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THE TIMES, NEW BLOOMFIELD, PA. JULY 22, 1879.
tered couutry that be lost tho trace.
There whs a river, and ou this side about
a tulle from the river was a cabin, and
the woman said that a covered wagon
patted by about that time of the year,
with a man dressed In a blue jeam suit,
with bright buttons, walking behind the
wagon, and a dark-looking man who
drove the ponies.
" Then a man about half a mile across
the river told of seeing a covered wagon
pass very early In the morning with
only one man In It, that was all he saw,
but there might have been more.
" The officer followed another hundred
miles, but could And no one that ever
saw a man dressed In blue jeans after he
crossed the river.
" But he passed on to the small town
where Williams told his goods, and
found he had a permanent store there,
and had had for four years ; It was In
charge of a clerk, who stated he had
been In Williams employ four years ;
that he knew nothing of his movements
when not there; that he remembered
the goods being brought, but there was
an extra trunk of clothing, which was
sold ; that is, a portion of them was
sold ; Williams kept out the best white
shirts and a pair of fine boots ; he said
that the clothing had recently been
given him by a deceased friend.
" The detective turned and went back
to where Harry was last seen, and, get-
ting In the few neighbors, he told them
his mission, and asked their aid in un-
. earthing Harry Colby : he had disap
peared near that place and was con vine-
d that lie had been murdered by Wil
liams, although Williams bore a good
name wherever he had been known ;
but still those letters that had been sent
backward and forward looked mighty
suspicious.
" Bo the officer, with these men's help,
commenced searching for indications of
a grave, and at last, about half a mile
from the road, in as lonely a spot as
could be found, the ground was Bunken
1u ; it was a round Indenture, not ob
long like a grave, so they commenced
digging, and it was not long before a
' bright button was exposed.and very gen
Uly the dirt was removed, and there they
tfound all that was left of Harry Colby.
He was identified by his blue suit, which
was remarkably well preserved, and by
a peculiar tooth.
"I Bhall always believe the guiding
hand of Providence led poor Harry to
have that blue suit made up for that
journey , for he could not bear the thought
of wearing it before, so that his disap
pearance might be traced and brought to
light; for bo many were immigrating
about that time, and all so much alike,
that he would have never been remem
bered had not the uncommon blue jeans,
with its bright buttons, been noticed and
commented on and remembered.
"I shall never forget that coming
home, for we were, all hoping against
hope that he might be somewhere ; and
then it was so hard to think that Wil
Hams would make away with him.
True, he was under arrest for forgery,
and those letters coming from Missouri
were very suspicious ; but he had always
borne such a good name, was raised
among us, belonged to the church and
all that ; so we could not bring ourselves
to believe he could murder the son of the
man who had done so much for him, for
he knew how very much Harry was
loved and idolized at home. Beside, he
had come back and married his only sis
ter. Why, sir, it was unbelievable that
a man could be so wicked.
" lsut when all tnat was left of poor
Harry had been brought home, and the
bullet found in bis side, then we knew
Williams had done it had coolly and
deliberately planned and executed the
awful deed for the paltry sum invested
in those goods and because he always
hated Harry ; he was jealous of the love
bestowed on him by his parents and
Cora, and, beside, if Harry was . out of
the way, he and Cora would inherit all
of Mr. Colby's vast wealth.
" Well, it is useless he go Into details
of the trial ; he was convicted and sen
tenced to be hung. After he was sen
tenced he confessed that he had planned
the murder before starting ; that he car
ried the spade all the way to dig his grave
or the hole be was found in; that the
morning the deed was done Harry was
preparing breakfast, when he took up
.the spade and said he would hunt a cer
tain kind of root. In a few minutes he
shouted for Harry to come in he be
lieved he had discovered a gold mine
Harry, all unsuspicious, leaned over the
hole that Williams had made, searching
for signs of the bright metal, when
Williams shot him through the side ; he
aimed at his heart, but the bullet glanc
ed oil. He lost words were :
" Oh, John, I know you did not do it
intentionally I Tell mother I am not
afraid to die.'
