THE TIMES,
RAILROADS
PHILADELPHIA AND READING R. R
ARRANGEMENT Of PA88KNGKR TRAINS.
nay I2lh, 1S78.
TRAINS LBAVK II ARKISBU11H AS FOLLOWS
For Now York, at 6.20, 1.10 .D1. LOOp. m.,
and 7.55 p. m.
For Philadelphia, at 6.20, 6.10, H.45 a.m.
2.011 and 8.67 p. in.
For Heading, at 6.20, 8.10, 9.15 a. m. and 3.00
3.57 and 7.55.
For 1'oUsvllle at 6.20, 8.10 a. m., and 8.67
&, in., and via Schuylkill and Susquehanna
ranch at 2.40 p. in.
For Auburn via H. & R. Br. at 6.S0 ft. m.
For Allentown, at 6.20, 8.10a. m.,andat 2.00,
3.67 and 7.66 p. in.
The 6.20, .I0 a.m., and 7.65 p. m., trains
have through cars for New York.
The 5.20, a. in., and 2.oo p.m., trains have
Ih rough cars (or Philadelphia.
SUNDAYS I
For New York, at 6.20 a. in.
For Allentown and Way Stations at ft.Soa. m.
For Heading, Philadelphia aud Way Statlousat
1.45 p. m.
TKAINS FOH It AUHISHURQ, LEAVE A8 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. 4.00, and
7.20 p.m. .
Leave Hearting, at t4.40, 7.40, 11.20 a. m. 1.30,
6.15 and In. 85 p. m. .
Leave Fottsville, at 6. 10, 9.15 a.m. and 4.35
p. in.
And via Schuylkill and Susquehanna Branch at
8.15 a.m.
Leave Auburn vlaS. S. Br. at 12 noon.
Leave Alientowu, at R3U 5,60, 11.05 a. m.. 12.15
4.30 and 9.0) p. in.
SUNDAYS:
Leave New York, ato.no p. in.
Leave Philadelphia, lit 7.20 p. in.
Leave Heading, at 4.40, 7.40, a. in. and 10.3S
P lleave Allontown, at2 30 a. m., and 9.06 p. m.
J.K. WODTKN, (ten. Manager.
C. O. Hancock, Oeneral Ticket Agent.
flloes not run on Mondays.
Via Morris aud Essex H. It.
Pennsylvania It. It. Time Table.
NEWPORT STATION.
On and after Monday, June 25th, 1877, Pas
senger tralnswlll run as follows:
EAST.
Mimintown Ace. 7.32 a. m., dallvexceptSunday.
Johnstown Ex. 12.22 V. u., dally " Sunday
Mall 6.64 f. m., dally exceptsuuday
Atlantic Express, 9.51P.M., flag, dally.
WEST.
WayFass.9.08 A. nr., daily,
Mall 2.43 r. m. dally exoeptSunday.
Millllntown Ace. 6.65P. M. datlyexceptSunday.
Pittsburgh Express, 11.671. M.,(Plag) daily, ex
cept Sunday.
Paclllo Express, 8.17 a. m., dally (flag)
Trains are now run by Philadelphia time, which
Is 13 minutes faster than Altoona time, aud 4 min
utes slower thau New York time.
J.J. BARCLAY, Agent.
DUNCANNON STATION.
On and after Monday, June 25th, 1877,tralns
will leave Duncannon, as follows i
EASTWARD.
Mifllintown Acc. dally except Sunday at 8.12a. m.
Johnstown Ex. 12.53V. u., dally except Sunday.
Mall 7.30 P. M " " "
Atlantio Express 10.20 p. K., dally (flag)
WESTWARD.
Way Passenger, 8.38 A. M., daily
Mall, 2.09 p. m datlyexceptSunday.
Millllntown Ace. dally except Sunday at 6.10p.m.
Pittsburg Ex. dally except Sunday (flag) 11.33P. M.
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THE DOCTOR'S STORY.
WE WERE a knot of doeters,' en
joying ourselves after a meeting of
the Hlppocratlo Medical Society, whose
members were accustomed to assemble
once a year for purposes of mutual edlfl.
