Kg) s-iv ,lllV.IIHI:.li "lli:illirlllltililillllllll!'.ll:llW VOL. XII. NEW BLOOMFIELD, P-A.., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1878. NO. 6. liS'f m l. rAKVebtasss ion, I Mini I Sf9.T S- Wl - k J I I LJW IV W 1 . 1 ' , 1 1 THE TIMES. In Independent Family Newspaper, 18 PUBLISHED BVIRT TUESDAY BT F. MORTIMER & CO. suBscnirnuN r it i c e . (WITHIS THB COUNT!. One Year, tl 2. Six Months, 75 (OUT 0 THB COUNTT. iOn Year, (Postage Included) 1 50 Six Mouths, ( Postage Included) 83 Invariably In Advance I Advertising rates furnished upon appli cation. For The Bloomfleld Times. SCHOOL-GIRLS. TO MIRK LULU WALTON. American school-vrirls, I believe, have the most be wltehiiiK beauty hi the world. John Burroughs : Winter Runhhink. The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school- flrla, " the sweet seriousness of sixteen" we now hnw these forms thrill, pnrnlyze, provoke, inspire and enlarigo us. H. W. Kmkrhon ; Thk Conuuct OF Life. There are no prettier creatures Upon the face of earth, In figure or In features , Than school-girls full of mirth. Tor Innocence and joyance What can with them compare, So free from fierce annoyance, And books their only care ? They are like all things pleasing Like singing, bright-winged birds, Our souls with beauty seizing, And melody of words. They are like budding roses, Which purest dews begem, And every day discloses Some sweet, new charm In them. They are like young fruits growing, With cheeks of crimson dyes ; Their lips like cherries glowing i Like fountains clear their eyes. Like that of brooks their laughter, Now rippling low, now loud : Of what may hap hereafter No thoughts their spirits cloud. O happy, happy mortals, Hearts unbeguiled and true, As look ye through life's portals, What flattering scenes ye view 1 With no dark clouds behind you, With sunshine bright before, Vnbllghted flowers still find you Along life's smiling shore. In you no frosty chill is, But all is warm with love, And ye bear yet the lilies Ye brought from fields above. Your soft cheeks' winsome roses Wear not the hint of shame ; Heaven's light there still reposes, And ye are void of blame. 0 lovely, little ladies, What magic ye possess ! n shrouded in what shade is The spot yo fail to bless ! With your enchanting presence, And your ethereal bloom, And Joy, which is Joy's essence, The darkest ye illume. 1 love you how I love you, Ye school-girls one and all I Fair be the heavens above you Thence blessings on you fall ! My love is as a brother's May all, I fondly pray, Be happy wives and mothers, . When school-days pass away ! Georgetown, D. C, W. L. Biiobuakbb. A FEMALE DETECTIVE. THE late Captain John S. Young, for many years the head of the detec tive police force of New York, was one afternoon walking up Broadway with the writer of this article. A fashionable young lady, in all the glory of street toilet passed along, and while passing, eyed keenly, in the usual woman's way, another lady going in the opposite direction. Young looked at the woman a minute, and then said emphat ically : " I would give five years of my life if I could tell all about a thief as quickly and as truthfully as a woman can tell about another woman." There was a great deal of force about Young's remark. Women have an in stinct about womanly things, which is finer, more subtile, and generally more sure than man's mere reason., They know each other ; there is no glower About their relations; they discount each other ; they can probe all the shams And subterfuges to which they resort ; and were all criminals female, and did all crime concern only sentimental mat ters, would make by far the best detec tives In the world ; in fact, they would be the only detectives, worth calling so. But instinct, though perfect Id its sphere; Is limited in its range; all the crime is not committed by females, nor is it by any means always connected with sentimental consideration ; conse quently female detectives, though capi tal in their line, have but a compara tively limited field. Still this field Is really pretty wide, and is sufficiently pe culiar and characteristic to require and merit a survey. Of late years women have been em ployed to watch women in various tem ples of trade resorted to by females. In addition to the regular male detective, and the floor walkers, and the clerks, each of whom acts as amateur detec tive, our large dry-goods stores employ women whose special province is to keep their eyes upon the patrons of the place. A large eastside dry-goods pal ace employs two clever women for this purpose. One of these has been In the service of the firm for six years, and calculates that she has saved the establishment, in that time, at least twenty times her sal ary of fifteen dollars a week. Thesmart little creature generally dresses quite elegantly, and