' Poor fellow J He had no idea he had
been coolly and foully murdered by one
who should have been a protector and
friend. . , '
" Willlums had intended to get the old
man, with his wife, started on the road
to Missouri, and there murder them.
Why, sir, he confessed he had the very
place picked out. Oh, there never was a
greater villain I If it had not been for the
five thousand in the bank that he ob
tained by forgery, neither of the old
couple would be alive to-day. He never
dreamed that Mr. Colby would find out
the money had been drawn out of the
bank.
" The day he was hung he dressed
himself in a nice suit of black cloth and
walked out to the gallows as coolly,
smoking a cigar, as if he was taking a
walk. He was possessed of considerable
wealth, which he willed to his sister.
Cora had no children and had her name
changed to Colby. 8he is an angel, and
tries ever to cheer and comfort her poor
stricken mother."
A Coin that will Grow.
PETEU'B mother died. After that he
waB sent to his grandmother's for
he had a quarrelsome,fretful tern per, and
his aunt could not manage him with the
other children. His grandmother dealt
kindly and patiently with him, and
helped him to improve.
Peter now had a new mother, and
his father had sent for him to come
home, but he did not want to go. He
felt sure he would not like his new
mother, and that Bhe would not like
him.
" That depends upon yourself, reter,"
said grandmother. " Carry love and
kindness in your pocket and you'll find
no difficulty."
That idea Btruck the boy favorably.
He wished he could, he said.
" And the best of it is," said grand
mother, " if you once begin paying it
out, your pockets will never be empty,
for you'll be paid in your own coin. Be
kind and you will be treated kindly-
love and you'll be loved."
" I wish I could," said Peter.
And all the way home he more or less
thought of it. I do not know about his
welcome home, or what hla father or
new mother said to him. The next
morning he rose early, as he was used to
at his grandmother's, and came down
stairs, where everything being new, he
felt very strange and lonely.
"I know I shan't be contented here,"
he said to himself ; " I know I shan't ;
I'm afraid there's not a bit of love in
my pocket."
However, in a little while his new
mother came down, when Peter came
up to her and said :
" Mother, what can I do to help
youV"
" My dear boy," said she, kissing him
on the forehead, " how thoughtful you
are. I thank you for your kind offer,
and what can I do to help you ; for I
am afraid you will be lonely here at
first.comlng from your dear,good grand
mother?" What a kiss was that! It made him
so happy.
" That's paying me in moie than my
own coin," thought Peter.
Then he knew he should love his new
mother ,and from that good hour Peter's
pocket began to fill with the beautiful,
bright coin of klndnegs, which is the
best "small change" in the world. Keep
your pockets full of it, and you will
never be in want.
A Remarkable Love Story.
THE Port Jervis " Union" tells this
story : A little more than four years
ago a gentleman of this village, then
about twenty-three years of age, fell in
love with a young lady, aged about
nineteen, also of Port Jervis. She re
turned his affection, and for a time all
went along Bmoothly. The lady was
the daughter of pious parents, and al
though she was not connected with any
church, was a firm believer in their
tenets, and looked with feelings akin
to horror on anything approaching
skepticism or doubt. But the time came
when she learned that her lover was
deist ; that he disbelieved in a revealed
religion, had no veneration for the Bible
and took no interest In churches, sel
dom or never attending them save as her
escort.
She was deeply pained by the revela.
tlon . She' sent for her lover and endeav
ored to convince him of his error; but
he was not satisfied with her arguments
and refused to accede to a surrender of
his principles. The more the lady pon
dered, the more plain her duty seemed to
her, and ehe finally decided to renounce
her love.
She accordingly wrote him a long and
tear-stalued letter bidding him good-bye
forever.
The gentleman again and again urged
her to reconsider her determination, but
she was obdurate, and a separation took
place. He was deeply grieved, hut al
though he was, as he thought, badly
used, felt that she had acted up to what
her convictions of right demanded. He
could not easily divest himself of his
love, and after a few months he left the
village and engaged in business else
where.
The lady mourned, but tried to satisfy
herself that she had acted correctly.
Two years made her riiore liberal than
she had been, and she began to study on
the subject. The more she read the
more Bhe distrusted her former deolslon,
and Bhe finally became quite as liberal
as her lover she had discarded.