.cntlon and improvement. Dr. Gallen
Cupps was in the chair. lie was our
Nestor, our old man eloquent, a living
professional legendary budget. On his
face you could read " Entortalnment"
as plainly as you ever saw it painted on
an old fashioned tavern sign ; and to it,
after a day of weary rambling over the
dusty paths of therapeutic lore, we turn
ed as naturally for refreshment as the
tired wayfarer halts before the invita
tion sign-board waving hospitable wel
come to the cheer within,
denial Dr. Cupps I Like Father
0 rimes, that other good old man, " we'll
never see him more." No monument
marks his lust resting-place. The guild
of undertakers, possessed they a spark
of gratitude, would not suffer this to be.
As for his surviving professional breth
em, few of us, I fear have money to
spare that way.
" How do young doctors, as a rule,
get their llrst start V" queried a cynical
looking M. D. at the foot of the table,
with a nose bb sharp as the tip of his
own lancet " leaving out, of course,
exceptional cases, like that of a man
swallowing a llsh-bone, or dropping
suddenly in a fit, where there's no
choice but to seek the nearest acid.
What I ask is, how do people come t
trust their lives deliberately in inexper
ienced hands V What's the philosophy
ofltV"
" Popular Ignorance, probably," sug
gested one.
" Or cheek In the youngster," another
hinted.
" It's mostly luck, I think," remark
ed the chair, whereon had converged a
number of inquiring looks.
" Come, doctor, give us your experi
ence on the point," was moved and
seconded.
" Mine was a case of pure luck," ho
said.
" Won't you tell us about it V" we
entreated. Dr. Cupps wbb not tho man
to refuse.
" Young men now-a days," he began,
" enter the profession with other advan
tages than we old fellows had. The
public hospitals, now accessible to
students, afford the opportunities to
learn much by observation, which we
were left to find out through experiments
on our own patients.
" Though I took my degree after a
creditable examination, I doubt if I
could then have distinguished, by In
spection, between the incipient stages of
chicken-pox and measles. Had I been
called to treat a simple case of rheuma
tism, ten to one I should have found a
verdict of white-swelling, and passed a
sentence of amputation without stop
ping to ask the victim what he had to
say against It. My first patient was
Percy Tophain, a young man who had
inherited a splendid constitution as well
as fortune, but was fast making way
with both. The case, no doubt, would
have fallen into Dingo's hands, for he
monopolized the practice thereabout,
but for his absence on a distant call."
" Come quick, sir 1" urged the mes
senger ; " Mr. Percy's taking on at an
awful rate."
" Without staying to Inquire further,
1 snatched my hat and sallied forth,
quite forgetting, In the excitement, the
new pill-bags wherein was stored , my
stock of samples.
" I arrived to find my patient ' taking
on' at an awful rate sure enough.
" Poker in hand, he was laying about
him in a manner highly detrimental to
the furniture. He was killing snakes
he said. Had it been dogs, hydrophobia
might have been my diagnosis; but
snakes, I knew, meant delirium tremens.
And such was the dicislon of Mr. Top
ham's own more practical judgement,
for, turning toward me, in a lucid mo
ment: " I've got 'em, Doc," he said.
" I did my best to calm him, assured
him I should bring him round, placed
my fingers on his pulse, aud began to
count the beats, but darting from me,
he exclaimed :
" There goes the biggest snake yet
the old serpent of all !" making a slash
with the poker that caused me to dodge
into the corner.
" Leaving two to watch him, and ac
companied by the man who had sum
moned me, I hurried home to procure
such remedies as I should conclude the
case required a point, I must confess,
I was very far from clear upon. 1 had
been reared in a temperate community,
had seen little of intoxication or its
effect, and my reading had not borne
specially in that direction.
" Before reaching my office, however,
I decided what course to take. There
was do time to consult ' books. Besides,
I was ashamed to do that in the pre
sence of the man who waited to carry
back the physic. He would have taken
it for a ..confession of Ignorance, and
would have lost no time in proclaiming
me a dunce.
" Overhauling my supply of drug,
and taking a little from every one, I
produced a mixture somo element of
which I hoped might prove a service.
" Give htm a tablespoon ful of It every
half hour," I said to the man handing
htm the bottle, on which I was careful
not to put a luliil.
