THE TIMES, NEW
BLOOM FIELD, PA., lEWlUAUY 10, 1878.
bewitching scene 1 It Is like fairy
Intnl." " Yen, thanks to Clement's gold.
Money In the only thing worth having,
, Isn't It V" slfthed Alarle.
" No !" said Bessie, emphatically, half
frightened at her own temerity. "It
will not always buy happiness nor
love."
" Not always, perhaps. Hut suppose,
()t lnBtanre, I had Clem's wealth, and
were to say to you, 1 Miss Ilescle' "
" T never suppose 1"
" Then let me say it w ithout Clem's
advantages ! If you tried, Ilessle, dear,
could Jou love me a little V I have
wanted to ask you this many n time, hut
you always avoided me, and I feared
that you saw how I loved you, and
wanted to discourage me. Is It so y Am
"
" You think I am Jenny lturston.and
and" .
"Hang Jenny Hurston!'' exclaimed
Alarlc, pressing Bessie's hand in his,
and stealing his arm around her supple
waist. "You know better! Jtessie,
darling, can you love y i
"I I don't know. Aunt Anna"
"Nevermind Aunt Anna, hookup
and tell me."
Hessle glanced up in her lover's face,
and he read hi answer In her happy
eyes. Bending down, he kissed her
tenderly, and whispered Hut a lover's
words are saered.
" AI! Al!" cried Clement. " Where
re you y"
80 the delightful hie a tele was Inter
rupted. In a few momenta Alario found him
self at liberty to seek Mrs. Helling.
Finding her In tlte midst of a bevy of
girls, he offered her his arm, and asked
her to go with him and get an ice.
Startled by an undefinable something in
his tone, she did bo, and as soon as they
were out of hearing of the rest, he
-aid :
" Mrs. Helling, Clement and I owe
you a thousand apologies; we have been
- lecelving you.' Hut I am the only one
to blame; Clem Is honor itself !"
" What do you mean y Hirty ex
plain," she said.
" Why, the truth is that Clement and
1 are here under false colors. The wealth
for which he is worshiped is mine, and
he Is the poor doctor," answered Alarlc,
explaining how and why he pretended
to be poor. " This would not be so bad,
hut that Clement has lost his heart as
true and honest a one as ever beat ! to
your daughter. ' Of course, "under the
circumstances, he will go away at
once."
" Why y" said Mrs. Reiling, coolly.
Is he married or betrothed V"
" No, indeed! But 1 he has nothing
but his practice, and Miss Camilla"
"Now Dr. Warrington!" said Mrs.
Ueillng, laughing, "I think If I ' were
Clement I would consult Camilla her
self before I went away In such a great
hurry."
" Do you really mean it y May I tell
him soy
"If you choose. If Clement had
fancied poor Bessie now, who has noth
ing" 1
" But who, with your permission, dear
madam, will have all that I possess.
No, nol I can't resign her to Clem
ent." . (
Supper was served in a roomy tent
that gave every one an opportunity to
sit comfortably down by the table. The
viands were rich, rare, and abundant,
and both young and old did justice to
them. Presently Alarlc rose and said:
" Ladies and gentlemen, I propose a
toast to our host. May his future life be
richer in true happiness than his past or
present has been in gold or silver."
The toast was drank, though more
than one fair guest wondered not a little
thereat. Finding that no explanation
was volunteered, Lizzie Carroll exclaim
! " Either I am very stupid, Dr. War
rington, or your words have a hidden
meaning. Which is It y"
. " The latter, the latter, Miss Carroll.
How can you suggest that are
stupid."
" Pray explain the mystery."
" I will do so by proxy. Miss Burs
ton, will you lie good enough to do so for
me?"
Jenny Rurston started at these words.
Turning first red, then pale, to the se
cret astonishment of all present, she
stammered : '
" I I really I don't know what you
mean."