Whether the loglo of the books Bhe
read or the promptings of the old love
had most to do with the change it
would be hard to tell.
The lover, too, had undergone a
change. The fact that his creed had
cost him his sweetheart annoyed him,
and, struggle as he would, he could not
banish her from his memory.
Last winter a revival of religion took
place In the city in which he was en
gaged in business. At the solicitation
of a friend he was induced to attend.
As in the other case, it would be hard to
tell whether the change . was brought
about by the arguments of the preacher,
by the excitement which prevailed, or
by the memory of his old love. Suffice
It to say that he united with the church
and in a short time became a zealous
member.
He thought over the action of his
former sweetheart in discarding him for
his Infidelity ,and wrote her a brief note,
asking the privilege of once more call-
ng on her.
Bhe responded in the affirmative. The
gentleman came, and when she timidly
apologized for her previous dismissal of
him, he, to her surprise, defended her
conduct, said she had been In the right,
and in her place he would to-day do the
same. Her heart sank at these words.
She confessed the great change in her
sentiments. From being a firm believer
n the Bible, she had discarded it, and
with it her belief In any revealed relig
ion. It was now the gentleman's turn
to be horrified. He pleaded with her,
urged everything he could think of to
induce her to change her mind. She
could not, and told him so. He felt that
he must not be " unequally yoked with
an unbeliever," and, taking counsel of
his religion, gave her up .
Married by Telegraph.
'HE Rev. C. S. Colt, pastor of the
Centenary Methodist Episcopal
church, on Belleville avenue, Newark,
recently performed a novel marriage
ceremony in the main Newark office of
the Western Union telegraph company.
He said that Miss Margaret Wright, of
Albany , N. Y., wfco was on a visit to
friends in Newark,, requested him to
marry her by telegraph to a gentleman
in San Francisco. He told Miss Wright
that such a marriage would norbe legal
She then said that she was engaged to
Dr. F. M. Shaw, of Los Angelos, who
had promised to come east for her. He
had written, however, that owing to a
rush of business he could not journey
east at the time agreed upon. He urged
her to join him in San Francisco, where
they would be married. She replied
tnat sue wan tea more than a mere
promise to marry before she would take
such a long journey. Dr. Shaw then
proposed that they should be married by
telegraph, with witness at the San
Francisco and Newark offices, and she
accepted the proposal.
The Rev. Mr. Colt, after much urging,
consented to perform an informal mar
riage ceremony, with the understanding
that Miss Wright and Dr. Shaw should
be married afterward by a clergyman in
California.
He forwarded a number of questions
to Dr. Shaw, who answered that he was
fifty-one years old, did not have a wife
living, and that no legal objections to
the proposed marriage existed. The
Bev. Mr. Coit refused to give Miss
Wright a marriage certificate, the under
standing being that she would get one
from the minister in California.
At nine o'clock one evening the opera
tor in the Western Union office at
Market and Broad Btreets, Newark, was
surprised by the appearance of the Bev
Mr. Coit and a fashionable party of
ladies and gentlemen In the office. Miss
Wright, who has dark chestnut hair,
brown eyes, and an olive complexion,
wore a dark silk dress, with white boh.
net and lilies of the valley. She carried
in her right hand a small bouquet of
white flowers. She blushed a deep
crimson and laughed nervously when
the Bev. Mr. Colt said to the
operator that she wished to be married
by telegraph. By request of the Rev.
Mr. Coit, the operator telegraphed to
Dr. Shaw, who was awaiting with his
friends in the San Francisco office, the
question :
" Are you ready V"
in a lew minutes tne answer was
flashed back : " l es, and have been for
an hour."
The Rev. Mr, Colt then read the ques
tion, which the operator sent to Dr,
Shaw:
" Do you take Margaret Wright for
your lawful wife, and promise to be
faithful to her until separated by
death V"
There was considerable delay at the
Ban Francisco office, and while waiting
for an answer the bride chatted pleas
antly with her friends, one of whom
said: " Wouldn't it be a Joke, Maggie,
if the doctor said no V" Thebrlde Join
ed in the laughter that followed. Mean
while Dr. Shaw telegraphed, " I do,
and pledge my love and protection."
lie also sent on the name of a friend, a
Mr. Shere, as his witness In San Fran
cisco. Mr. Gibson, of Newark, was the
witness for Miss Wright.