" Not caring to be present to witness
the effect of my maiden prescription,
" Tell Mr. Tophain I'll call in the morn
ing," I said.
" Whatever my patient did, I passed
a bad night. Of all cases in which to
make my debut, why should tho mallg
mint fates Bend the very one most likely
to ex pose me t
" With many misgivings I presented
myself next morning at the patient's
door. I was glad to see there was no
crape on it. Passing the servant who
admitted me, I hurried trembling to the
sick room.
"Good-morning Doc," cried the In
valid rising trom a sumptuous break
fast, wiping his mouth with one hand,
and extending me the other. " By
George, you did bring me through
famously I That stuff is mighty nasty,
but it did the business. I'm sound as a
dollar this morning 1"
" Before I could reply, a serving-man
entered, the same by whom I had sent
the medicine.
"What's the matter, Dick V" said
Topham.
" Boxer's dead, sir V"
" Dead 1 The deuce ! There's a go t
I suppose you forgot to call at Bolt's
the furrier's for that drencli yesterday ;
Just like you when my buck is turned."
" No,sir," the man replied : "I stopped
and got it on my way from the doc
tor's and gave It according to direction.
"Just my luckl" cried Tophain,
smiting the table. "You see, Doc,
Boxer was my fastest trotter. I count
ed on winning a mint of money on him
at the coming races, and now he's gone
aud kicked the bucket. Well, ' peace
to his name I' as the poet says. Here,
Dick, hand the doctor that medicine
bottle from the mantle. He may as
well fill It up again. This morning's
luck may set me on a fresh spree, and
there's no telling how soon I may need
another dose."
" A glance at the bottle as I took it
made me start. It bore a label, on which
I read Simon Botts, Farrier.
" Can it be," I mentally exclaimed,
" that it was Botts' potion that cured
the man, and mine that killed the
horse V" It was a strong case of cir
cumstantial evidence, at any rate.
" Quietly pocketing the bottle, I went
my way. If the truth was as I surmis
ed, it never came out. Topham sounded
my praise everywhere, and soon the
local death-list was pretty equally filled
with the names of old Dingo's patients
and my own."
Dyed by Lightning. f
The Chicago Tribune,n a recent issue,
says : Seldom has the electrio fluid done
a more curious thing than on yesterday
morning at three o'clock at the residence
of H. I. Guild. Mr. Guild and his wife
were occupying a bedroom In the Becond
story and Lottie, a bright faced child of
four years of age.wlth golden curls,occu
pled a double cot on the first floor in com
pany with her grandmother, Mrs. J. J.
Ames, aged about 50 years. This cot was
placed under the opening of the main
flue of the chimney. The first recollec
tion that Mr. Guild had of the situation
was that he was on the floor of the bed
room with his wife clinging to him and
screaming. He turned on the light, and
at first glance discovered that the patches
of plastering in the ceiling of his room
and in tho rooms adjoining were hang
ing over his head and the lathing pro
truding. The shingles in the vicinity
of the chimney were torn up. He then
concluded that lightning had done the
work. The next thought was the grand
mother and his daughter Lottie below.
Upon arriving in their room, the little
innocent, her face, head of curls, and
hands black with the soot of the flue,
commenced to clap her hands at the ap
pearance of the grandmother, who was
also blackened with the soot. Upon ex
amination, Mrs. Ames was found to be
in an insensible condition, and a doctor
was summoned. He applied remedies.
The child told the story of how the
fire came down the chimney, and knock
ed herself an " grandma" from the cot
to the floor. The child was then sub
jected to a severe bath, and then was
discovered the most remarkable feature
of the whole affair. The profusion of
curls, which were of unusual length,
reaching almost to the child's waist, and
which had been of a bright golden hue,
were of a blue-black or inky color from
the roots to the tip. A closer examina
tion revealed the still further singular
fact that the scalp of the head was also
colored, indelibly it seemed, the same as
the hair. Up to to six o'clock on yes
terday afternoon, after a lapse of fifteen
hours, and after repeated washings with
ammonia and other solutions, every
hair remained the feame shade as when
the change was first notlecd.and so with
the scalp of the head.