pretends to be a customer herself of the house. She mingles free ly with the crowds, sees everything and everybody, and gives instant notice of any attempt at shoplifting or pur loining. She also acts as searcher of suspected parties, and is very thorough in her personal examination of such individ uals. A woman who has Becreted any thing about her belonging to the estab lishment runs a better chance of being struck by lightning in January than of escaping detection under examination. Our large hotels also employ female detectives, at least some do so, who are expected to determine upon the charac ter, especially the moral character of certain guests of the house. Morality, social morality, pays just now, and in various delicate matters appertaining to morals, the services of a female detec tive are indispensable; no man, how ever clever could exactly supply their place. One of our leading Broadway hotels has a very clever woman, who though ranked as an assistant housekeeper, is really a first-class detective. This woman is rather pretty and quite lady like, and passes with strangers as one of the guests of the hotel at which she is em ployed. She talks well and often wins the confidence of the very party whom she suspects and watches. She main tains a system of constant espionage upon doubtful people, and thereby pre vents the culmination of many a scheme of humbug and imposture. Not long ago a woman came and took a suit of apartmeuts at this hotel where this detective was employed. The stran ger was very showy yet withal very solid-looking, and brought with her refer ences and all the credentials of respecta bility. The proprietors of the hotel received her with empressmenl, but the famale detective warned them against receiving her. When asked for the reason of the warning she could not give any justifia ble ground, but persisted in it neverthe less ; the stranger made herself quite popular at the hotel, paid her bills reg larly and gained, through the endorse ment of the proprietor of the house.the acquaintance of many of the regular boarders. All went smoothly, but the female de tective still persisted in her prognostica tions of evil, though these latter had be come to be universally regarded as mere prejudice and obstinacy unwillingness to confess one's self to be mistaken. But one day the hotel world was sur prised by the leaking out of an attempt at blackmail by the distinguished stran ger, the victim to which was no less a personage than one of one of the owners of the very hotel at which she had been entertained in style. Of course, this development, while it chagrined the hotel men, has not been altogether .unwelcome to the hotel female detective, who bag since been more in demand than ever. . Female detectives have for some years been employed In the custom house, but these are rather more " searchers" than detectives. They are not supposed to ferret out anything for themselves, but only to inspect the persons and toilets of such women as may be suspected of carrying and concenllng about thein contraband goods. Perhaps .the most peculiar line in which female detectives are to any ex tent employed is that of divorce detec tiveswomen who hunt up evidence In divorce cases, for or against certain spec ified persons. The divorce detective of the present day is generally a woman, and very often an attractive woman to boot. One of the most notorious female de tectives of the day was one of the most beautiful women In New York, a tall, stately, graceful blonde, without any verbal exaggeration, a "queenly crea ture. She was the wife of a lawyer who had aii extensive practice in divorce cases, and aided her husband very mate rially In his peculiar line of business. The majority of divorce detectives are as unscrupulous as they are undoubted ly clever. They hesitate at nothing to procure the necessary evidence against or for the party. They will manufac ture it rather than miss it, and incite to the very crime which tbey were paid to detect. Of course they are not faithful to their trust. How can a woman who would undertake such a role as this bo faithful to anything or anybody save her own interest 'i A smart, A No. 1, female di vorce detective who recently figured in a famous divorce case, acted both for the man and his wife. To the husband she reported the piccadilloes of his wife, to the lady she narrated the iniquities of the husband. On two separate occasions she entrapped the husband in the inter est of the woman, and so to make mat ters even she subsequently entrapped the woman in the interests of the man ; she even went so far in one episode of the case to personate one of the parties in the suit, and then to give evidence about herself in her assumed charac ter. True, these little tricks were finally exposed through the ingenuity of a detective