.
a jew days alter the ceremony was
performed the bride started for Califor
nia to Join her husband. She is 27
years old, Intelligent and accomplished.
All Aqalnst Him.
THERE were two men (about 1838)
Stlckpenny & Whewell, who owned
a saw mill near Old Town, Maine, in
common. The arrangement under
which the mill was operated was that
each one had the mill all to himself
during the alternate weeks. Stick
penny was a mean, rusty old chap.
Whewell was a shrewd, Investigating
young man. The ' mill was run by a
crude, rougli kind of an undershot
wheel that gave very little power for the
amount of water used, so that the water
was often short. Whewell wanted to
put in a new iron spiral vent wheel then
Just coming out, but Stlckpenny would
have nothing to do with it. He wasn't
going to lay out money for any " such
Job as that." Finally, Whewell said he
would pay all the bills, to which Stick-
penny at last agreed, " but provided you
nut the wheel ill in your week." So the
new wheel was put in, and Whewell,
being of a mechanical turn of mind,
experimented with it, and soon found
that by plugging up some of the orifices
the saw went through the log faster
than when they were all open. So he
plugged tbem up during his week, and
alwavs nulled the nlucs all out airain for
Stlckpenny to operate with. Soon it
began to be noticed that somehow or
other Whewell always managed to saw
a couple of thousand feet mpre of lumber
in his week than everStickpenny could,
no matter how the pond was. Finally,
Stlckpenny went down to. see Whewell
about it.
Says he: "Whewell, how is it that
you alway manage to Baw more lumber
in a given time than I can when my
turn comes round?" Says Whewell
Don't you know how that is ? Waal,
I'll tell you. It's because you ain't been
treatin' of me fairly on this matter. It's
agin nature. You can't expect the mill
to saw as well for you as it does for tbem as
do the square thing all around." Stick-
penny wouldn't believe that and went
away. But still the mill went on turn
lng out regularly more lumber for Whe
well than Stlckpenny managed to get
out of it ; bo finally the latter came
around and said : " What's your bill ?
I'll pay my share." He paid it, and
thereafter Stlckpenny managed to saw
Jnst as lively as Whewell did. "Well,"
said the old fellow, " I always knew
that the folks around here were all ag'in
me, but I never thought the Almighty
was;" and he died without finding out
the explanation of it all.
Crime is Allegheny.
This seems to he an era of crime in
Allegheny county, and there is scarcely
a day that the papers do not contain
some fresh criminal sensation. Joseph
Aikens and wife have lived for many
years in Unity township,about Ave miles
from Oreensburg, where they cultivated
a good-sized farm. About a year ago
Aikens made up his mind to go to Ire
land, and with this purpose in view had
the title-deed to his farm made over to
his wife. Later, when he changed his
mind and determined to stay at home,
Mrs. Aikens refused to give up the title-
deed, and this, so far as the neighbors
know, was the beginning of a family
dispute, which has since been embittered
by Aikens' drinking habits. The quar
rel culminated recently. A young
man met Aikens on the road with a
shot gun in his hand. Aikens told him
that he had Just shot his wife, and both
returned to the old farmer's bouse. Mi a.
Aikens was found lying in the front
doorway quite dead,and while the young
man was looking at the terrible sight
the aged murderer killed himself with
the same gun.
Short Dresses for Women.
A lady Just returned from a protracted
stay in Paris says : " I was thoroughly
astonished, in visiting Worth's, to find
all the newest costumes made short. In
fact, no fabrio was too costly to cut up
in dresses of walking length. Only
dinner costumes and ball dresses were
made long." House dresses, carriage
dresses, promenade dresses, are all made
of one length. A Parisian lady does not
pretend to be seen on the street holding
up her.skirts.
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No man can do a good Job of work,
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and none shojr'5 make the attempt in
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