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OCTOBEUClh, 1879.
Trains I-eaTe llarvisbnrg ns Follows :
For New York via Allentown, at B2Q, 8.06 a. m.
anil 1.4ft p. m. ....
For New York via " Bound Brook Route," 6.20,
8.t-5 a. m. and 1.45 p. m. ...
Kor Philadelphia, at 5.20, 805, 9.55 a. m., 1.45 ana
4.so p. m. ....
For Heading, at 5.20,8.05, O.t-5 a. m., l.,4.00,aiul
8.W p. m. ...
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and via Bchnylktll. and Susquehanna Branch at
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4.00 p. m.
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4.0Op..ni, ...
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The 5.20 train has through cars for Philadel
phia R. 20. 8. P5 a. m. and 1.45 p. in., make close
connection at Heading with Main Line trains
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SUNDAYS :
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For Allentown nnil Way Stations, at 5.20 a. in.
For Reading, Phlldelaphla, and Way Stations,
at 1.45 p. tn.
Trains Leave for Hnrrlsbuig as Follows j
Leave New York via Allentown, 8 45 a. in., 1.00
and 6.30 p. m.
Leave New York via "Bound Brook Route." 7.45
a. m., 1.30 and 4 tu p. in., arriving at lliurlsDurg,
1.50, 8.20 p. m., 12 35 midnight
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Leave Columbia. 7.55 a. lit . and 3.40 . in .
Leave Philadelphia, at 9.45 a. in., 4.U0 and 7.45
p. m.
Leave Pottsvllle. (too, 0,10 a. m. and 4.40 p. m.
lave Reading, at 4.60, 7.35,11.50 a. m., 1.30,6.15,
and 10.35 p.m.
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Branch, 8.2 a. in. Leave Auburn via Schuylkill
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Leave Allentown, at 5.oo, 0,05 a. in., 12.10, 4.30,
and 9.05 p. m.
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Leave Philadelphia, at 7.4Tp. m.
Leave Heading, at 7.35 a. in. and 10.35 p. m.
Leave Allentown. at 9.05 p. m.
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Ju'y 29, 1879.
A Gambler's First Attempt at
Preaching the Gospel.
OF COURSE I went to Lend vl lie, that
wonderful mushroom city, which
can boast of the most rascally gnmblers,
hardest drinkers.cheekiest hummers and
vilest prostitutes In creation. One's
first Impulse upon arriving in thetown
Is to start out and see the sights to gaze
In upon the many gambling hells,where
money Is ever changing hands upon the
turn of a card. Above the sharp click
ing of ivory checks can be heard the
voices of dealers calling upon the play
ers to " Make your bets, gentlemen,"
while notes of exultation and cursing
came forth In strange chorus, uttered by
those who lose and those who win. But
it Is not of gambling that I would tell
you. The scenes are but duplicates of
those so fanilllar to every pioneer in the
early dnys of the Union Pacific rail
road. I was standing in front of the hotel
when my attention was attracted by a
dilapidated, antiquated looking speci
men of a saloon bummer, who was
passing along the street ringing a bell.
At intervals he Would cease ringing,
and shout :
" Religious racket right away at the
big tent! Roll up, tumble, or slide
up on yer y-years, for we'll have a
hangup dish o' gospel talk from Faro
Bill an' d-o-o-n't you forget it 1"
Turning to a dapper little gambler
who stood near, I asked :
"Who is Faro Bill V"
"Who is he? Well, now, if that
ain't the boss play fur high. You kin
brake me right here if I thought there
was a bloke in the mines that didn't
know Bill. He used to be one of the
boys, but got capped into a religious
game by a slick-tongued gospel sharp
about two months ago. He's copped on
all his old rackets, and don't stand with
nothlu' now that don't show up a
Bible or prayer-book in the lay out.
Billy used to be the boss gambler of the
camp, and wasn't afraid to sit in a game
with the flyest sport that ever slung a
card ; but he's clean gone on the pious
lay now, and seems to have lost all the
good that was ever in him. The boss
mouthpiece of the heavenly mill has
gone down to Denver, an' Bill is a golu'
to stand in an' sling gospel to the boys
as well as he can."
This explanation, given in the most
earnest tones, started me instantly for
the tent. It was used at night for a va
riety theatre, where artists (?) of ques
tionable character performed acts of
still more questionable decency, and
was rented for religious -services every
Sunday morning. I found the tent,
filled to its utmost capacity. Many had
no doubt, come through curiosity to see
how Bill would deport himself in this,
his initial sermon. Upon the stage sat a
hurley, red-faced man with arms folded
in a careless manner, who looked over
the large' audience with an air of the
most decided importance. This was
Faro Bill, the speaker of the occasion.