The physician said that the remarka
ble ohnngo might have been the result of
electricity, but beyond this lie did not
venture an explanation. He had heard
of one or two instances like it. The
vitality of the hair did not seem to be
destroycd.for it was still ns soft as silken
skeins. The child seemed as lively as a
cricket, and rather pleased than other
wise at the sudden transformation from
a brunette without cost.
HICKMAN AND CANADA BILL.
THE New York Clipper says : Canada
Bill one time was passing through
Washington, on his way to New York,
after a successful gambling trip on the
steamboats of the Western and Southern
rivers. The thought struck him that he
would stop nud see Beau Hickman, the
great wag, then world-famous as a clever
trickster. The two sports met on the
steps of the huge marble Capitol. Hick
man had been pointed out to Canada
Bill by a bootblack.
",Is your name Hickman, pard V" in
quired Bill, extending his hand. (
" The same, sir. Whose hand might
I have the honor of pressing V" return
ed Hickman, thinking that his new ac
quaintance was a newly arrived West,
cm member of Congress,
" The hand you grasp, pard," respond
ed Bill, " is one generally known as be
ing more able to deal cleverly than fair
ly. I, like yourself, am one of society's
razor strops. Iain "
"Canada Bill, by gum I"
"Bhoko the uumber-two-tlmes for
I'm glad to meet you Hickman."
" How long are you going to stop in
town V"
" Stopped off expressly to make your
acquaintance."
" Are you known in this city V"
" No."
" Then I'll turn you to good account.
How much money have you to venture
on a Bure thing V"
" Got $0,000."
" With you V"
" Right here," and Canada Bill pulled
forth two huge rolls of bills.
" How would you like to turn that
into $12,000 within the next three
days V"
" Name the job, and I'm your man V"
" Sh 1 We'll take a drink," and Hick
man led the monte-tosser into the card
room of a fashionable sample-room.
The next day a genteel, solemn-looking
man entered the gentleman's par
lors at wiiiara's Hotel, which were
filled with Senators, Congressmen, and
office-seekers and holders of all grades.
He carried a small note-book in his
hand, and as he approached each group
he would bow and say :
" Gentlemen, I am collecting money
for a widow lady and her three children.
They belong to a once proud but now
cast-down family. If you will aid them
please ask no further questions, but give
what you see fit."
In this entire hotel the gentlemanly
beggar only received three donations of
twenty-five cents ,each. The others
waved him impatiently aside, while
some plainly told him he was an impos
tor. Before leaving he said quietly to
the three gentleman who had given him
money :
" This will be repaid to you ten-fold
to-morrow evening at this hour."
He then took the address of each, ask
ing them to not fail to be in the parlor
next evening to get their money, and
cautioning them to speak to no one of
his promise that he was Sir Orlando
Matterson, President of the Royal Lon
don Society for the Encouragement of
Benevolence.
As a matter of course, before he had
got a block away from the hotel, every
one knew all he bad said and done, and
all considered him some crazy fanatic.
Then a report got abroad that he was an
immensely rich but insane Fnglishman,
who spent yearly hundreds of thou
sands in seeking those out who were
willing to lend aid to the needy, and in
rewarding them afterward, so that ac
cording to his cracked brain, the cause
of charity might be in a general way ac
celerated. The next evening he came again ask
ing alms, and every one was on the look
out for him. He first singled out the
three gentlemen who .had given him
twenty-five cents each, and very quietly
passed each an envelope containing $2,-
60, and a small card, upon which was
printed : " Give and you shall receive,
" Cast your bread on the waters, and it
shall be returned to you tenfold." "Re
member the example of Sir Orlando
Matterson as you journey through life."
Sir Orlando Matterson took $73 in
donations from the house that night,
and it was noticeable that those whom
his example had thus quickened were
very careful that he should have their
correct address. The same result fol
lowed In each of the score of the hotels
and Bample-rooms which he had lnitia
ted on the night before. The third night
he, with a solemn face, returned to each
donor of the previous night tho exact
ten-fold promised.
" It would be a Joy which Would con-
sldor cheaply purchased," said he confi
dentially to a dozen gentlemen, " if at
the cost of half a million dollars I could
teach the citizens of this beautiful city
to be thoroughly generous to the poor."
