TllE TIMES, NEW BLOOM FIELD, l'A JULY 20, 1880.
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RAILROADS.
PHILADELPHIA AND READING R.R.
ARKANOKMBNT OF r A8SfiNOEKTHAIN8
MAY 10th, 1880.
' Trains Leave Harrlsburg as Follows t
For New York via Allantown, al M, 808 a. m.
For' New "or via Philadelphia and "Bound
, brook Kouta," 8.4o,tFest Kxp.) 8.SS a. m. aud
" ifiroliRh ear arrives In New York at 1 J hoon.
, For Philadelphia, at Mo. 6.4ii (Fast Kxp) 8.06,
(tlirouBh oar), 5.50 a. in., 1.4ft and 4.UU p. in.
. ForReadlnK.atrUo.MlHFast Kxp.) 8.08, 9.80
p. m., and via Schuylkill and Husqueliaiiua
branch at.40 p. m. For Auburn, at B..W a. In.
For Alleutown, at MB, 8 Oft, S.W a. m., 1 46 and
4 "The MS, s.0Sa. m. and 1.4s p. m. tralna have
through cars for New Vork, via Allentowu.
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For New York, at S.20 a. m.
For Alleutown anil Way HI al Inns, at S.20 a. in.
For Heading, l'hlklvlapliia, and Way OtallniiR,
at 1.46 p. in.
Trains Leave Tor Harrlsburg as Follows I
Leave New York via Allentowu, 8 45 a. m . 1.00
"Leave fi'ew'York via "Bound Brook Rout. "and
Philadelphia at 7.4 a, in., !.; and 4.WI p. in., ar
rlvlna at tlanlnnuiK, l.firt, 8.20 i. in., and U wp.m.
l'lirouuli oar. New York to llaiTlnlmra.
lave enlliitlelphla, att).46a. in., 4.00 mid 6.50
(Fast Kxp) and 7 44 p. in.
Leave Poilnvllle. Duo. 0,1" a. m. and 4.40 p. in.
Leave Heading at 4.50, 7.i",ll.ft0a. in., I.8, 11.15,
7.45 and lo.:i5p. m.
Leave Pottsvllle vlaSchuylklll ami SiwiiioliKiiua
Bianoh, S.'ii a. in.
Leave Alleutown at 5.E0, 9 03 a. m., 12.10, 4.S0,
and 0.06 p. in.
SUNDAYS:
Leave New York, at S 30 p. in.
Leave Philadelphia, at 7.45 p. in.
Leave Heading, at 7.85 a. in. and 10.85 p. m.
Leave Allentowu. at tt.05 p. ru.
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Captain Todd Courts a Widow.
AOU see, Dr. Uragg," observed
X OptAtn Toilil, " I want a regu
lar cllppcr-bullt lions. I don't want
sllirneas and breadth of beam so much
as I want a good clean run. I want a
boss to show oft wllh, ye see."
" Well, sir," said the doctor, patting
on the neck a vicious looking animal
which he held by the bridle, "If you
want a smart horse I can't recommend
a better animal than this. J ust look at
those heels. 1111 Don't go too near
'em. As I told you, I've three horses
that I want to sell, but if you want a
horse thnt will Ro, this mare Is Just
the beast for you."
" You see," said the captain confldeu.
tlally, "I don't know much about
bosses. I'm a seafaring man. Follow
ed the sea, man and boy, nigh thirty
five years. Now I'm goln' to settle
down on shore an' I'm looking around
for a wife. I don't mind telling you I'm
sorter courtln' the Widow Ilunn. Now,
the widow is mighty fond of a good fast
horse, an' there's another feller, Bam
IUIbs perhaps you know him that's
Bhlnln' round the widow, too. Ham's
got a first rate horse and takes the wid
ow to ride a good deal. Now if I don't
get somethltig belter than Barn's got 1
won't stand any show, for the widow
will be sure to ride most with the man
that's got the fastest horse, don't you
see?"
The doctor nodded offlrmatlvely. " I
see," he said, "I see. Well, I think
the mare will suit you. She's a know
ing beast. Just see how her cars are
laid back listening. If you find her
getting lazy, just touch her up with the
whip, and she'll climb, I can tell you."
"Well," said the Captain, " if she's
all that you say Bhe Is, bring her around
to-night and turn her Into my pasture
and to-morrow I'll hitch her up iu my
new buggy and give her a trial."
The next afternoon captain Todd ran
his bright new wagon out of the barn,
and throwing a halter over his arm
summoned Bill Tyke and proceeded to
the pasture where the doctor had left
the mare the previous evening.