employed by the husband, but not until a vast deal of unnecessary mischief had been done, and not until the divorce detective herself had secured nearly $2,000 for her services from the two equally betrayed employers. Surely the female detective has it in her power to become an institu tion. How a Thief was Trapped. rpHE Springville (N. Y.) Journal Bays : 1 Charles Thill is not a lank, wild eyed and long-haired character like the trapper of the plains, but a muscular Dutchman, with a level head on his Teutonic shoulders. He keeps hotel and fills the position of constable in his town. On Sunday last a citizen of this place. visited New Oregon and hitched his horse in Thill's shed. The guest left a brand new whip in the buggy, and that whip looked very tempting to a young man who chanced to gaze upon it, and the consequence was that when the Springville man got ready to come home the whip was gone. Thill was mortified, as all good land lords should be, at such an occurrence, and began a search of the premises, thinking that the thief must have se creted the article to carry away under cover of darkness. The shed connects the hotel with the barn, and beneath the manger .which ex tends the length of the shed, a loose stone was found in the wall of the sta ble. On removing the stone the whip was drawn from the hole. To recover the whip would be triumph enough for most men, but our host wasn't satisfied He must bring the culprit to justice. Accordingly he resolved to watch the spot till the thief came back after his booty. This would be an arduous task if the fellow should stay away a week. Thill ruminated. Borrowing a large double-spring rat-trap from a neighbor. he planted it close inside the hole where the whip had been secreted, anehoring it firmly by a heavy chain to a joist,and then awaited developments. No one came to claim the prize Bun day night. Monday passed away with out a visitant to the place of secretion. Night came on, and a young man of the place spent the evening at the hotel. When he abade adieu to the host it was past ten o'clock, and the landlord pre pared to retire for the evening, forget ting all about the transaction of the day before. lie had hardly disrobed himself, how ever, when a cry of help greeted his car, and the cry came from the shed. Others heard the alarm, and long before the floor could be taken up to loose the trap quite a crowd had congregated to wit ness the young man's humiliation. Sprawled out under the manger, with one arm through the hole in the wall and one finger In the merciless Jaws of the trap, he presented a picture of dire distress. Could he have got hla head through the hole and gnawed that fin ger oft' it would have given him pleas ure to have done so ; but he didn't hap pen to be a rat, and that thing was an imposibility ; so, humiliating as it was, he had to cry out to the landlord for de liverance and in calling the landlord he called the constable also. The young man isof good family and had hitherto borne a good name. An Evening Call. The following from the Detroit Free rrexs having several amusing and truth ful hits at society, we give our readers the benefit of it on the local side of the house; "Gem'len," said Brother Gardi ner, as he rose up and placed his hand on a copy of "The Great Orators of Madagascar" "gem'len, de ole woman war out to deliber de washln' de odder night, and I drapped over to see de Wid- der Johnsing fur a few minits. I sat down on de frunt steps in de deepuln' twilight, an' while de skeeters sailed aroun' frew tne sleepy atmosphere,! axed de wldder'why it was dat de man who does de moas'blowln' about hard times hez de leas' to lose by a panic; an' she showed de gold fillin' In her teef ez she sweetly replied : "Misscr Gardner, dar will be tatur bugs Jes' ez long ez dar am taturs.' "De sof ' clouds sailed across de azure surface of de bewtlful moon, an' I axed de wldder why de church preachers stood up in delr pulpits an' wept ober de heathen in China, but for got to even heave a sigh ez dey passed base ball, dog fights, jumpla' matches, an' nayborhood rows on deir way home; an' de widder she shined up her brass rings wld her apron an' replied: "Mis ser Gardner, all butchers may pe honest, but all butchers scales may not weigh sixteen ounces to de poun. It am pow erful easy fur us to fin' fault wld odder people's noses, an' Jes' like us to forglt dat de ends of our own turn up.' "I sat dar in de increasin' daakness, feelin' a goneness for de want ob a sweet turnip to eat, an' I axed de widder why de man who doan' mean to squar' up wid his grocer am jes' de chap who finds fault wid de size of a quart measure, an' she dodged a pinch-beetle an' replied : "Aiisser uardner, (lis woruld am. so constltooted dat de dog which barks de loudest gits de moas' bones. Money am powerful