When he arose he glanced around the
tent for a moment, evidently collecting
his thoughts, and began :
" Feller citizens, he preacher bein'
absent, it falls on me to take his hand
and play it fur all it is worth. .You all
know that I am just learnln' the game,
an' of course, I may be expected to
make wild breaks, but I don't think
thar's a rooster in , the camp mean
enough to take advantage- o' my igno
rance, and cold-duck me right on the
first deal. I'm sincere in this new de
parture, an' I believe I've struck a game
that I can play clear through without
copperin' a bet, for when a ruau tackles
such a lay out as this, he plays every
card to win, and If he goes through the
deal as he orter do, when he lays down
to die, an' the last case is ready to slide
from the box, he can tell the turn every
time.
"I was readln'in the Bible to-day
that yarn about the Prodigal Son, an' I
want to tell yer the story. The book
don't give any dates, but it happened
long, long ago. This Prodigal Son had
an old man that put jup the coin every
time the kid struck him for a stake, an'
never kicked, at the size of the pile
either. I reckon the old man was
purtywell fixed, an' when he died he
intended to give all his wealth to this
kid an' his brother. Prod give old man
a little game of talk one day, and in
duced him to whack up in advance o'
the death racket. He'd no sooner got
hia divy in his fist than he shook the
old man an' struck out to take in some
o' the other camps. He hed a way-up
time fur a while, aud slung his cash to
the front like he owned the best payin'
lead on earth; but hard luck hit him a
lick at last an' left him flat. The book
don't state what he went broke ou, but
I reckon he got steered up agin some
brace game. But anyhow, he got left
withouta chip ; or a four-bit piece to go
an' eat on.. An old granger then tuk
him home an' set htm to herdin' hogs,
an' here he got so hard up an' hungry
that be piped off the swine while they
were feedln', an' he stood in .with them
on a husk lunch.
" He soon weakened on such plain
provender, an' says he to himself, says
he:
"Even the old man's hired hands are
Hvln' on square grub, while I'm wor
ryln' along here on corn husks straight.
I'll Just take a grand tumble to myself
an' Chop on this racket at once. I'll
skip back to the governor aud try to
fix things up, and call fur a new deal,'
so oir he started.
" The old man seed the kid a coming
and what do you reckon he did t Did
he pull his gun and lay fur him, In
tending to wipe him as soon as lie got
into range ? Did he call the dogs to
chase him off the rancher" Did he
hustle around for a club and give him a
stand-off at the front gait t Eh? Not
to any alarming extent he didn't. No,
sir ! The Scripture book says he waltzed
out to meet him, and froze to him on
the spot, and kissed him, and then
marched him off to a clothing store an'
fitted him out in the nobbiest rig to be
had for coin. Then the old gent in
vited all the neighbors and killed a fat
calf, and gave the biggest blowout the
camp ever seed."
At the conclusion of the narrative,
the speaker paused, evidently framing
in his mind a proper application of the
story. Before he could resume, a tall,
blear-eyed gambler with a fierce mus
tache, arose aud said : .
" 'Taint me as would try ter break up
a meeting, or do anything dlsreliglous.
No, sir ; I am not that sort of a citizen.
But in all public hoo-doos is is a parlia
mentary rule for anybody as wants to
ax questions to rise up an' fire them off.
I do not want to' fool away any time a
questioning the workings of religion ;
oh, no. As long as it is kept in proper
bounds, and does not Interfere with the
boys in their games, I do not see as it
can do harm. I just want to ax the
honorable speaker if he has not given
himself dead away V Does it stand ter
reason that a bloke would eat corn husks
when there was hash factories in the
camp? Would anybody have refused
him the price of a square meal if he had
a struck them for it 'i Would any of
the dealers that beat him out of his coin
see him starve V As I remarked aforej
do not want to make any disrespectful
-remarks, but I must say that I have got
it put up that the speaker has been a
trying to feed us on cussed thin taffy,
and no one but a silly would take it
in."
Bill glared upon the speaker and fair
ly hissed :
" Do you mean to say that I am a
liarV"
" Wal, you cau take It just as you
choos. Some folks would swallow it in
that shape.'.'
Bill pulled his revolver, and in an in
stant the bright barrels of numerous
weapons flashed in the air as the friends
of each party prepared for active duty.
The brevet preacher was the first to fire,
and the rash doubter of spiritual truths
fell dead on the ground. Shot followed
Bhot in quick succession, and when
quiet was again restored a score or more
of dead and wounded men were ctlrrled
from the tent. Having Becured atten
tion, Bill said :
" Further proceedings is adjourned for
the day. You will receive the dox
ology." The audience arose.
" May grace, mercy and peace be with
you, now and forever, amen ; and I want
it distinctly understood that I am going
to maintain a proper respect for the gos
pel if I have to choke every son-of-a-gun
of a sinner in the mines. Meetin'
is out." -
The cro$d filed from the tent as coolly
as if nothing extraordinary had occur
red, and as I gained the sidewalk I
heard a man remark :
" Bill has got the sand to make a
bang up preacher, and I would not
wonder if he made a big mark in the
world yet."