" Oh, yes, you do. Pray tell our friend's
who is the poor doctor and who the
wealthy young eligible. Roth Clement
and I are bashful, and as you and your
aunt are the only ones here In the secret,
I must insist that you come to my
uid." i
, Jtotb Jenny and Mrs. Hurston were
guaatly , pale. Clement divined from
their looks that Alario had a good rea.
t-on for his request, so he added :
" Yes, Mrs. Burston, pray oblige me
too."
" There is no mystery," said Jenny,
hesitatingly.
"No mystery y Am I a poverty-
stricken physician f Is Clem rolling In
riches ? Come, you are unkind."
" IIow did you know that I What
do you tuean y" said Jenny.
" Well, If Miss Hurston will not tell, I
must," said Alarlc, proceeding to ex
plain to the assembled guests.
Clement said nothing. He looked un
easily at Mrs. Helling, but she gave him
a knowing, re-assuvlng nod that spoke
volumes. He glanced at Camilla; she
looked surprised, but not In the least
displeased, so he concluded that it was
not so bad, after all.
This disclosure caused a great deal of
talk at Oak drove,' of course. ' Some
reople blamed Clement severely, hut the
majority laughed pleasantly and con
sldered the aflalr a very good joke. Mrs.
Helling was congratulated upon the good
fortune that awaited her penniless
niece, and also (by the truly honest)
upon her prospective son-in-law; for
Camilla and Clement, sitting sWe by
side in the boat on their way home from
Emerald Island that night, had thus
settled their own future.
TheBurstons left Oak drove early
the next day. For a long time it was a
mystery to Alarlc and Clement how
these two perfect strangers had heard of
their Intended visit to Oak drove under
false pretences, but at last it was ex
plained. Alurlc's lawyers, Messrs.
Juris and TiPgts, had a young clerk
named Brown, whose only sister Jenny,
a handsome girl, was determined to mar
ry money; the young clerk learned all
the particulars of Alarlc's wealth and
romantioplan for the summer, and, of
course, gave his sister a hint of the mat
ter. Jcpny, who had about three thou
sands dollars, took an old friend Into
her confidence, and the two, laying in a
good supply of finery, went to Oak
Grove as Mrs. and Miss Hurston, witli
the intention of conquering young War
rington, and his money, cost what It
might to either purse or conscience.
But though very mortifying to the
young woman we are glad to lie able to
state that the doctor was not the victim
of "Jenny's riot." ,:.
Why the Neighbors Don't Speak.
AS WE entered the edge of the town
(Hamilton, Bermuda Islands) that
Kunday afternoon, we stopped at a cot
tage to get a drink of water.' The pro
prietor, a middle aged hian with a good
face, asked us to sit down and rest. His
dame brought chairs, and we grouped
ourselves In the shade of the trees by the
door. Mr. Smith, that , was not his
name, but it will answer, questioned us
about ourselves and our country, and we
answered him truthfully, as a general
thing, and questioned him in return. It
was all very .simple and pleasing, and
sociable. Hura, too; for there was a
pig and a small donkey and a hen an
chored out, close at hand, by cords to
their legs, on a spot that purported to be
grassy. Presently, a woman passed
along, and although . she coldly said
nothing she changed the drift 1 of our
talk. BaidSmlth: . .. , .
" 8he didn't look this way, you no
ticed y Well, she is our nelghboron one
side, and there's another family that's
our next neighbor on the other side ; but
there's a general coolness ' around now,
and we don't speak. ' Yet these three
families, one generation and other, have
lived there side by side and been as
friendly as weavers for a hundred and
fifty years, till about a year ago." ,.
"Why, what calamity could have
been powerful enough to break up so
old a friendship y". ,
" Well, it was too bad, but it couldn't
be helped. It happened like this: About
a year or lnore ago the rats got to pester
ing my place a good deal, and I set up a
steel trap in the back yard. Both of
these neighbors run considerable to cats,
and so I warned them about the trap,
because their cats were pretty ; sociable
around here nights, and they might get
into trouble without my Intending it.