BUI Tyke was the captain's right
hand man. lie had sailed with the
captain all his life and now that the
former had retired from active duty
BUI had retired with him and under
taken to learn the art of farming. In
appearance he was much like what the
Immortal Bunsby might have been and
he was not much the inferior of that
worthy In taciturnity or oracular wis
dom. The captain and his factotum cir
cumnavigated the . pasture and " bore
down" upon the mare persuasively
from the windward. But that Intelli
gent animal saw them coming and
flattened her ears. The captain wob
almost. within . reach when she threw
up her head, changed ends aud can
tered away to the other end of the
field.
The captain swore a round outh and
divided his forces. Bill Tyke was sent
to coast Cautiously around the fence
while the captain lay "off and on" in
the offing. But It was a game that the
mare understood best. Bhe trotted leis
urely around the pasture, keeping tan
tallzlngly out of reach and resisting all
the blandishments ' offered her in the
shape of wheedling words and ears of
corn.
The captain and Tyke both fell to
swearing and followed the beast around
for an hour. At last, with consummate
generalship, they suooeeded In cornering
her, aud as she tried to rush between
them both sprang at her mane.
The captain was successful and hung
on like grim death, but Bill Tyke failed
to secure a satisfactory grip, and was
kicked head over heels Into a blackberry
bush, whence he emerged torn, bleeding
and swearing worse than ever. As for
the captain he was dragged for a hun
dred yards or more before be managed
to "board" the beast, but at last he
found himself on her back, tearing
across the pasture and bounding a foot
in the air every jump. The mare went
straight for the bars, went over them,
and finally came to a halt In the cap
tain's dooryard. The captain slipped
off In an exhausted condition, and
had his Dew purchase driven into the
barn.
The operation of harnessing was one
requiring all the seamanship of both the
captain and Bill Tyke to successfully
perform. The uses of the various straps
buckles and " bclaylDg pins" were the
subject of several animated 'discussions
before the harness was finally adjusted.
When all was complete, Bill Tyke cruis
ed around the wagon several times and
observed that the " darned thing looked
all right anyhow." .
" Then," said the captain, "just put
that old boat anchor, into the buggy,
wuh about three fathoms of stout line
an1 you git In behind. Darn ye,' he
continued, addressing the mare, ' If ye
play a trick like that again, I'll fix ye,
now mind."
Bill marched orl to-, the tool house
and returned, carrying an Iron keelock
and a coll of Inch manlllu rope. To
one end of this Hue he fastened the
anchor. The other, by the captain's
direction, he tied by a double hitch to
the rear axle of the wagon.
"Now," said the captain, "Jump In
Bill. I'll make the old vixen hum
when we get the widow in."
To the Captain's great delight the
widow was at home, and surveyed his
new turnout with admiration. The
harness she thought, looked somewhat
peculiar, but she dldu't know much
about such things. Of course she
would go to ride. How kind of the
captain I and what a beautiful horse he
has!"
Bhe was not long In getting ready,
for expedition at such times was one of
the widow's many virtues. The cap.
tain helped her In, and the mare trotted
placidly off, while Bill Tyke sat behind,
with his legs hanging over the 'stern'
of the wagon.
It wbb a delightful drive. The mare's
head was turned away from home, and
she behaved herself much better than
the captain had expected. The sun was
setting as they turned to go home, and
as the evening shadows begau to full,
the captain begaln to grow tender.
Gradually bis arm slipped about the
widow's waist. Promptly she removed
It.
" Captain Todd," she exclaimed you
must not, I cannot allow It."
Bhe glanced backward at Bill Tyke,
who still sat, dangling his heels over
the tall-board, hi blissful unconscious
ness. "O, don't mind him," said the cap
tain. "He don't see nothing."
" It isn't that," said the widow blush
ing, " but I suppose I ought to tell
you iu fact I don't know that I ought
to have come to ride with you at all
because because "
" Cause what V" asked the captain.
" Because sir, I'm engaged to be mar
ried." "Engaged!" roared the captain.
" Blast my topllghts ! Who to?"
" Samuel Bliss."
"Heavens and earth!" yelled the
captain, giving the mare a savage cut
with the whip ; but he had no more op
portunity to add more, for the mare
made a bolt as though about to jump out
of her skin, and tore along the road like
mad. The widow Bhrieked and grasped
the captain's arm.
" Oh don't ! don't 1" she cried.
" Let her rip 1" exclaimed the captain
more forcibly than politely. " I want
to get home. Engaged to Bam Bliss !
Qood Lord !
. The captain gave the mare another
slash with the whip, and Bill Tyke got
up on his knees and held on for dear
life. It was getting dark rapidly. The
road was full of deep holes, and the side
of the road was bordered with clumps of
bushes and large rooks, over some of
which the carriage bounced and bound
ed like a rubber ball. The mare had it
all her own way now, for she had the
bit between her teeth, and was on a dead
run.
" Hold her up, cap'n ; hold her up,"
exclaimed Bill Tyke, In evident alarm,
" port your helium, an' lay to."