An Accidental Discovery.
TWENTY years ago companies were
were at their wits' end to get rid of
the coal. tar produced in the distillation
of gas. Nobody would buy it, people
could hardly be persuaded to accept it as
a glft.and sanitary inspectors were wont
to grumble when it . was being secretly
carted from the works to be cast Igno
mlnously out of sight. This was the
most useless of all kinds of rubbish, and
in -many respects the most noxious. A
young chemist who had been taken in
band by the celebrated Hofmann, and
who, from an East End Mechanics' In
stitute, "where he showed a considerable
aptitude for chemical studies, bad been
transported to the laboratory of the
great man solved the problem for the
wrathful but helpless gas managers in
the year 1853. But he solved It in a
way as unexpected as it has turned out
to be remunerative. The story is inter
esting and instructive. William Perkln
that was the name of the young chem
istwas t the time of the splendid dis
covery engaged in an occupation which
has always had attractions for his co-In
vestlgators the endeavor to produce nat-
Ural organic bodies artificially. How
often aud how surprisingly they have
succeeded, the history of chemistry em
phatically shows. Mr. Perkln was try
ing to make quinine chemically. For
this purpose he selected a substance into
the composition of which nitrogen, hy
drogen, and carbon enter in near
ly the same proportions as they do in
the natural product.
He proposed to act on toluldlne with
iodide of allyle so as to form allyle
toluldlne, and he thought by mixing
blchroniate of potaslum with the neutral
sulphate an artificial bulnlne would re
sult. What was his horror when, carefully
adding the precise proportions of the
missing ingredient, instead of the color
less alkaloid he got a dirty reddish pow
der 1 Perkln might well have given up
in despair, or have scornfully tossed his.
red powder into the fire; but, balked In
one trial, he began again having very
carefully laid his powder aside for fur
ther investigation and this time he de
termined upon trying a different base.
Very fortunately for him, for the gas
companies, and for the world at large,he
selected aniline, which he treated with
sulpurlc acid and bichromate of potash ;
and now, instead Of red powder, or the
much-desired quinine,. he got a black
deposit more resembling the compound
near a pit-head on a wet day than any
thing else. He persevered with his new
and unpromlsng material, which he
. purified, dried, digested with spirits of
wine, and found to be a splendid aniline
purple, or what has since been kown as
" mauve dye."
The writer well remembers,one Decem
ber night in 1809, sitting In a crowded
audience in the theatre of the Society of
Arts, to hear the first of the Cantor Lec
tures for the year, which was to be de
livered by Mr. Perkln,and being charm
ed to see the " battle of the dyes" fought
over again. It was a " far cry" from
1850 to 1808, short as were the years, and
from the student in Hofmann's labo
ratory to the successful producer of
aniline colors. Twelve years had passed,
but in that time the practice and theory
of dyeing and printing in colors had
been revolutionized ; coal-tar, irstead of
being looked upon as rubbish, was cher
ished by gas managers as gold; and
ladies all over the world had gone mad
over the splendid new colors which
every year grew out of the original
black stuff" which was got in the
search for quinine. Mr. Perkin solved
the problem like a true chemist by turn
ing rubbish into gold.
The Adventures of a Salesman.
Among the many adventures encounter
ed by travollng salesman we bear of none
more embarrassing or annoying than that
hich befell our esteemed friend, A. E
Hand, the well-known carpet salesman of
Hood, Bonbright & Co., this oity. It
seems, while making his late business trip
through the New England States, he was
subjected to considerable annoyance and
arrest by the special detootives in that sec
tion of the country, who supposed him to
be no other than Mr. Frank Mabln, who
mysteriously disappeared from our city a
short time since. We are surprised at the
want of conception on the part of Yankee
deteotives' in making this tremendous blun
der, and not being able to discern at a
glance the difference in the personal ap
pearance of the two gentlemen, the only
similarity beiog in the oolor and curl of
'the moustache, Mr. Mabin, if we remem
ber his appearance, is tall and of slender
build, ruddy complected, while our friend,
Hand, is a man of medium night, well-proportioned,
with a complexion as fair as a
child's. The first idea Mr. Hand had of
his being looked upon with suspicion was
in New Haven, whore he noticed a man
watching him closely ; but, knowing him
self to be a respectable married man with
a character above the general run of sales
men, he was rather unconcerned, not sup
posing the individuals had other designs
than those of robbing him of bis valuable
watch and diamond studs, which he took
the precaution to pack among bis samples.
