THE TIMES NEW BLOOM FIELD, PA.. APRIL 13, 1880. your KratuHtither whs generous enough to befriend me, which he will not do. You eau 'tune anything of your own, And imi It disgraces you without aflbrd. ing me a particle of assistance." Frances Btanhope freed herself from the clasp in which there was bo little affection. She thrust down the pang that threatened to strangle her, and .steadied her voice. ' Two months ago I thought you lov I'd me," she began, with a calmness that surprised even herself. ' I would have given my life to serve you; I did give what was of more value. I believed In you Implicitly. Anil now" " We may as well tell each other the truth," he began, sullenly, averting his fctce. "It was a foolish step, and I'm .Mirry I persuaded you to tuke It. Love iooked fair enough at VVoodlea, when v-e had nothing else to do. And If we had either of us been rich, it would have proved smooth sailing, but I couldn't do on thing with a wife here in the city. May be if you had been patient, the alliilr might have come around right tome time, but as it stands, it's a crazy pleee of work. You'll be able to get a llvanoe, and that's best, as your friends will tell j-ou. I'm Borry enough about :ir, France." XL is careless voice had once been ersunslve mid Impatient, and depicted fur her visions of happiness ; this moody fiioe had been radiant and teuder until "it had inspired her with the fullest fuith. (), why hod she been bo blind, for now Mhenul'd see. lions Stanhope had veiled Uis-wHtisli motives for the lime, but having failed, he no longer cared to disguise iliem, yet he would gladly have Kiveu Frances her freedom if it had been in his power. The marriuge hod been of no benefit to hlm,and he could scaree !y hope it would be, now. The miserable interview came to an .ml at length. Frances was glad to euve him, though she felt unutterably wretched. Mrs. Btauhope remained with him nearly an hour, and coming back, Mok tlie poor girl In her arms. " V ni art) mine," she said, with a ten der kii "and we must comfort each .it her. Will you go home with meV" Fran ues was only too glad to comply. Three rooms in an unpretentious house on a quiet street, that If poor, wore an air of cheerfulness and comfort. After ward, when she learned how the mother had Kacrificed all to iter child, in the hope of one day seeing him take a high place among his fellow-men, she honor ed as well as loved. It was tbeold Btory of a handsome, selfish youth, with some Uk-ut, perverting all his good gifts. The trial came on speedily. The case was so clear that hardly any effort was made for defence. Boss Stanhope was found guilty, and sentenced to a term of tlve years' labor in the State Prison. And Frances shuddered when she found herself a convict's wife. Once she had iicen proud of his love. When she was missed at Woodlea, Mr. Yaughan would have no search instituted for her. He was implacable in his resentment. He forbade Edith to mention her name, and the real cause of her departure was not even explained to the servants. At first it was impossible tor Mr. Murray to leave his old friend, but his secret heart longed for some tidings of the wanderer, so he wrote to his lawyer, aud through him learned t hat Frances Stanhope was with her husband's mother. Left alone with a fair field, Edith Yaughan labored .skilfully to remove the impression her cousin had made. Fair and gracious, she brought herself iuto strong contrast with the impulsive, misguided girl, who had chosen to fol low her first fancy. But Evan Murray was clear eyed, and he understood the AH)!d craftiness of Edith. Woodlea would l no temptation to him. It was not until after the trial that he sought Frances. No brother could have een kinder, and by degrees he won 'com her the old story of her ill-fated marriage. " You could procure a divorce," he mid, slowly. " You are still young, ;Oid there Is o much of life before you." . . " I cannot forget that I married Ross Stanhope of my own free will, and I hhall accept the punishment. No one upon earth needs me besides his mother, aud she is broken lu health as well as heart. I shall devote my life to her. If, at the expiration of five years, he .thall have repented," and her voice trembled, ' I think I shall know my duty. God will give me strength to -do :t. My summer has euded." It was a chilly autumn day, and the wind swept cheerlessly up the street as he said thin. It seemed like , a predlc Uon. ' You have been most- kind," she weutou. ' It Is good to know there Is oue pereon who can he merciful, and aot condemn me utterly. I shall always remember it with a thanksgiving." He knew that she was putting him out of her life. Could any one have taken up a cross more bravely V His old fam-it-M aixiut her had been true. it wa better that they should part. He accepted the flat, but Bhe never knew all the watchful care he exercised. Devoting herself to a life of toll, she was more to Mrs. Stanhope than her own child had ever been. Mr. Vaughan died suddenly, and Woodlea, with Its large income, was bestowed upon Edith, who still rematued Miss Yaughan. . Frances lived through the dreary years until Bhe was of age, when she came into possession of her own small fortune. Henceforth the days were brightened by a little more ease