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NEW BLOOMFIELD, P-A.., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1878.
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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.