But, on leaving the hotel, you may im
agine his surprise,' and with what disgust
be turned to find a band laid upon bis
shoulder and confronted by the party who
had shadowed him and who proved to be
no other than a special doteotive, armed
with all the privileges of the law to arrest
him as Frank Mabln. As the officer felt
positive of h Is man Mr. II. had consider
able difficulty in convincing him of the
mistake, and it was not until Mr. Martin,
from H. B. Armstrong & Co., well known
to the oflioer, was interviewed, that onr
friend was reloased and allowed to depart
on his way rejoicing, which however, was
of but short duration, for on arriving in
Boston, while walking the streets in pleas
ant conversation with a few friends, he
was again approached by a special officer
with a warrant for his arrest, but with the
aid of his friends be was enabled to estab
lish bis identity, whereupon he was at once
released. He immediately purchased a
ticket direct for Philadelphia, and is now
safely ensconced within the walls of the
outissal establishment of, his employers,
awaiting the return of his fao-Bimlle, or
to hear of Ms posltivo whereabouts, before
venturing on another business trip.
Textile Journal.
trying to Astonish a Pawnbroker.
THE Imperturbability and extreme
caution of the average pawnbroker
are proverbial. The other day a young
man of an experimental and facetious
turn of mind resolved to astonish a
pawnbroker or die In the attempt. So,
entering the secret shrine, he gave the
officiating pontiff a $10 gold-piece and
said :
"Well, old man! how much'll you
advance me on that?"
The pawnbroker tasted, rang and
weighed the coin, dropped a little aqua
fortis upon it, and replied :
' I can let you have $4 on It."
"Four ErebusesV" cried the young
man ; why, It's worth more !"
" Well, yes," answered the pawn
broker ; ." the gold is good, evidently.
But it's very old-fashioned it was made
in 1834 and Isn't worth any more than
Its weight In old metal. Besides, there
is such fluctuation in gold and silver. I
have seen gold up to 185,and silver down
to 84. HoW do I know but that silver
may go up to 285, and go down to 84 V I
can't take any risks in my business like
that, you know I But I'll tell you what
I'll do, seeing it Is you ; I don't mind
letting you have $5 on it. But don't let
the boss know, for he has the heart
disease, and the shock might kill
him!"
"Gimme $7, and I'll take it!" Baid
the impetuous youth ; but the pawn
broker shook his head so sternly that he
knew it was no go ; and so, picking up
his $10 piece, he departed. He returned
three minutes afterward, and throwing
down the same piece, said to the pawn
broker :
" Say ! can you give me two $5 green
backs for this i1"
"Certainly, sir!" said the pawn
broker calmly, and produced the notes.
"You sweet-scented old Idiot!" said
the young man as he pocketed the bills,
" that's the same $10 piece that you
wouldn't led me $7 on at Interest a min
ute ago!"
"I know it, my friend," said the
pawnbroker. " That was business I that
was business !"
Splitting the Difference.
A young man with the blush of coun
try life on his cheeks, sold out his pro
duce in the market recently and entered
a shoe store, and 'said he wanted a pair
of shoes for his wife.
"What number, sir!"' inquired the
clerk.
The young man scratched his head,
looked very much embarrassed, and fin
ally said :
"Well, I've been married eight
months, but this shoe business stumps
me. ' I don't hardly believe she wears
'levens, and I don't think she kin get
into fives. I guess if we split the dif
ference we will hit her pretty close."
He was given a pair of eights, and
after squinting along the soles he ob
served :
"I guess them'll do. She is awful
proud, and I know' she'll sqeeze Into 'em
for all she's worth."
A Dog Drowned by a Coon.
On Tuesday last a very valuable dog
belonging to Mr. White, of Sauvle's Is
land, while strolling around through
the timber near the slough, came upon
a coon's trail and followed it to the ani
mal's hiding place. After considerable
digging and barking, the coon was
routed and took to the water and after it
went the dog. The fight was a life
and death struggle, but the coon was
too cunning. As the dog approached
him he seized him by the nose and
sank beneath the - surface, pulling the
dog's head under the water. The pro.
cess was repeated until the dog was
drowned and bis coonshlp swarm to
the shore and disappeared uninjured.
Portland (Oregon) Bee.
r3T A pretty incident occurred at Leb
anon, Ont., the other Sunday. Into the
Methodist Church flew a robin during
service. Perching on a rail opposite the
pulpit, it sang loudly when the people
sang, was silent during prayer, but
while the minister preached it chirped
occasionally a if to encourage him. It
remained until the congregation was
formally dismissed and then flew away.
Almost Young Again.
"My mother was afttlcted a long
time with Neuralgia and a dull, heavy
inactive condition of the whole system ;
headache, nervous prostration, and was
almost helpless. No physicians or med
icines didheraoy good. Three months
ago she began to use Hop Bitters, with
such good effect that she seems and feels
young again, although over 70 years old.
We think there is no other medicine fit
to use in the family." A lady, in Prov.
idence, It. I. 43