and comfort. And her husband seemed after a while to'eviuce a sort of interest In her that appeared akin to tenderness. She had said that Clod would give her strength to do her duty, but she shrank from the issue with a terrible dread. She had learned bo much more of herself as well as him, and coming to a higher standard, understood love at Its best estate. She was mercifully spared the trial of a decision. Ross Stanhope died after a few days' Illness, so brief, Indeed, that his mother was not summoned until it was too late. And so Frances received back her freedom. Months after this, Evan Murray sat in her little parlor, using all his efforts to convince her that it was not too late to begin life under happier auspices. It was summer again five years since she had dared fate, and lost. "I am not worthy," she said, again. " My darling, are all these years of patient self-denial to go for nothing V To-day you are better and nobler than when I first loved you ; the very woman that I saw In the child'B soul so long ago. I think cue belongs to me by virtue of patient waiting." And glancing up, the eyes of Frances Stanhope said what the lips could never unsay, that there had been but one love to her life, and the old troubled dream was laid away in its grave. Moso Skinner's Story, v WHEN I married my second wife, she was dreadful set about going off on a bridal tour. I told her she'd better wait six mouths or a year, and I'd try to go with her, but she said she would rather go alone when a woman was traveling, a man was an out-and-out humbug. So I gave her seventy-five cents, and told her to go off and have a good time. never hegrudge money where my wife's happiness is concerned. My first wife never could complain of not going anywhere, for I'm dreadful fierce to go oft'on a good time myself, aud always was. I don't pretend to say how many times I took her out to see the engine squirt, and there was no end to the free lectures I let her go to. The neighbors used to say : . " It does beat all how the Skinners do go I " ' When Slgnor I'litz was in Skunkvllle, with his wonderful canaries, he gave my wife a complimentary ticket. I not only Bold that ticket for my wife, but I gave her half the money. I don't boast of it, though ; I only mention it to show much I thought of my wife's happi ness. I don't think a man ought to get married until he can consider his wife's happiness only second to his own. John Wise, a neighbor of mine did thusly, and when I got married I con cluded to do likewise. But the plan didn't work in the case of my second wife. No, I should say not. I broached the matter kindly : " Matilda," I said, " I suppose you are aware that I am now 'your lord and master." " Not much you ain't." " Mrs. Skinner," I replied, " you ars fearfully demoralized; you need re-or-ganlztng at once. You are cranky." And I brunlshed my new sixty-two cent umbrella wildly around her. She took the umbrella away from me and locked me in the clothes press. I am quick to draw an inference and the inference I drew was that I was not a success as a re-organizer of female women. After this I changed my tactics, and I let her have her own way, and the plan worked to a charm from the very first. It's the best way of managing a wife that I know of. Of course this Is between you and me. So when my wife said she was bound to go off on a bridal tour, I cordially consented. " Go Matilda," said I,' and stay as long as you want to, then, If you feel as though you wanted to stay a little longer Btay, my dear, stay." . She told me to stop talking and go up stairs and get her red flannel night-cap, and that bag of pennyroyal for her Aunt Abigail. My wife 1b a very Bmart woman. She was a Baxter, and the Baxter's are a very smart family Indeed. Her mother who Is going on eighty can fry more slap-jacks now than those primped-up city girls who rattle on the piano or else walk the streets with their furbelow fixings, pretending to get mad if a youth looks at 'em pretty hard, hut getting mad lu earnest If you don't notloe them at all. " Ah ! girls ain't what they used to be when I was young, and the fellows are worse still. When I went courting, for Instance, I never thought of staying till after ten o'clock, and only went twice a week. . Now they go seven nights In a week, anO cry because there ain't eight. Then they write touching notes to each other during the day i " Dear George, do you love me as much now as you did at a quarter past twelve last night V Say you do dear, and It will give me courage to go down to dinner and tackle them cold beans left over from yesterday." Well, well, I Buppose they enjoy themselves, and It ain't for us old folks, whose hearts are a little callous by long wear, to Interfere. Let them get togeth er and court If they like It and I think they do. I was forty-seven when I courted my present wife, but It seemed ust as nice to sit on a cricket at her feet and let her smooth my hair as it did thirty years ago. As I said before, my wife Is a very smart woman, but she could not be auy thing else and be a Baxter. She used to give lectures on woman's rights, aud in one place where she lectured a big col lege conferred the title L. L. D. on her. But she would not take It. "No, Gentlemen," she said, "give It to