" Hold up your grandmother," replied
the captain savagely. " I can't hold
her any more than I could hold a three
masted schooner in a hurricane."
The widow relieved herself of a series
of piercing screams and threw her arms
around the captain's neck.
"I shall be killed 1 she cried. "Oh,
captain, dear captain I For heaven's
sake do stop the horse, and let me get
out."
Captain Todd gave a quick jerk to
the reins. The bridle gave way, and
both he and she went over backward In
the bottom of the wagon. The mare
Increased her speed If that was possible,
and the occupants of the vehicle devoted
all their attention to keeping on board
the craft, which touched the ground ap
parently about once in fifty feet.
The Captain surmised that the mare
would make straight for Dr. Bragg 's
corn-crib, and If the wagon held togeth
er long enough that they might hope to
come to a halt there, though as for stop
ping right side up it was hardly to be
hoped for. The mare was not that kind
of a horse.
" We're almost. to the long hill,"
shouted Bill Tyke.
" The road thus far had been straight
but at the foot of the hill was the lane
that led to the doctor's barn, and the
captain surmised that at their present
rate of speed the entire party would get
out about the time the mare turned the
corner. .
The captain extricated himself from
the widow's petticoats and threw his
arm around the wagon seat.
" All hands on deck t" he shouted.
"Ay, ay, sir, responded Bill Tyke.
" Let go the anchor !" screamed the
captain. ; ,,
Bill Tyke raised the keelock in bis
arms and flung it overboard. It bound
ed along the road from side to side for
a few yards and caught under a lurge
.rock , among the bushes. The mare
dashed headlong onward; the stout rope
straightened j scoend; there was a
crash like the report of a cannon i the
mare fell foreward on Jier knees tear
ing up the ground as she went; while
the widow, the captain and Bill Tyke
shot up Into the air about six feet and
alighted in a seml-uncousclous condition
amid the wreck and debris of what had
been the wagon.
It was the end of Captain Todd'
courtship. The wagon was an indistin
guishable mass of kindling wood 1 the
mare had broken both forelegs and re
quired to be shot, and the widow kept
her bed for three weeks Bfterward. The
captain again follows the sea, for as be
often remarks to his first mate :
" The sea, BUI, Is our proper' spear.
We know more about eulllu' vessels
than we do about drlvln' hosses."
"Bpeak for yourself Cap'n," BUI al
ways replies. "At my end of the wag
on I did my dooty,"
Got Their Clothes Mixed,
Mark Twain, in his new book, called,
" Tramps Abroad," tells how a party of
tourists got wet, and what they did
when they .came back to the hotel :
" We stripped and went to bed, and
sent our clothes down to be baked ; all
the horde of soaked tourists did the
same. The chaos of clothing got mixed
in the kitchen, and there were conse
quences. I did not get back the Bnme
drawers I sent down, when our things
came at 0:15 ; I got a pair on the new
plan. They were merely a pair of long,
white ruffled, cuffed sleeves, hitched to
gether at the top with a band, and they
did not come down to my knees. They
were pretty enough, but they made me
feel like two people, and disconnected at
that. The man must have been an idiot
to get himself up like thut to rough It
in the Bwiss mountains.
The shirt they brought me was short
er than the drawers, and hadn't any
sleeves to it at least it hadn't any more
than Mr. Darwin Could call rudimenta
ry sleeves;, these had edging around
them, but the bosom was ridiculously
plain. The knit silk undershirt they
brought me was on a new plan and was
really a sensible thing ; it opened be
hind and had pockets in it for the
shoulder blades ; but they did not seem
to fit me and I found it a sort of uncom
fortable garment. They gave my bob
tall coat to somebody else and sent me
an ulster suitable for a giraffe. I had to
tie my collar on because there was no
button on the foolish shirt which I de
scribed a little while ago."
A young lady had a present of
a very valuable watch. One day how
ever, it suddenly stopped, and not wish
ing to meddle with it herself, she took
it to a watchmaker to have It repaired.
In a few days she called for It, but it was
not done ; so she said she would come,
again in a day or two. That night she
dreamed that the watchmaker's shop
would be burned next evening ; so early
next morning she asked her sister to
call for the watch, and not leave the
shop without getting it. Her sister said
she was sure it would not be ready.
" No matter," she said ; " get It for me
as it is, done or not Don't come back
without it, for the shop will be burned
this evening ; I saw it all In a dream last
night"
Immediately after breakfast her sister
went for the watch, but was told that it
was not yet mended.
" How long will It take to do' it V" she
asked.
" About an hour," the man answer
ed. " Very well then, I'll wait for it," she
said.
So she sat down, and waited patiently
until it was repaired, for her sister was
in a most excited state of mind about it,
and would have been greatly annoyed
had she returned without it.
