wonder, as they caught ' the mall below; " Aye ! time is fast," he muttered, "for that idea ain't slow," And then, a way tbey vanished with a flash like a comet' tall, , He said " Old Time, you're eucbered by steam and the fast white mail." Telegraphic Anecdotes..' THERE 1b probably no better place in all this world for studying human nature than in a telegraph office,' says Mr. Johnston, in a telegraphic) Volume, Just published, called " Lightning Flash es." You are brought in contact with bo many different people, made a confidant of in bo many Important transactions, meet bo many peculiar people, and see bo many strange messages panning over ilia wire, that arm feel n If from some loophole of retreat you were viewing the world shorn of U shams and its proton res. Perhaps no class of men en joy a good joke belter than telegraphers, and they certainly often find in the or dinary routine duties of their position many dispatches calculated to provoke a smile. For ItiBtanue; a Massachusetts man recently telegraphed to his son : "I nm dying, come Immediately," which elicited the very sympathetic re ply: "Can not come. Let me know when you die." A message was sent not long since to a doctor In this city from the huMband to one of his patients, which read : " Please come down right away, wife very 111," and fifteen minutes afterward another, merely paying: . "You need come. Funeral Tuesday." , , The following message, addressed to an insurance agent, recently passed through the Western Union general of fice in this city : 'Have you received proofs of my death 5 They were forwarded sixty days ago. "Signed John BAtnn, deceased. per Mary Bnlrd." As the operators always "follow copy" and senders are often a little excited, very queer messages are sometimes sent; for example this one : "Cousin; Oo for Auntie. Father Ib dying as soon as possible." An Irishman of course In Palmer, Muhh., Bent the following message to his brother In New York I " Your wife died yesterday. We will wake her to-night. Come home. 1', H. Don't open this for two hours, bo as to prepare yourself for the melancholy news." But the most laughable messages are generally those from love-sick swaliiB to their sweethearts. A gentleman in the South not long since telegraphed to his affianced in Maine: " Your life is a rich bouquet of happi ness, yourself the sweetest flower. If Northern winds whisper Southern wishes, how happy you must be I Good night. Happy dreams, sweet love Frank." The following message recently passed through the Chicago office : " I lent you one year ago to-night $-1.87. If you have not had it long enough, please keep it one year longer." To this delicate hint this answer was returned : " Had forgotten it, aud hoped you had. Let her run another year." Mr. Beecher, years ago, when he was but little known outside of New York or Brooklyn, received a telegram from a Y. M. C. A. In the West, asking him to come on and lecture for fume, His reply created a hearty laugh In tho telegraph office. It was : " Yes ; I will lecture for F. A. M. K. fifty and my expenses." Operators occasionally encounter some very strange people in the way of customers. It 1b quite astonishing what crude Ideas many even intelligent peo ple have of the telegraph. A German once brought a message to one of the branch offices in this city for transmis sion. It was so indistinctly written that the operator couldn't read it, and asked to be enlightened. Hans studied it carefully for some time, but couldn't make It out either. After a while, bow ever, his face brightened up, and he said: " Oh, well, just send it that way ; he'll understand It." A porter belonging to one of the city hotels one night handed the operator a message and a two-dollar bill. The operator returned him the change, and was not a little surprised to see him walk off with both change and message. " Ain't you going to have the message sentV" he inquired. " Oh 1" replied the porter, " I thought you had sent it. I supposed that all you had to do was simply to look at it." A lady of color once asked what the tariff was to Portsmouth. "What Portsmouth!"' asked the operutor. " Why, just Portsmouth." "What State is it in!"' ".The U-nited States." " Yes, but there are over thirty States. Which particular one 1" " I never heard of any Portsmouth but the one." And she looked like it. After a little questioning she spoke of Richmond, and he concluded it was Virginia. " Seventy-five cents for ten words." " Well, what's a word!1" I want to say 'Arrived safe, but my trunk hasn't come on. Please forward at once by ex press, care of Mrs. Julia Johnson, with out delay. I'll write as Boon as ever J have time.' Is that, more than one