the poor." She was always jupt so charitable. She gave my boys permission to go barefoot all winter, and insisted it so much lu her kind way that they couldn't re fuse. She fairly dotes on my children, and I've seen her many a time go to their trowsers pockets and take out pennies, after they had got to sleep, and put them in the bureau drawer for fear they might loose them. I started out to tell you about my wife's bridal tour, but the fact is I ifever could find out much about it myself. I believe she had a good time. She came back Improved In health, aud I found out before she had been in the house twenty-four hours, that she gained in strength also. I don't say how I found It out I simply say I found It out. In conclusion I would say to all vounc men : Marry your second wife first, and keep out of debt by all means, even If you have to borrow the money to do It. Useful and Interesting. INHERE are 2,750 languages. Two persons die every second. The average human life is thirty-one years. Slow rivers flow four miles per hour. Rapid rivers flow seven miles per hour. A moderate wind blows seven miles per hour. A 'storm moves thirty-six miles per hour. A hurricane moves eighty miles per hour. A rifle ball moves 1,000 miles per hour. Sound moves 743 miles per hour. Light moves 102,000 miles per hour. Electricity moves 288,000 miles per hour. The first steamboat plied the Hudson in 1807. The first Iron steamship was built in 1830. The first luclfer match was made in 1820. The first horse railroad was built lu 1830-7. Gold was discovered in California In 1848. . . The first use of a locomotive in this country was in 1820. The first printing press in the United States was Introduced In 1029. The first almanao was printed by Geo. Von Furbach in 1460. Until 1776 cotton spinning was per formed by the hand-spinning wheel. The first steam engine on this conti nent was brought from England in 1753. , Measure 200 feet on each side and you will have a square acre, within an inch. A square mile contains 640 acres.,. A mile is 0,280 feet or 1,700 yards in length. A fathom is six feet. A league Is three miles. A Sabbath-day's Journey Is l,15o yards (this 1b eighteen yards less than two- thirds of a mile.) A day's journey Is thirty-three and one-eighth miles. A cubit is two feet. A great cubit is eleven feet. A hand horse measure is four inches. , : A palm is three inches. A span is ten and seven-eighth inches, A pace 1b three feet. A barrel of flour weighs 196 pounds. A barrel of pork weighs 200 pounds. A firkin of butter weighs 84 pounds. A tub of butter weighs 60 pounds. The following are sold by weight per bushel. Wheat, beans and clover seed, sixty pounds per bushel. Corn, Rye and flax-seed, 60 pounds per bushel. Buckwheat, 62 pound per bushel. Barley, 48 pounds per bushel. Oats, 82 pounds per bushel. Bran, 83 pounds pounds per bushel. , Timothy seed, 45 pounds per bushel. Coarse salt, 86 pounds per bushel. A Barefoot Wedding. ABOUT twenty years ago a Bmart young fellow named Johnson, In the wilds of Cheat Mountains, in West Virginia, made up his mind to be mar ried. " But you have not a penny," remon strated his friends. " I have two hands. A man was given two hands one to scratch for himself, the other for his wife," he Bald. On the day of the wedding, Johnson appeared In a whole coat and trousers, but barefooted. " This Is hardly decent," said the clergyman. " I will lend you a pair of Bhoes." "No," said Johnson. " Whep I can buy shoes I will wear them. Not be fore." And he stood tip to be married without any thought of his feet. The same sturdy directness showed itself In his future course. . What he. had not the money to pay for ho did without. He hired himself to u farmer for a year's work. With the money lto he saved he bought a couple ot acres of timber-land and a pair of sheep, built himself a hut, and went to work on his grou nd. His sheep Increased, bs time Hew by he bought more; then he sold off the cheaper kinds and invested in South dow and French Merino. His neighbors tried by turns raising cattle, horses, or gave their attention lo experimental farming. Johnson, having once found out that sheep rolslng in his district brought a handsome profit, stuck to it. Ho had that shrewdness In seeing the best way and that dogged persistence In following Jt which are the elements of success. Stock-buyers from the eastern market found that Johnson's fleeces were the finest and his mutton the sweetest on the Cheat. He never allowed their reputation to fail. The end of which course is that the man who married barefooted is now worth u large prop erty. 1 he story is an absolutely truo one. and may point a moral for hordes of Btout, able bodied men. Drudgo-Mothers And Fine-Lady Daughters. EVERY one blames the fine-lady daughter and pities the poor drudge-mother. The daughter sits in the parlor, in nice clothes and elegantly arranged hair, dawdling over a novel, or chatting with companions or friends. Her mother is toiling In the kitchen, or fretting her soul In the vain attempt to reduce her pile of " mending," and at the same time look after a tumbling baby. The mother's face is worn and thin Baby has pulled her hair askew. She still wears the old dress that she put on in BticU a hurry at half-past live in