That evening at seven o'clock the
house took fire, and the flames spread so
rapidly that it was impossible to save
anything ; and had the watch been left
there, it would have been destroyed.
gjrA gentleman residing in a subur
ban town, but well known In business
circles in the city, finding that his other
wise well ordered household was with
out that indispensable article of modern
civilization known as a lemon squeezer,
and having tried for several days, in
vain, to think to bring one out with
him from town, finally directed his man
to remind him of it the following morn
ing before bis departure for the city.
Standing on the door-step, after break
fast, the next day, and just as he was
about to bid his wife his usual affection
ate farewell, he heard, in stentorian
tones from the region of the barn, the
words, "Squeezer, sir!" Perhaps it
was well for the faithful domestio that
bis employer bad just time enough to
catch the train, but it is needless to add
'that there is now a lemon-squeezer of
the latest pattern in the house.
IST Bore eyes, tetter, salt rheum, &c,
are cured by "Dr. Llndsey'a Blood
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8UND.V3T READIN3.
Procrastination.
" Procrastination is the thief of time."
This we all know, not only by observa
tion, but by experience. The tendency
to put off till to-morrow what we might
do to-day Is one which we should fight
against and strive to overcome, for it Is '
an evil whose effects are so visibly seen
not In the present but in the future also.
To-morrow we say we will do what, if
we would only act as we ought, we
would be done to-day.
The poor drunkard sometimes thinks,
" after this week I will drink no more;'
but how does it end V Next Week Is the
same thing ; and so time goes on, and
the drunkard goes to fill a drunkard's
grave and to his final account, the vic
tim of procrastination and his own ap
petite. Men keep on putting off the salvation
of their souls in the same way, " Next
year, when I have mode more money,
and the press of business is not so great
I will think of my soul ; for the present
the body and this world's good's are my
care." Next year passes, and the next
finds him drifting with the tide of
worldllness, further off from bis salva
tion than ever. They have deliberately
and of their own free will refused the
best gift ever offered to man. Death'
comes and the gift Is offered no more.
They cast the Jewel behind them think
ing to fl nd 1 1 at some other time. Alas !
their mistake. They procrastlnatedind
what was the end V
Duties should be met, not evaded ;
taken up and borne at the present, not
put off till some other time; Clod alone
knows whether there ever will be anoth
er time or not. Lost opportunities nev
er return.
You have a friend sad at heart you
mean to offer your sympathy some time
but in the meantime your friend goes on
his journey alone, bearing a burden
which is well nigh crushing out his life,
uncheckered by even a kind, loving
word from you, because you have put It
off. Shall It be said of us, " He hath
done what he could," or shall it be said,
" Procrastination ruined him V"
' What la Fancy?
It Is strange what phantasies come in
to the brain of one who is dying.
Things never dreamed of before find ex
pression as the last breath ebbs away a
language so simple and beantlful that It
almost seems to flavor of the Incense of
heaven that hovers over the fast-chill-log
form, waiting to bear the soul up
ward. ; Sunday night a little waif an orphan
died In a hovel on the flats. She had
always led an uncouth life, in harmony
with her surroundings. Her father and
mother died years ago the mother bare
ly lived to. hear the little one lisp her
name and yet, Just before she died the
other night, the child turned ber big
dark eyes up to a star that you could see
twinkling through the cracks of the
roof, and exclaimed, as she stretched out
her little hands :
" Oh 1 there's mamma come to get
me!"
The sad tired expression that rested or
her face changed Into Joy and expecta
tion as she gazed upward, and turning
to one of the watchers by her side, she
said :
" Won't you please open the door and
let her in V" "
" Oh, I'm so glad you came, mamma ;
for maybe I couldn't have found you all
alone, for heaven is so big."
Her lips trembled and moved after she
bad ceased speaking, as if she was whis
pering very low to some one, but no
words escaped her until, oa her face grew
paler, she clasped her bands tighter and
sobbed :
" Is that it over there, mamma ? And
is that God V"
Then the tiny hands relaxed their hold
upon the imaginary form they embrac
ed, her eyes opened slowly, and the lit
tle one was dead. Who can tell if it
was a fancied spirit that came to meet
her? Perhaps itwaa; it might have
been a phantasy that came with the
dead cloud ; and then again perhaps the
eyes of her Inner soul were opened that
she might catch a glimpse of what lies
beyond us Over There in the Land, of
the Beal.
Hints.
Don't complain of the selfishaese of
the world. Deserve friends and you
will get them. . The world is teeming
with kind-hearted people ; and you have
to carry a kind, sympathetic heart in
your bosom to call out goodness and
friendliness from others. It la a mistake
to expect to receive welcome, hospitality
words of cheer and help over rugged
passes In life, In return for cold selfish
ness which cares for . nothing in the
world but self. Cultivate consideration
for the feelings of other people if you
would never have your own Injured.
Thoae who complain most of IU usage
are the ones who abuM themselves and
others the oftenest.