word." , He thought it was. Not long since a. man stopped at the little window of a branch office in the " Hub," the inhabitant evidently of a little sphere of hie own, outside of which be was lost in the maxes of life. " Is this the telegraph office he asked, hesitatingly, 1 . The young lady operator satisfied him of this fact, ., i " I want to telegraph," he proceeded, growing confidential i I want to tele graph to my wire and tell her I missed the train." " You will have to write it on one of those blauks.V said the operator, coolly, entirely unimpressed , by the (to the Bender) exciting event. ,"Oh, well I gues you'd bettor write It. I can write," (evidently thinking it necessary to establish this fact before proceeding further,) "but," (flattering ly.) " you can fix it up better than I can.". . "Whom Is the messngo going tor1" asked the operator, as she armed herself with pen and blank. , "To my wife In Providence," he replied, with the most sublime innocence. Tho operator looked at him doubt fully. " What Is the address f To whom is the message going V" The mau eyed her with great aston ishment. ' I told you," he said, raising his voice as if he thought her afllicted with deaf ness, " to my wife In Providence." " I am afraid," the operator replied, trying to speak Ironically, "that the message might not be received if ad dressed in that way. Providence Is ft small place, I knowt but it might possi bly go to some other man's wife." The story of the Irishman who hung lils boots (ui the telegraph wire Is laugh ed at, but Is not really believed any more than many other talea of people who imagine everything 1b transmitted bodi ly over the wires. Yet parallel cases are constantly occurring. A young woman brought a letter,seuled, directed to the snme telegraph office to be " telegraphed," Bhe said. " Shall I open It V" Inquired the opera tor, thinking perhaps the message was inside. The young woman looked insulted. "Of course not!" It was to be "tele graphcd"Just as It was, of course! "Don't you send letters by telegraphy" Bhe asked, with her nose in the air. The operator advised employing the United States mail in the transmission, and the young woman departed with evident impression that telegraph Insti tutions were all nothing more or less than "frauds." Another young woman came Into the Boston office above mentioned. The In evitable " I want to send a telegram," brought tho operator to the window, whom, after explalnlngali the whys and wherefores, and relutlng the family his tory for the past three generations, she dictated the message while the operator wrote. When finished theyoung woman took the document, scrawled in the operator's "third best" handwriting the one that " no one but herself could read" examined It critically, pointed disdainfully to a spider-like word, as she asked : " What's that V crossed a few fa, dotted a few i's, rounded some o's, and finally flung down the message angrily, exclaiming to the wondering operator : " John never will be able to read that ; I shall have to write It myself. And she did. A few months ago, adarkey came Into the office at Balnbrldge, Oa., and said he wanted to send an "expatch" to his girl. " Very well," sold the operator, reach ing for a blank. "What do you want to say to her y" " Now, that's cool," remarked . the ebony customer, " I ain't gwine to tell you what to say to her; I ain't no fool I ain't." And he put his quarter back in his vest pocket and marched off. A Very Honest Quaker. A GOOD story is told of a ship owner of Liverpool, which will bear re peating. Our merchant was a Quaker, and prided himself on bis honesty. He would not have told a downright false hood to save the value of his best ship. Jacob Penn was his name. Once upon a time Friend Jacob suffer ed one of his ships to set sail from Cal cutta for home without any Insurance upon either vessel or cargo. At length he became uneasy. He was confident bis ship had encountered bad weather, and he feared her safety. In thia strait be went to his friend Isaac. He called him Friend ; though I am under the lni jfresslon that Isaac was of the children of Israel. " Friend Isaac,'!, he said, "I would like for thee to insure my ship which Is at sea. I should have done it before.but have carelessly ; neglected, it, , If thee canst have the policy signed, all ready for delivery, at three o'clock on the afternoon of the morrow, I wilL send and get it, and send thee the money in full.", , .. ! Isaac did not seem to be anxious to Insure the ship, but upon being assured that no unfavorable intelligence, had been heard from her be said he would have the policy made out, to take effect on aud after three o'clock of the follow. lng