Well, they shut up their cats for awhile,
but you know how it is with people;
they got careless, and sure enough the
trap took Mrs. Jones' principal tomcat
Into camp, and finished him up. In the
morning Mrs. Jones come here with the
corpse in her arms, and cries and takes
on the same as if it was a child. It was
a cat by the name of Yelverton Hector
O. Yelverton a troublesome old rip,
with no more principle than an Injun,
though you couldn't make bef beileve
it. I said all a man could to . comfort
her, but, no, nothing would do but I
must pay for him. Finally, I suid I
wasn't investing in cats now as much as
I was, aud with that she walked oil in
a huff, carrying the remains with her.
That closed our intercourse with the
Joneses. Mrs. Jones joined another
church and took her tribe with her. Bhe
said she would not hold fellowship with
assassins. i ;
. " Well.by and by comes Mrs. Brown's
turn she went by here a minute ago.
Bhe had a disgraceful old yellow cat that
she thought as much of as if he was
twins, and one night he tried that trap
upon his neck, aud it fitted him so, and
was sort of satisfactory, that he laid
down and curled up, and stayed with it.
Huch was the end of Sir John Bald
win." " Was that the name of the cat V"
" The same. There's cats around here
with names that would surprise you.
Maria," to his wife, " what was that
cat's name that eat a keg of ratsbane by
mistake over at Hooper's, and struck by
lightning and took ' the blind staggers
and fell In the Well and was most
drowned before they could fish . him
outy
" That was that colored Deacon Jack
son's cat. I only remember that the
last end of its name., which was, To-Be-Or-Not-to-Be
That Is The tiuestlon
Jackson." " Hho I that ain't the oue. That's the
one that eat up an entire box of Keldlltz
powders, and then hadn't any more
judgment than to go and take a drink.
He was considered to be a great loss, but
I never could see it. Well, no matter
about the names. Mrs. Brown wanted
to be reasonable, but Mrs. Jones would
not let her. Bhe put her up to going to
law for damages. Bo to law she went
and had the face to claim seven shil
lings and sixpence. It made a great
stir. All the neighbors went to court.
Everybody took sides. I got hotter and
broke up all the friendships for five hun
dred yards around friendships that had
lusted for generations and generations.
" Well, I proved by eleven witnesses
that the cat was of a low character aud
very ornery, and wasn't worth n can
celled postage stamp taking the average
of cats here; but I lost the case. What
could I expect y The system is all
wrong here, and Is bound to revolution
and bloodshed some day. You see, they
give the magistrate a poor little starva
tion salary, aud then turn him loose
on the public to gouge for fees and costs
to live on. What is the natural result t
Why, lie never looks into the justice of
a case never once. All he looks at is
which client has got the money. Bo
this one piled the fees and cost and
everything on to me. I could pay
specie don't you see' and he knew
mighty well he put In the verdict on
Mrs. Brown, where It belonged, he'd
have to give his swag in currency."
" Currency t Why, has Bermuda a
currency
"Yes, onions. And they were forty
per cent, discount, too, then, because
the season had been over as much as
three months. Bo I( lost my: case. I
had to pay for that cat. But the general
trouble the case made was the worst
thing about it. Broke up so much good
feeling. The neighbors dou't speak to
each other now." . , ;
French Justice. .' ,
A French deserter, Thomerel, aged 1ft,
went to a restaurant, dined quietly In a
private room, finishing with coffee aud
brandy. Then, getting behind the door,
he awaited the entrance of the waiter,
and, springing on him, stabbed1 him.
The waiter, who was so slightly wound
ed, rushed for aid, and Thomerel was
arrested. At his trial he said that ' he
had no grudge against the waiter, whom
he had never seen before in his life, but
he was so dreadfully bored with his
existence that he determined to kill
somebody so as to get killed in return.
He had a good record in the regiment,
but it came out that he had passed two
years and a half in prison for attempted
asslsslnation. The plea of Insanity was
put forward, but rejected by the court,
it being shown that there had been too
much method such as the purchase of
a particular kind of knife in Thor
merel'a madness, and the Judge being
clearly of opinion that this kind of enmii
must be severely repressed, sent him to
hard labor for 20 years.
Laughter.
