THE TIMES NEW BLOOM Fl ELI), PA.. AUGUST 5, 1870.
eight o'clock that evening, he found
Miss Itannnh't missive on his utility
table, He rend it through, with dismay
ncd astonishment.
" Poor little creature 1" he exclaimed,
" who could have been capable of no
cruelly deceiving her V I did not think
she had an enemy, her life la no blnme
lesH and noble. Whnt Bhall I tell her V
How (hull I explain matters to her )"'
He read the letter over again, and was
Impressed by the modesty and gentle
ness which pervaded It.
Walking up and down the room, per
plexed at what had recently occurred,
ud vexed at being In such a false posi
tion, Dr. Astley suddenly thought of
Uertrude. This was the night he had
set for calling on her, and deciding his
fate, lie had little doubt that her reply
would be a favorable one, and yet here
he stood as good as engnged to poor lit
tle Miss Hannah of Rose Cottage.
ife drew his handkerchief from his
r-pocket ; and, as he did bo, a piece of
crumpled paper fell to the floor. Think
ing it miirht he of Importance, he picked
It up and opened it.
As he read it, his face grew very grave
and sad, and his lips were sternly com.
wssed. For an Instant he could not
remember where or how It had come Into
his possession ; and then he recollected
the sudden gust of wind thot had
hurled It Into his face the night be
fore. Vus It fate, I wonder, which made
the Wind blow from the open window
of Ck-rtrude's bedroom this scribbled
sheet, and fling It into the doctor's, face V
For on the paper was a rough draft of
' the love-letter Miss Hannah hud receiv
ed, and on the reverse side, scribbled
with many qulrls aud flourishes, the
names of the two young girls who hud
planned to ' mortify the little old
maid.
" And to think, but for this crumpled
piece of paper, and what It contains, that
I might have married that girl !" mused
the doctor. " The whole plot is clear to
me now; and, instead of loving Ger
trude horrlmer, I thoroughly despise
.her. How could she stoop to this V"
Then he threw himself into an easy
chair, und abandoned himself to
thought.
The result was, that he rose to his
feet an hour later, with a smile on his
face, donned hla overcoat and hat, aud
fleft the house, going in the direction of
Mips Hannah's cottage.
Gertrude saw him from her window,
where she was keeping watch ; but she
did not know his thoughts, or she would
not have laughed and clapped her hands
so gleefully.
11 Toor little thing 1" thought the doc
tor, as he saw the light in Miss Han
nah's parlor window. "She Is expect
ing me, of course. Well, her tender,
generous heart shall not sutler through
me, and I shall do all I can to make her
happy."
Miss Hannah opened the door for
.him, and then shrank timidly back;
but he put both his strong arms around
her, and drew her to his breast.
44 My arms are your shield, and my
breast is your resting-place forever, dear
Hannah," he murmured.
44 O, Leonard 1" she replied, 44 If I can
only make you happy. But I am so
old and so faded "
44 You are mine now, and I won't al
low my property to be depreciated," was
the doctor's answer.
The surprise and chagrin of Gertrude
and Nettie can well be imagined ; but
they had only themselves to thank for
the strange result of their heartless, un
maidenly, wicked hoax, that might
have resulted in driving so sensitive a
soul to lasting shame or even death
itself.
They never learned from Dr. Astley
or his wife that it was surmised who had
written Miss Hannah's love-letter; for
the doctor never spoke to either of the
girls again, but passed them with only
h cold and formal bow ; while his wife
never knew, to the day of her death,
that her love-letter had not been a gen
uine one. That cruel knowledge was
kept from her by her husband; for
Dr. Astley had learned to love his wife
most tenderly and truly, and under his
care and kindness she grew rosy and
bright again as in her youthful days.
8he no longer denied herself nourishing
food aud beautiful clothes, for she was
surrounded by peace and plenty.
As for the doctor's handsome house,
it became a different place. Mrs. Beck's
reign was over; aud, under the super
vision of a ruistie.-a who studied the
comfort of all, the servants gave no
trouble whatever and Dr. Astley often
mentally blessed the day on which
Miss Hannah received her bogus love-letter.
A Cheerful Wife.