the morning, when baby woke her from a weary sleep. She is tired I She ia always tired She Is tired on Saturday, and she is tired on Sunday; she is tired in the morning, and tired in the evening ; she goes to bed and gets up tired. It is hard to be angry with the daugh ter, we confess. She can look up In her exhausted mother's face, and know how much work there is to he done, and nev er willingly put forth a band to help her. Nay, she is going out to tea this evening, and will come to her mother to have her dress adjusted for the great occasion. She casts much of the burden of her existence upon the too generous heart that she does not appreciate, and never once feels the impulse to give the aid of her youthful strength. In all our modern world there ia not an uglier Bight than this, no, not one. It is but natural to throw the blame of i upon the daughter. "Heartless wretch I "we have heard such a girl called by indignant acquaintances. She is to be pitied, rather. When she was a little child, all lovely and engag Ing, her mother said to herself, " She shall not be the drudge I was. She shall not be kept out of school to do housework, as I was. She shall have a good time while she la young, for there's no knowing what her lot will be after ward." And bo her mother made her young life a long banquet of delights. Rough places were made 6mooth for her ; all difficulties were removed from her path. The lesson taught her every hour for vears and vears was that it was no great matter what other people suffered, if only her mother's daughter had a good time. She learned that lesson thoroughly and a frightful selfishness was developed in ner. ' Her eves may fall upon these lines, If so. we tell her that people iu general will make no allowance for the faults of her bringing up. They will merely say " See what a shocking and shameful re turn she makes for her mother's indul gent aud genreous care." Youth'! Com. pamoii. jypSSER & ALLEN CENTRAL STORE NEWPORT, PENN'A. Now offer the public A. HARK AND ELEQANT ASSORTMENT OK DRESS GOODS Consisting st all shades unliable for the imioi II LA CK ALP A CCA S AND Mourning Goods A SPECIALITY. BLEACHED AND UNBLEACHED MUSLINS, AT VARIOUS PRICES. AN RXIJf.KStf SELECTION OF PRINTS' We sell and do keep a good quality ot SUGARS, COFFEES & SYRUPS And everything under the head of GROCERIES ! Machine Needles and nil for all makes or Maownes. Ti be convinced that our goods are CHEAP AS THE CHEAPEST, 19 TO CAM, AND EXAMINE STOCK. No trouble to show Roods. Don't torget the CENTRAL STORE, Newport, Perry County, Pa. JjLOOMFIELD ACADEMY. 1 lie next remimr term of this Intftii(lnn gin MAKCH 2!ith, lsso. ! ii ii preparation, classical orotlicrwlie. Is given for any college inalo or female either tor Fresh man or Sophomore year. a inorouen course is provided tor teachers, and the option isclven of seiectinii one or two or tl higher studies. Prof. J. O. Miller will have charge of tbo Pen manship and business courses. music, Drawing and minting. Philosophical and Chemical annmsttn for the study of the Natural Sciences, Literary 8oclcty, Library. students are at all times under the supervision of the Principal and their progress and conduct iiuicuiMi lorn wflcK I y repons. Dimming, ii in aavance, ji.ou per ween, other wise, 12.75; Tuition from 60 cents to tl.W per week. In cf ranee. For further tninrmatinn, address. J. K. FLICKING KK, A. 15., Principal, or Wm. Oiiifr, Proprietor. 9 2m. New Bloomlteld.Fa. SELLERS' COUGII SYRUP t 50 Years Iieforo the Public I Pronounced by all to be the most Pieasatt and efficacious remedy now in use, for the enre of Coughs, Colds, Croup, Hoarseness, Tickling sensation of the Throat, Whooping Congb, etc. Over a million bottle fold within the last few years. It gives relief wherever used, and has tbe power to Impart benefit that cannot be had from the coogh mixture now in nse. Sold by all Druggists at 25 cents per bottle. SELLERS' LIVER PILLS are also highly recommended for coring liver complaint, constipation, slck-hcadaches, fever and ague, and all diseases of the stomach and liver. Sold'by all by all Druggists at 25 cents per box. 40 ly ' R. E. SELLERS & CO., Pittsburg, Pa. J. K. Girtih. J. H. GlETM J. M. GIRVIN & SON., FLOUR, GRAIN, SEED & PRODUCE Commission Merchants, No. 64 Sooth Gay, St., BALTIMORE, MD. We will pay strict attention to tlie sale ef all kinds of Country Produce and remit the amounts promptly. 45 lyr. J. M. GIRVIN A SON. ESTATE NOTICE. Notice Is hereby glv en. that Letters of Administration on the estate of David Ueib, late of Marysviile. Perry county, Pa .deceased, have been granted to the undersigned, residing In the same plase. All persons Indebted to said estate are requested to make payment, and those bavin i claims will present them duly authenticated to the under lined for settlement without delay. HAML'KLO. (JKIB, Admlnstrator. March le.lsttu. Cuas. H. smilst, AtVy N EW. WAGON SHOP. T1IK undersigned htvtng opened a WHEELWRIGHT SHOP. NEW BLOOMFT LD, are now prepared todo any kind ot work In their line, in any style, at prices which cannot fait to give satisfaction. Carriages of ail styles built and all work will be warranted. 8TOUFFXR CRIST. . New Bloomtteld, April 23, ISl.
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