This night lie was like the ticket
seller at tho railroad. One, two, five,
ten, and even twenty dollar bills were
shoved at him on all sides, so great had
been the awakening in the cause of
benevolence which the example of Sir
Orlando Matterson had aroused. A
benign smile hovered about his mouth,
and a tear that glittered betimes in his
mild, kind eye proclaimed the Joy his
soul felt as he shoved bill after bill into
his pockets and gazed with the look of a
father upon his converts.
That night Canada Bill shows up to
Beau Hickman something over f 18,000.
" We'll split now," suggested Bill, as
he ceased counting.
"'Twouldn't give you $12,000," quoth
Hickman. "Let It be till to-morrow
night. I think I can raise a little ' hush,
money' on this racket."
Next nlijht Beau Hickman went the
rounds, and fouud groups of expectant
converts waltln to see Sir Orlando Mat
terson. One at a time, as fust as he
could do so, he would take one after
another of the most prominent gentle
men aside and whisper in his ear:
" I have got a little subscription book
here which was handed to me by a
friend as he took the train this morn
ing for New York. Sorry you got sold
on Orlando Matterson. He's skipped
out. That was Canada Bill, the three
card monte man."
"Is Unit so?"
"Sure. Here's the book, with your
name in it for $20."
" Well, for gracious sake, Beau, don't
show that note-book to any one. And
scratch my name off It, will you ?"
" Certainly," returned Hickman,
scratching over the name with his pen
cil ; " but, Governor, I'm kind a-short
to-night. Couldn't you lend me $20 till
to-morrow?"
With a wry fuco the victim would
rull forth his pocket-book, and placing
the bill demanded in Hickman's hand
would slip quietly from the hotel to the
street.
That night the two worthies divided,
and the share of each was over twelve
thousand dollars.
Both Beau Hickman aud Canada BUI
whose tricks ou the unwary obtained
for them thousands of dollars, died poor,
and were buried as paupers; and the
moral is, that no matter how much a
man makes dishonestly or by trickery,
he will Booner or later bo found out, and
doubtless die a miserable, deserted out
cast. A Pupil of Liszt.
A YOUNG pianist was giving con
certs through the provinces of
Germany for her support, and to en
hance her reputation she advertised
herself as a pupil' of Liszt. In a little
town in the Interior of Germany, where
she had announced a concert, she was
confounded the day before the concert
was to take place by seeing in the list
of arrivals and at the very hotel where
the concert was to be given," M. L'Abbe
Liszt." Here was a dilemma, and what
to do she knew not. Her fraud would
be discovered; she would be ex
posed ; she could never give another
concert; she was ruined.
Tremblingly she sought the presence
of the great maestro, determined to
make a clean breast of it, and cast her
self on his mercy. Coming into his
room with downcast eyes, she knelt at
the old man's feet, and with many tears
told her story how she had been left an
orphan and poor, with only her one gift
of music with which to support herself;
the difficulties she had encountered, un
til the fraudulent use of his great name
had filled her rooms and her purse,
"Well, well," said the great man,
gently raising her up, " let us see, my
child, what we can do. Perhaps it is
not so bad as you thought. There is a
piano ; let me hear one of the pieces you
expect to play to-morrow evening.
Tremblingly she obeyed, maestro
making comments and suggestions as
she played, and when she had finished
he added : " Now, my child, I have
given you a lesson ; you are a pupil of
Liszt." Before she could find words to
express her gratitude Liszt asked : " Are
your programmes printed?" "No,
sir," was the answer, " not yet." " Then
say that you will be assisted by your
master, and that the last piece on the
programme will be played oy the Abbe
Liszt."
Little Jennie is a generous little
body. The other day her grandfather
gave her a cent to buy herself some can
dy. As she wag going out she discover
ed a little beggar boy on the front steps.
She stopped, and looked first at him and
then at her cent. Finally, with the
sweetest smile she stepped up to the for
lorn child, and, laying her hand on his
shoulder, said, in a gentle tone : " Here,
little boy, take this cent and go buy
yourself a suit of clothes and some din