THE TIMES, NEW UL00MF1ELD, PA. DECEMHEll 30, 1879.
Uncle Dan's Advice.
EDWAUD STONE etood Impatiently
upon the top atep of Uncle Dan's
stately residence. There tvas not the
faintest sign of life anywhere around
the whole front part of the house was
closed and darkened ; and having rung
several times without eliciting any re
pnuBe, he was about to conclude that
there was no one within hearing, when
a head wns thurst out of the upper win
down. ' Young tnun, go round to the side
donr."
Considerably sUirtled by this unex.
ected address, the young man obeyed.
Vpon the porch, blushing away the
leaves that covered It, was a young girl
of fifteen. She looked very pretty as
he stood there, the bright autumnal
sunshine falling on the round white
arms and uncovered head.
Setting down her broom, she ushered
him into a medium sized, plainly fur
nished room, which gave no indication
of the reputed wealth of Its owner.
The young man took a seat, brushed
a few flecks of dust from the lapel of his
coat, ran his fingers through his care
fully arranged locks, and thus delivered
himself:
" Tell your master that his nephew,
Ijd ward Hlone, is here."
A faint smile touched the rosy lips,
and with u demure "yes, sjr," the girl
vanished.
A few minutes later, au elderly gen
tleman entered, with Intelligent, strong-ly-niarkcd
features, and a shrewd look
in the eyes, which seemed to take the
mental measure of his visitor at a
glance.
" Well, sir, and what is your business
with nle?"
"I am your nephew, Edward Btone."
"So my daughter told me. What do
you want?"
" I want your assistance. "
"Yes, but what do you want me to
do for you ?"
" I was thinking of going Into busi
ness, and thought I would come and
talk It over with you, and ask you to
give me a lift."
" What better capital do you want
than you already have 'i A strong able
bodied young man wanting a lift! You
ought to le ashamed of yourself! What
have you been doing V"
Edward's face flushed with anger at
this unceremonious language; but feel
ing that he could not adbrd to quarrel
with his wealthy relative he gave no
other Indication of it.
44 I've been in a store since I left
school, two years ago."
41 Saved nothing from your salary, I
suppose V"
44 No, it's only live hundred not more
than enough for my expeuses."
44 Humph ! You are able to dress your
self out of it, I perceive. I have known
men to rear and educate a large family
on five hundred dollars a year; and if
you have been unable to save anything,
you certainly are not fit to go into busi
ness ou your own account. When I
was at your age, my Income was less
than three hundred dollars, and I saved
half of it. What is the business you
wish to engage in V"
44 Stationary and booke. Six hundred
dollars will buy it, as the owner Is oblig
ed to sell ; a rare chance. I don't ask
you to give me the amount, only to lend
it; I will give you my note with in
terest." 44 Young man I have several such
papers already. You can have all of
them for five dollars ; and I warn you
that it will prove a poor investment at
that. I can give you some advice,
though, which if you'll follow will be
worth to you a good many times over
the amount you ask. But you won't do
it." ,
44 How do you know tbatV" said
Edward, with a smile, who began to feel
more at home with his eccentric relative.
44 I'd like to hear it, anyway."
44 Well, here It is." Go back to your
place in the store, and save three dollars
a week from your salary, which you can
easily do ; learning in the meantime,
all you possibly can in regard to the
business you intend to pursue. At the
end of four years you will have the
capital you seek, together with sufficient
experience and judgment to know how
to use it. And, better still, it will be
yours, earned by your own industry and
felf denial, and worth more to you than
ten times that amount got in any other
way. Then come and see me again."
44 You M rather have my money than
my advic", I dare say," added Mr. Stone,
as Edward rose to go: 44 but we'll be
tetter friends four years hence than if I
let you have it. Sit down, nephew ; the
train you will have to take won't leave
uutil six lu the evening. You must
stay to tea; 1 want you to see what a
complete little housekeeper I have, and
make you acquainted with her."
"Polly !" he called out, opening the
door into the hall.
In prompt obedience to this summons,
a rosy-cheeked, bright-eyed girl tripped
in. The neat rluk dress had been ex
changed for a pretty merino, but our
hero did not Tall to recognize her, and
his face flushed painfully as he did
so.
44 roily," continued her father, 44 this
Is your cousin Edward. He leaves on
the six o'clock train ; and I want you
to make his Bhort stay with us ns pleas
ant as possible."