good, ole man, but de nex' bes fing to it am a good pa'r o'lungs an' plenty of surface between de eye an' de chin I' "Gem'len, ez soon ez de ice goes outen de river, an' I git a little time to fink, I'ze gwlne to dwell on such fots ez de above an figger up conclushuns wid a soft pencil." How the Editor Got His Pants. A good story is told us of an editor in a neighboring county, who had made a trade with a tailor by which he was to receive a pair of pantaloons. Months passed by and the pants were not ready, when one day the tailor had a law suit in which a lawyer friend of the editor's, now upon the bench, was en. gaged. To him the editor told his grievance, adding : " Now, if you can devise some way to get those pantaloons for me, I shall be everlastingly obliged." . , The lawyer promised to think of the matter, and they walked into the' court room. At the lawsuit, Just as the tailor was in the midst of of his testimony, be was thunder-struck by au Inquiry from the lawyer : . Ain't you making a pair of pants for Editor W. V" " Yes," was the slow and muttering reply. " When will they be done?" " Next Friday," answered the tailor. " And delivered to him "" " Yes." " That's all on that point," quietly re marked the lawyer. As soon as the the tailor stepped off the witness stand he was confronted by the editor: " Now I've got you, you old scoun drel. You swore you'd have those pants made and delivered next Friday, and you'd better do it. If you don't I'll have you arrested for perjury and sent to Allegheny, as sure as you're a living man." It is hardly necessary to add that the editor received his pants in good order at the exact time they were promised. A Dog's Fidelity. A few days since a little child only two years of age, daughter of Mr. For ry, who resides a short distance from Hanover, York county, strayed away from its home accompanied by a large and very intelligent Newfoundland dog, which is its constant companion. It wandered to the railroad and there sat down on the track just a few moments before a train came thundering along.. In the meantime the dog seemed to un derstand its danger, went and sat down beside it and between the child and the train. The engineer seeing the dog but not the child, which was on the other side, blew the whistle and tried in every way to scare the dog. The dog refused to stir, and thinking it Btrange the fireman looked again, saw the child, and as it was too late to stop ran out on the cow catcher to catch the little one, when just as the train touched the dog, the child got off the track ; then, and not until then did the dog leave his post, and barking with delight, and showing every manifestation of joy followed its baby mistress. Was it not something beyond Instinct that caused this dumb animal to interpose between the child and harm V m A Homesick Pig. One of the most remarkable cases of instinct we ever heard of came under our personal observation a few days ago. Mr. Deveaux, the County Jailer, was presented with a small pig by a friend living about four miles from town, and it was tied by him in the Court-house yard. The pig was not over four weeks old and was brought the whole distance in a sack. On Friday morning last Mr. Deveaux untied it and did not notice it particularly. In the evening he noticed that it had strayed oft. On Saturday morning bis friend informed that the pig had returned to his farm and was with its mother, it having succeeded in making its way from town to the place of its nativity. The journey was the more remarkable, as the way to be traversed was first across Briton's Bay, which is half a mile wide, and thence through the enclosure of three farms. The pig was seen by some colored men while crossing the bay, who tried to in tercept it,but it eluded them and escaped to the cornfield in thedlrection of home. St. Mary's (Md.) Beacon. Effects of Emancipation. Revisiting the scenes of his war ex perience, Col. HIgglnson finds a marked improvement in the social and physical condition of the blacks. The negroes sleep in beds where formerly they slept on the floor. The cabins, in old time, had no tables, and families rarely ate to gether, but now they generally have family meals. Pictures from illustrated papers adorn the walls, and the chil dren's school books are seen on the shelf. Col. Higginson met but one of his blaok command who complained of poverty, and he earned good wages, but having no wife or children to support,was given to whisky. Most of bis old soldiers bad a comfortable homestead, with from five to two hundred aores of land. Many were highly prosperous. O If you wish to preserve oontlnual harmony, learn that the great secret lies in being sometimes blind to things you da not care to see and deaf to things you do not care to bear.
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