BETTER than gold to a man is a
cheerful wife. But he must do his
part toward making her cheerful. It is
easy enough for a man to marry a hap.
py woman. But the bride expectant,
when she thought how happy she would
be, never contemplated the picture of a
husband coming home cross as a bear
and going to bed without speaking to
her ; she had never thought of the long
evenings when he wouldn't come home
at nil, or bringing some one home to
dinner without warning or preparation j
of his awful profanity over so trifling &
matter as the gas bill.
Bhehad no Idea, In fact that there
could be anything but happiness In
married life, and she had determined to
be hnppy and to distribute her happiness
among those, about her.
It Is not often her fun It is she doesn't
succeed. Men, as a rule, do not exert
themselves to secure their wives' happl.
ncss.
They know that H requires a constant
and a great effort to possess property and
be secure In its value in the midst of
constant commercial changes.
The cheerfulness, the happy, hopeful
character which every woman displays
at the beginning of marriage U not so
easily lost as a fortune; It requires but a
small Bhnre of the attention, and yet so
often does not get that little share.
Therefore a word to the girls In this
connection Is In order ; bewaie of a
man who doesn't know enough ubout
cheerfulness to understand Its value in
daily life. Such a man would Improve
the tlrst opportunity to grind the cheer
fulness out of his home, to frighten a
sunbeam Into a shadow, and then won
der whut Is the matter.
Buch Is no better than no husband at
all ; nnd when you want a husband go
11 nd somebody else somebody who will
give you at least some chance to be hap
py fur Into the life beyond the honey
moon. . - . .. -.
Infidelity and Crime,
THE New York 44 Evening Tost"
says: 44 We believe It to bo t,us
ceptlble of demonstration that tho lute
extraordinary Increase of crime, an
lncreaso more palpable every day crowd
ing with Its record the columns of the
public prints and sickening tho soul
with lis endless detail and novelty of
horror, Is largely due to the growth of
materialism, or what is termed Infideli
ty ; and that mainly in reaction from
the skeptical drift of the time lies the
path of the wholesome reform. The
fruit of unbelief among the upper or
wealthy classes Is sensuality. Those
classes get to worship instead of their
Maker, the pleasures of the mo
ment. They bow down to rich food
and line clothes and enervating amuse
ments. They make goddesses of wo
men who. possess mere physical beau
ty. Their hearts are set on yachts and
race-courses and theatres and operas.
What is given, in a word, to gild or
soften life, to lend grace and sparkle and
color to tho plod aud monotone of ex
istence, such persons muke its sole ob
ject and aim.
41 Thus they become of theearth, earth
ly, and all that Is spiritual and exalted
dries out of their souls. One after an
other the Commandments are broken as
they stand In the way of desire, and a
shameful ruin Is left at- last In place of
what might have been a perfect temple:
a shattered and sated voluptuary In
place of a nobly perfected human be
ing. 44 Among the poorer and less educated
ranks of society the cant and poison of
living only for the day is even more
directly disastrous. The rich can grati
fy their passions without, as a rule and
in the legal sense,' coming in conflict
with the rights of others. But the
needy, unrestrained by any fear of fu
ture account, and thinking only to eat
and drink since to-morrow they die,
drive straight on crime. That this is
no idle assertion can be abundantly
proved. A careful survey of murderers,
suicides aud other great felonies com
mitted in the chief cities of the United
States during the last ten years shows
that a heavy fraction of the perpetra
tors were atheists or free-thinkers. These
unhappy persons, persuaded that life is
the be-all and the end-all here, imagine
that in their calculations they can jump
the life to come. A collection of the
letters or other papers left by criminals
when anticipating death shows a fear
ful number of instances, some of which
many readers will recall, of absolute dis
belief in the existence of a God or in
any reckoning for wrong done in this
life to be exacted in a future one."
The Shields-Lincoln Duel
General Shields once had a difficulty
with Abraham Lincoln which resulted
in preparations for a duel. Shortly af
ter his return from the Mexlcon war, a
newspaper In Illinois, where he lived,
published an article which displeased
him very much.
He called upon the editor; said it was
offensive and insisted upon knowing
the author. -
The editor asked time to consider, and
meanwhile consulted Mr. Lincoln, in
forming him that the writer of the arti
cle was a young woman.
44 Oh, I'll settle that," said Lincoln.
44 Tell Shields I am personally responsi
ble for It."
This was enough for Shields, and he
immediately challenged Lincoln to mor
tul combat.