44 Polly Is my little housekeeper," he
added, turning to his nephew ; 44 1 hire
a woman for the rough work, and she
docs all the rest. When she's eighteen
she shall have all the servants she
wants, hut she must serve her appren
ticeship first. It may stand her in good
stead ; she may hike it into her head to
marry a poor man, ns her mother did
before her. 44 Eh! tny girl V"
Mary's only reply to this was a smile
and blush. Our hero was considerably
embarrassed by the recollection of the
mistake he had made;, but the quietly
cordial greeting of his young hostess
soon put him comparatively at his
ease.
At her fathers request who was very
proud of his daughter's varied accom
plishments Mary sang and played for
her cousin ; and his visit ended In sin
gular contrast to the' stormy way it
commenced. Edward refused the five
dollar note tendered to hint by his
uncle at parting for his traveling ex
penses. .
The old man smiled, as he returned
the note to his pocket-book.
44 He's a sensible young chap, after
all," he remarked to his daughter, ns
the door closed after his guest. 44 It's
In him, if It only can be brought out.
We shall see, we shall see."
44 A good deal for father to say," was
Mary's Inward comment, who thought
her cousin the mo3t agreeablo young
man she had ever met.
Three years later, Mr. Stone and his
daughter passed In front of a small but
neat and pleasant looking shop, on the
plate-glass door of which were the
words: 44 Edward Stone, Stationer and
Bookseller."
It being too early In the day for custo
mers, they found the proprietor alone,
whose face flushed with pride and pleas
ure as he greeted them."
44 1 got your card, nephew," said the
old man, with a cordial grasp of the
hand, 41 and called around to see how
you were getting on. I thought It was
about time I gave you the little lift you
asked of me three years ago. You don't
look much as If you needed it, though."
44 Not at present, thank you, uncle,"
was the cheerful response. 44 Curiously
enough, it is the same busiuess that I
wanted to buy then. The man who
took it had to borrow money to pur
chase it with, getting so much involved
that he had to sell at a sacrifice."
44 Just what you wanted to do."
Edward smiled at the point made by
his uncle.
44 It Isn't what I have done, though.
I've saved four dollars a week from my
salary for the last three years ; and so
was not only able to pay the money
down, but had fifty dollars besides."
44 Bravo 1 my boy," cried the delighted
old man, with another grasp of the hand
that made our hero wince. 44 I'm proud
of you I you're bound to succeed, I see,
and without anybody's help. I told
your cousin Polly that when she was
eighteen I'd buy her a house in the city;
that she should furnish it to suit herself
and have all the servants she wanted,
and I've kept my word. Come round
and see us whenever you can. You'll
always find the latchBtrlng out."
Edward did not fall to accept the
invitation so frankly extended a very
pleasant intimacy growing up between
the three during the twelve months that
followed. Our hero's business grew and
prospered until he began to think of
removing to a larger place. His uncle
had given him several liberal orders as
well as sent him a number of customers,
but said nothing more about assisting
him in any other way until Christmas
eve. Entering the room where Edward
and his daughter were sitting, he said : .
44 1 musn't delay any longer the "little
lift I promised you, nephew, and which
you have well earned."
Edward glanced from the five thou
sand dollar check to the lovely face at
his side, and then to that of the speak,
er.
44 You are very kind, uncle far kind
er than I deserved, but"
. 44 But what, lad V Speak out 1 Would
you prefer it in some other form r"
Edward's fingers clored tenderly and
strongly over the hand that he had
taken in his.
44 Yes, uncle In this."
The old man looked keenly from one
to the other.
44 You are asking a good deal, nephew.
Polly, have you been encouraging this
young man in his presumption V"
44 I'm afraid I have, father," was the
smiling response.
44 Then go, my daughter. I give you
to worthy "keeping; and if you make
your husband's heart as happy as your
mother made mine during the few, Bhort
years that she tarried by iny side, he will
be blest Indeed."
The Stale of Franklin.
EVEKYIWDY'kuo'wsthat itiere are
thirty-eight States, and that origin
ally there were thirteen colonies, and
most people can repeat the names of
these States and colonies as glibly as
their alphabet; but we venture to say
that very few have ever heard of the
State of Franklin. And yet history
recognizes the existence of such a State,
and one that, In Its day, enjoyed no
small degree of celebrity.
It Is well known that, after the devo
lution, most of the original thirteen
Slates claimed jurisdiction among them
selves over the territory stretching In
definitely to the westward. The separate
jurisdiction of each State was ill defined,
and, to avoid all trouble, to give the
general government what seemed its
due, and to assist It In throwing off the
debt Incurred by the war of independ
ence, the Congress of the Confederation
requested the various States to cede
their claims to theCJeneral Glovernnient.