No man who has once heartily and
wholly laughed can be altogether irre.
clalmably bad.' How much lies In
laughter the cipher-key wherewith wo
decipher the whole man. Some men
wear an everlasting barren simper ; in
the smile of others lies a cold glitter as
of Ice ; the fewest are able to laugh what
can be called laughing, but only snuff
and titter and snigger from the throat
outward, or at best produco some whir
ling, huffy cachlnnatton, as if they were
laughing through wool; of none such
comes good. The man who cannot
laugli is not only fit for treason, strata
gems and spoils, but his whole life Is al
ready a treason and a stratagem.
A Weigh They Had.
Two.hunters shot a deer in a Western
forest. Having no means at hand of
weighing it, they devised a novel plan.
A. knew his weight to be 14(1 lbs. ; E.
knew his to be 180 lbs. A horizontal
pole was placed across a strong support
and balanced. A. was then suspended
from one eud, and E. from the other,
and the pole gradually drawn along
towards A. until both men exactly bal
anced each other. Theyythen changed
ends, and when A. added the weight of
theduer to his own, both men again
balanced. (uery what was the weight
of the deer? 1
For Tint Timk.
A SONG BY JAMES HUMES.'
Respectfully dedicated to the Murphy
cause at Randy Hill, Perry county, Pa.
Got out of the way, ye topers now,
Here cornea the Murphy band, ..
By fair and honest means to try
And tare our happy land.
Then come with ua, ye ladles fair,
And help ut all you can
To drlre the monster rum away
From out "Columbia's" land.
For well we know without your aid,
We in our cause mnet fall,
But Joined with your omnlclent power,
,' We must and will prevail. J ; j j
Bo now good-by old barrela and kegs,
And flank and bottlea too, " ' '
We all have Joined the Murphy Pledge,
And have no need for you.
No more you'll need to aplce your breath,
To hide the Whlakey smell,
Or atay away from heated atovea
That on the drunkard tell.
. And you that vend this 11 jnld lire, ,
Be mindful what ye do,
Blnce you have cureed your country ao,
You must knock under too. ,
And now " three cheers" for the temperance
cause, ,
And " three cheers" for all who Join,
And three Tor Columbia's daughter fair,
Tlint help our cause along.
Ludicrous.
An English lady, who lived in the
country and was about to have a large
dinner-party, was ambitious of making
as great a display as her husband's
establishment a tolerably large one
could furnish. , So that there might
seem to be no lack of servants, a great
lad, who had been only employed on
farm work, was trimmed and dressed for
the occasion, and ordered to take his
stand behind his mistress's chair, with
strict injunctions uot to stir from the
place, nor to do anything, unless she
directed him the lady well knowing
that although no footman could make a
better appearance in still life, some awk
wardness would be Inevitable If . he
were put In motion. Accordingly,
Thomas, having been thus duly drilled
and enjoined, took his post at the head
of the table, behind his mistress, and for
awhile ' found sufficient amusements
in looking at the grand "set-out" and
staring at the guests. When he was
weary of this, and of an inaction to
which he was so little used, his eye be
gan to pry about among nearer objects.
It was at a time when the ladles follow
ed the French fashion of having the
back and shoulders, under the nape of
the neck, uncovered much lower than
accords either1 with the English climate
or with old English notions. This lady
was In the height, or lowness, of that
fashion, and, between her shoulder
blades, not far from the confines where
nakedness and clothing met, Thomas
espied something. The guests were too
much engaged with the business and the
courtesies of the table to see what must
have been worth seeingthe transfigu
ration produced In Thomas' counte
nance by delight when he saw so fine an
opportunity of showing himself atten
tive and making himself useful. The
lady was too much occupied with her
company to feel the flea; but to her hor
ror she felt the great finger and thumb
of Thomas upon her back, and to her
great horror heard him exclaim with ex
ultation, to the still greater amusement
of the party : " A Vlea 1 vlea, my lady !
Echod! I've caught 'en!"
Astonishing Effect of the Imagination.
A strange case is that of Henry C.
Erskman, living in Berks county, who
is the owner of considerable property.