Broadswords were chosen as the wenp
on most likely to place them on equal
footing. The proceedings were con
ducted with great secrecy, and in order
to have the amusement to themselves a
brushwood copse was chosen for the
encounter. But friends had followed
unobserved, and came up in time to
catch the belligerents In the net of clear
ing a space for the fight by hewing
down Hie brushwood with their ewords.
The ludierousnesB of the thing was soon
made apparent, nnd the affair ended In
good humor.
A Night In a Haunted House.
A NEIGHBORING city is Just now In
the throes of a ghostly sensation. It
appears from the accounts which we re
ceive that a week or two since an adver
tisement was put in one of the papers
offering a large pleasant room for rent at
exceedingly low terms. To nil who
called to look at the room, the proprietor
enndidly explained Unit the reason It
was tenantless and was offered on such
low terms was that for about six mouths
past It had had tho reputation of bring
haunted, and no one had since been
found who would occupy It more than
one night.
Mr. Rufus Kliiloch, a young lawyer,
scolfed at the story, and runted the room
for a year. On the first night that ho
spent In it, a little before twelve o'clock
he awoke suddenly with a strong and
strange feeling that soino one was near
him. Just then his clock struck twelve,
and simultaneously with the lust stroke
u heavy body, as If from the celling, fell
with a heavy thud upon his brcuHt,oluHp
ed him tightly with a cold and clammy
pair of arms. Young Klnlocli, as booh
ho could partially recover from the para
lysis produced by the sudden surprise
and terror, began a desperate strugglo to
free himself. Over the bed they wrestled
and tumbled, whence they finally fell
to tho floor. Kinloch felt that It was
life or death with him, and he strained
every fibre In his body to shuke off his
invisible foe. He could plainly hear Us
breathings, which were regular nnd not
apparently increased by the struggle.
Its breath swept Into his face us chilly
as an air current from a mountain cave.
Its body, whlchJie could feel, was with
out a thread of clothing, was evidently
in the shape of a man's, but wus as cold
aud rigid a corpse. The only sound
which cume from it was an occasional
low, sepulchral laugh, which almost
froze Kluloch to the bone. In his wild
efforts to cast It oft Kinloch knocked a
table over. The matchbox full and
scattered Its contents over the floor.
Kinloch, with one hand, immediately
seized a mutch, but Just us he struck it,
and before it could blaze up, the thing,
with another laugh, wrenched itself
away. In an instant Kinloch had the
gas lit, but his visitor had entirely dis
appeared. The doors were all locked and
the windows all fustened, just as he bad
left them on going to bed. He examin
ed the ceiling and the walls, but could
not discover the slightest sign of Ingress
or egress. Then he looked in the glass,
saw that his hair had not turned white
and sat up with the gas burning the
rest of the night. Next day he carefully
and thoroughly examined the room,
and is prepared to sweur that no human
being can get admittance to it except
through the windows. The succeeding
night, which was that on Monday lust,
notwithstanding his experience already,
he resolved to make another attempt to
solve the mystery. Flucing his pistol, a
candle and a box of matches on a table
within reach of his bed, he turned off
the gas and lay down. Not once did he
think of sleeping. Finally the clock be
gan striking twelve. Again, as it finish
ed, the mysterious thing dropped from
above on the breast of Kinloch, and
clasped him in its embrace. Wrapping
one arm around it with a death-like
grip, with his disengaged hand Kinloch
grasped a match and struck it. The
thing, which seemed to have a horror
of light, made one violent effort to leave,
and then, as the match flared up, lay
punting, passive aud conquered. Kin
loch deliberately lit the candle, held it
over his prisoner, and saw to his amaze
ment that it was a nightmare. llovky
Mountain News.
The Story of an Invention.
Rather more than a hundred and fifty
years ago, a potter named Astbury was
making a journey on horseback from
Staffordshire to London, and while stop
ping at Dunstable he had occasion to
ask aid for a weakness in the eyes of his
horse. Having made known his wants
to the hostler of the inn at which he
was staying, the latter undertook the
asked-for assistance, and this he did by
taking a piece of flint, calcining, or
burning it to powder in the Are, and
blowing some into the horse's eyes. It
is said that the change produced in the
flint by burning, from a black stone to a
white powder, at once struck the potter
with a brilliant idea. 44 Would it be
possible to produce white flint ware
harder and more durable than white
ware made entirely of clay? The idea1
appears no sooner conceived than it was
carried out. Collecting some flints from
the neighborhood of Dunstable, Ast
bury took them with him to Stafford
shire, and the result was thoroughly
satisfactory, and Indeed more than rea
llzed his expeetatloiiH, for powder of
calcined flint, mixed with pipe clay,
was found to produce a most excellent
ware. Thus a new branch of the art of
pottery was at once established and took
deep root.