The matter was not definitely settled
until after the adoption of the constitu
tion ; but the State of North Carolina
attempted to cede, in compliance with
the request of Congress, its Western
lands, which now form the State of
Tennessee; and this attempt at cession
which brought about the complications
that shortly afterward resulted in the
brief existence of the State of Franklin.
Nortli Carolina ceded, but Congress,
vacillating and vigorless, hesitated about
accepting the cession. Having made
the cession, North Carolina gave up all
Interest In her border settlements, and
Congress refused to accept' the charge
which North Carolina had thrown off.
The consequences were serious for the
fortunes and happiness of the Tennessee
settlers. Their borders were overrun
with criminal.-! aud fugitives from jus
tice, such a9 always infest a pioneer
community, and yet the action of the
mother State left them without courts
to assert Justice and Inflict punishment.
They had at all times to be on their
guard against marauding bands of In
dians, and yet they were without u
regularly-constituted militia for their
defense. They were, In fact, cast ofls,
and did what one would naturally expect
them to do under the circumstances.
The three northeastern counties of the
Territory Washington, Sullivan and
Greene lying In the northern part of
what is now Eastern Tennessee, then
the only well-settled portion of the
State, met In convention at Jonesboro,
Washington county, In August, 17tf4,
and after a long discussion In which
the Declaration of Independence was
read and cited ns a fit example for them
to follow, they declared themselves
Independent of North Carolina. After
a variety of fortunes the little State was
organized, and, in honor of Benjamin
Franklin, was called the State of Frauk
lin. The chief interest which the State of
Franklin has for us to-day comes from
two or three striking characters which
its history brought iutu prominence.
The principal of these, John Sevier, a
Virginian by birth, but a Huguenot by
descent, is one Of the noteworthy char
acters in the annals of Tennessee.
Sevier was the foremost man in all
the councils and enterprises of the man
who afterward formed the State of
Franklin. He was commander of the
Tennessee Rifleman at King's Mountain
and was chosen as the first Governor,
and continued to be the ouly Governor
of the State of Franklin.
Sevier fought hard for the State, but
after the first year of its existence the
fight was a losing one, for North Caro
lina, after the first abandonment of her
oil spring, suddenly turned about and
re-asserted her jurisdiction. She had all
the power, and had the communication
betweeu the States been easy, and had
she asserted her rights with vigor and
promptness, the revolt of the western
counties would havo been crushed in its
inclpiency; but the fact that these two
conditions were entirely wanting neces
sarily made the policy of North Carolina
a 44 waiting" one, and this policy, assist
ed by feuds and divisions in the State of
Franklin, made a peaceful and bloodless
settlement of the difficulty possible.
Maj. John Tipton seems to have been
as unlike Sevier as It is possible for two
men to be lie had none of Sevier's
suavity of manner; he was brusque aud
and uncompromising a man to whom
it was Impossible to endure a rival, who
aspired to leadership, and who was
jealousof all who contended for It with
him. This man had supported the
State of Frauklin It its early days, but
afterward, probably because he saw that
Sevier's Influence was likely to over
shadow his own, threw the whole weight
of his Influence in favor of a return to
thejurlsdicton of North Carolina.
So rapidly did the fabrlo of the new
State perish that, three years after its
establishment, iu the words of a recent
writer upon the subject, 44 No Legisla
ture at all could be assembled, and it
was one of the the duties of the Legisla
ture to elect the Council, and as the
Legislature, at its last session, had failed
to do this, the Council was soon a thing
of the past. To complete this catalogue
of misfortune, Judge Campbell, the
head of the Judiciary, accepted offloe
under the Government of North Caroli
na. Gov. Sevier was left alone in his
official dignity. Even this sole rello of
the Franklin Government would not,
in the natural course of events, remain
long exempt from the general wreck, for
the Governor's term expired on March
1, 1788, and it being a constitutional
function of the Legislature to elect the
Governor, and there being no Legisla
ture to perform this duty, it followed
Inevitably that after March 1,1788, there
would be no Governor of the State of
Franklin."
Suoh were the facts, aud the State of
Franklin thus ended.
Sevier finally became Governor of
Tennessee, aud for many years served
In the House of Representatives in
Washington.
The Painted Belt.