Up to within several weeks ago he was
hale and hearty. Notwithstanding bis
abundance of this world's goods he gen
erally wore one suit of clothes during
the week and on Bunday. Several weeks
ago he was startled because he imagined
that a very offensive odor came from his
ears or mouth or the pores of the skin.
He was greatly alarmed, and Imagined
he was sinking Into galloping consump
tion, and was gradually decaying. He
was unable to sleep, became haggard
and emaciated, and even his friends be
gan to imagine that bis end was near at
hand. 'He dressed himself regularly,
and was determined to keep on his feet.
He went into the fields and in the woods
determined to fight down his disease,
but wherever he went the same dread
ful stench and feeling came over bim.
Finally, an old wood-chopper met him
in the woods one day. The woodman
bad a long talk with bim, and he stood
quite close to examine him. Then the
woodman asked the sick man for his
coat. It was examined. The woodman
carried it away twenty yards, and it was
discovered that the stench followed. The
coat was thoroughly examined, and a
dead mouse was found In the lining.
The mouse bad by some means gotten
in the lining of his coat and died there,
and its decaying body caused the unpleas
ant effluvia.' When this was known
the sufferer gained courage, and as he
slowly realized' what imagination had
done, he rallied and was soon ou the
road to health.
VEGETINE
HER OWN WOrtDS.
Mr. II. R. Bteven,B8Ulm0r'' m' 13' ,R"'
Dear Sir, Since several year since T hare tot a
sore and yery painful loot. I had some pbysl
Hans, but they couldn't cure me. How I bare
heard ol your Venetlne from a lady who was sick
for a long lime and became all well from your
Vegetlne, and 1 went and bought me one bottle of
your ygetmei and utter 1 had used one bottle,
the pa ns left me and It began to heal, and then i
bought one other bottle, and no I take It J et. I
thank (lod lor tills remedy add yourself t and
wishing every sufferer may pay attention to lt.
II Is a blessing tor health.
Mas, (j. KKABK, 638 West Baltimore Bt.
VEGETINE.
SAKE AND SURE. ' '
Mr. H. H. Stevens.
In 1R72 your Vegetlne was recommended to me
and yielding- to the persuasions of a friend
J consented to try U. At tile time I VasmiflerliiR
from general debility and nervous prostration,
superinduced by overwork and Irregular habits.
Its wonderful strengthening and curative proper
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the first dose; and under Its persistent use I ran
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. W. JI. BLARK.
120 Monterey St., Alleghany, Pa.
VEGETINE.
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H.H.RIevens. ' Charlestown.
l),ln,lr-lPl1 l rorertlfy that I have used
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medicine. Yours respectfully,
Mrs. A. A, DINSMORE, 19 Russell St.
VE&ETINE
WHAT IS NEEDED.
u ' Boston, Feb. 13, 1871.
H. R. Steveus. '
Dear Sir, About one year ago I found myself
In a feeble condition from general debility. Veg
etlne was strongly recommended to me by a
friend who had been much benelitted by Its use
I procured the article, and. after using several
bottles, was restored to health and discontinued
Its use. 1 feel quite contldent that there Is no
medicine superior to It for those complaints lor
which It especially prepared and would cheerful
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something to restore them to perfect health.
Respectfully yours, IT. L. PKTTKNGILIj,
Firm of 8 M. Pettenglll & Co.,
No. 10. Stalest., Boston.
VEGETINE.
ALL HAVE OBTAINED RELIEF.
Ti c, South Berwick, Me., Jan. 17,1872.
II. H. Stevens.
Dear Sir. I have had dyspepsia In Its worst
form for the last (en years, and have taken hun
dreds of dollars' worth of medicines without ob
ta nlng any relief. In Sept. last I commenced
taking Vegetine. My loort digests well, and I
have gained 11 f teen pounds of flesh. There are
several others In this place taklug Vegetlne. and
all have obtained relief. -
Yours truly THOMAS E. MOORE.
Overseerof Card Room, Portsmouth C'o."s Mills.
VKOKTINK
" ! Prepare . ' '
H. R. STEVENS, Boston Mass.
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