Good Breeding.
ONE of tho sure tests of good breeding
Is a thoughtful regard to the conve
nlence of pthers In a crowd. An lllbred
man or woman will stop in a church
alBte to tulle to a neighbor, at the close
of the service, without stepping aside to
allow those who are behind to pass on
unhindered. Aud the same fault will
be shown in blocking the passage-way '
of a railroad car, while gathering up
luggage from the seat, on arriving at a
Btatlon ; or in standing in the door-way
of a public hall or pluoe of business; or
in taking more than one's share in a
street-car, or on the sidewalk, or at a !
street crossing, or In an exhibition hall,
or at a ticket ofTlcc. A person of true
refinement and of really good breeding'
will have others In mind while with
others. The average refinement In any
crowd or gathering of people Is plululy
marked by the ease with which all get
along together. Twenty persons of
good breeding can find comfortable
sitting or standing room in a car, or
hull, or street, and be good-natured all
the time, when ten ill-bred persons
would be jostling euch other ill-naturedly.
And this is more than a matter of
good breeding. It Involves a regard for
the rlglits as well as the comfort of
others. It Is selfishness which makes
one willing to block a passage-way for
olio's own convenience, when others
want to move on. It is dishonesty which
leads one to take more than hl or her
share of time or space, while others are
waiting for their turn, or are waiting
their place. Whoever would be counted
well-bred or refined ought to have this
truth always in mind ; bo ought all
those Who would be, and do right.
Children ought to be trained to a proper
course in this regard. They and their
parents ought to learn to keep out of
other people's way, when other people
are entitled to the way.
A Lump of Soft Coal.
For years no one had supposed that a
lump of soft coul, dug from the its
mine or bed in the earth, possessed any
other purpose than that of fuel. It was
next found that it would afford a gas
that was combustible. Chemical analy
ses proved It to be made of hydrogen.
In process of time, mechanical and
chemical Ingenuity devised a mode of
manufacturing this gas and applying it
to the lighting of buildings and cities
on a large scale. . In doing this other
products of distillation were developed
until, step by step, the following ingre
dients are extracted from it :
An excellent oil to supply light
houses, equal to sperm oil, at lower
cost. Benzole, a light sort of etheral fluid
which evaporates easily, and, combined
with vapor of moist air, is used for the
purpose of portable gas lamps, bo called,
Naptha, a heavy fluid, useful to dissolve
gutta-percha and india-rubber ; an excel
lent oil for lubricating purposes. Asphal
turn which is a black, solid substance,
used in making varnishes, covering
roofs and covering vaults. Parafflne
a white crystallne substance resembling
white wax, which can be made into
beautiful candles similar to wax ; it
melts at a temperature of 110 degrees,
and affords an excellent light. All these
substances are now made from soft
coal.
A Sudden Change of Mind.
Miss Green and Mr. Neemier stood at
the chancel rail in a Roman Catholio
church at Delphos, Ohio, in the pres
ence of a large wedding assembly. The
marriage ceremony was smoothly per
formed to the point where Miss Green
was asked if she would take Mr. Nee
mier to be her husband.
44 No," I will not," she responded.
The priest was thoroughly confused,and
put the question again, whereupon she
declared that she had changed her
mind, but would give no explanation.
Of course the ceremony was not con
cluded. Cured of Drinking.
44 A young friend of mine was cured
of an insatiable thirst for Liquor, which
had so prostrated him that he was una
ble to do any business. He was entirely
cured by the use of Hop Bitters. It
allayed all that burning thirst; took
away the appetite for liquor; made his
nerves steady, and he has remained a
sober and steady man for more than two
years, and has no desire to return to his
cups ; I know of a number of others
that have been cured of drinking by it."
From a leading R. R. Official, Chica
go, Ills. 32 2t
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