THERE was a widow lady of compar
ative youth aud many personal
attractions residing In Canton who had,
for some time, unsuccessfully endeavor
ed to Induce the local dentist to accept
the rank aud emoluments of her late
husband. The dentist, however, was a
cautious man, and, although he greatly
admired the widow, declined to commit
himself. Aboutamoutli ago Esquire
Medly,of Canton, gave a party, which
was altogether the most brilliant nfialr
of the kind within the memory of the
oldest inhabitant. The parlor of the
Medley rnausiou was crowded with
guests, who overflowed into the hall,'
and rose gradually to the top of the
staircase. In the course of the evening
the widow became somewhat faint, in
consequence of the heat, and requested
the dentist to conduct her into the gar
den, where the fresh air might revive
her. It did revive her to an Immense
extent, and the dentist found the garden
such a pleasant place that he decided to
remain with his companion aud smoke
a cigar.
When the pair returned to the parlor
a curious phenomenon attracted unusual
attention. The widow wore a wide belt
beautifully ornamented with a painted
vine of some undetermined botanical
species. The dentist wore a black coat,
uiid to the amazement of the public, one
side of his right sleeve wns seen to be
decorated with the green stem and leaves
and the brilliant white and yellow flow
ers of the vine that ornamented the
widow's belt. The conclusion drawn by
wicked and heartless people was inevita
ble. There was no possible defense to
be made. The widow wisely slipped out
and went home, and the dentist followed
her example, burning with rage and
wishing that all Canton had but one
back tooth, that he might draw it with
an old-fashioned turnkey and without
the use of auiu3thetics. Of course the
widow lost no time iu pointing out to
him that there was but one way in
which he could repair his indiscretion
and uudo the injury which he had done
her, and accordingly he was within a
week brought to the altar, where he
expiated his fault with much fortitude,
and furnished an awful example of the
wickedness of painted belts.
A Joke on the Judge.
A good judicial anecdote is told by
44 Fay," in the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Iu one of the Western states a case
waB tried, and at its termination the
judge charged the Jury, and they retired
for consultation. Hour after hour pass
ed and no verdict was brought in. The
Judge's dinner hour arrived, and he
became hungry and impatient. Upon
inquiry he learned that one obstinate
juryman was holding out agalnts eleven.
That he could not stand, and he ordered
the twelve men to be brought before
him. He told them that, in his charge
to them, he bad so plainly stated the
case and the law that the verdict ought
to be unanimous, and the man who
permitted his individual opinion to
weigh against the judgment of eleven
men of wisdom was unfit and disquali
fied ever again to act in the capacity of
jurymen. At the end of this excited
harangue a little squeaky voice came
from one of the jurymen. He said:
41 Judge, will your honor allow me to
say a word V" Permission being given,
he added: 44 May it please your honor,
I'm the only man on your side."
3" A'man can fasten skates on his
bister in much less than half the time
he can fix a pair on some other fellow's
sister. Why Is this t Figure it out,and
send us the answer on ice.
Truth and Honor.
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Query : What is the best family med
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purify the blood, 'remove costlveness
and biliousness, aid digestion tone up
the whole system V Truth and honor
compels us to answer, Hop Bitters, be
ing pure, perfect aud harmless.
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JACOB STRICKLER,
(Successor to Dr. M. B. Strlckler)
PHABMACIST,
NEW BL00MFIELD, PENN'A.
HAVING succeeded the late Arm of Dr. M. B.
Strlckler In the Drug Business at bis Store-room,
on mia oiuf.r.L, iwo aoors liist 01 the Hi g
Spring, I will endeavor to make It in every way
win my me hli uiiiki 01 me puuue.
PArsnnnl and utrint nttant I. in 4T A I.T. TTHff1
clans' prescriptions, ho as to Insure accuracy Lai
Kiven 10 ine coniDOunuinir ana aisrjensinir rni
BEAR I JIIM
that my stock has been recently selected arid era
taken to have everything cf the HE8I (Juii'i
T Y. The public may rest assured that ALL iied-
PURE and UNADULTERATED.
I UAYE CONSTANTLY ON HAND
HAIR OIL and POMADES
HAIll, TOOTH and NAIL BRUSHES.
BURGEONS, TOILET, and
CARRIAGE SPONGKls,
PUPE BuXKH, TOILET POWDERS,
CASTILE and 1'ANCY SOAPS.
PERFUMERY OF ALL KINDS,
Together with Fresh and Genuine Patent Medi
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ALSO,
Segars, Tobacco, School Books, 4c.
ORANGES, LEMON3 & BANANAS,
In season.
Pure Wines und Liquors for Medicinal
Purposes.
Terms, Strictly OiihIi.
By strict attention to business, I hope to merit
the confidence aud favor of the public.
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