dny, but to cover the ship and cargo from the day of her leaving India. Karly on the following morning Jo cob received a message, by the hand of a captain Just arrived, to the effect that his ship Whs stranded and lie! cargo lost. This was very Unfortunate. Should Friend Isaac happen to hear the news before the policy was made out, bo would not make it at all; or, If It was made, and not signed, he would not sign It. What should hedo He wanted to net honestly. It would notle right to let Tsnno go on and make out that pol icy under such circumstances. Finally he hit upon a plan. He summoned bis confidential clerk, and sent lilm with 1Mb message : " Tell Friend Isaac," he suld, "that I have heard from my ship, and If the policy Is not signed, lie need not slgli It. at all." ' The clock Was close opon the stroke of three when the clerk arrived. Friend Jacob's message was delivered. The ship had been heard from, and If the policy had not yet been signed he need not sign It. ' . " ' "I think I am In season to save It," the clerk sold. " No, sir," answered Isaac, promptly and emphatically. Now In truth the policy of Insurance had not been signed for the insurer bad been in doubt; bnt when he heard the message he judged at once that the ship waB safe, and that Jacob sought to save the heavy Item of the premium he bad agreed to pay. "No, sir," be said ; "you are not In time. It Is past three o'clock. The pol icy Is signed., I will go and get It." He slipped ,out and hastily finished and signed the policy, and having dried the ink be brought It to the clerk, de manding the jeturn sum which bad been agreed upon. . The . money was paid, and the policy was taken home to Friend Jacobs who received it very gladly. , The end we can readily Imagine ; and it is not difficult to Judge which of the two felt most sore over the matter. , , Tracy's Lost Home. ABOUT a mile and a half north of Nodaway station, a point on the Bluff road, about 14 miles from St. Jo seph, Mo., James Tracy, with bis wife and two children i resided for many years. Peace and quiet reigned in that household until Tracy become a drunk ard, i . About eight years ago he committed a robbery at Amazonia and was sent to the penitentiary for two years. Regain ing his liberty at the expiration of his Imprisonment, he resolved to drink no more. But he again fell, and it was not long before he was sent back to his old quarters for two years' for committing a robbery at Elmwood. Shortly after being placed In the penitentiary he kill ed a fellow convict, and was sentenced to another two years and a half. Tracy is a marble cutter by trade. While In the jenitentlary he got up a model piece of workmanship, which was forwarded to Philadelphia and took a premium at the Centennial. For this be had six months of his time com muted. . - Mrs. Tracy remained constant and true until she heard of her husband's last crime. Under the mistaken appre hension that he was to be imprisoned for life, she married again. Last week James Tracy, for the firxt time in four years, placed his feet upon the threshold of his old borne. Sad and tearful was the scene. They both took a sober, thoughtful view of the situa tion. He told her to live as she had been living, and try to forget that he bad ever returned. He made Lis chil dren several presents, gave his wife some money, and took bis departure for St. Joseph, telling his wife to give the chil dren a good education, and If they want ed anything to write to bim, Jaiue Tracy is at work in St. Joseph. A?. Jo- ch Herald. - -. Cod's Alarm Clock. Now, conscience Is God's alarm clock. God bag wound it up so that it may warn us whenever we are tempted to do that which is wrong. It gives the alarm. It seems to say, " Take care, God sees you. Stop!" How important it is to have a conscience that will al ways warn us of the danger of sin ! But if we desire Buch a conscience, we must be willing to listen to it. If we stop when it says " stop," if we do what it tells us to do, then we shall always hear it. But if we get into the habit of not heeding its warning and not doing what it tells us to do. then, by and by, we shall cease to hear It. Our conscience will sleep, its voice of warning will be hush ed, and we shall then be like a ship at sea that has no compass to point out the right way, and no rudder to keep it in tbat way. - y The Adrian (Mich,) Timet print the following as a genuine "excuse" brought to ft teacher, in that, neighbor- . bood : " Miss - please Excuse ruinnia . for she was helping me . She is a grate help to me thou. Small she may be I would miss bur if the lord should Call bur at any time & oblige Mrs. B ."
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