TILE TIMES,
RAILROADS.
PHILADELPHIA AND READING R.R
ARRANGEMENT OF PAB8ENGEK TRAINS
NOVEMBEttTiUi, 1880.
Tratuii Leave Barristers; as FelUws i
for New York via Allentown, at 109 a. m.
and 1 .45 p. m. . .. .
For New fork via Philadelphia and "Bound
Breok Route," tt.to, s.H5 a. in. and 1.4ft p. m.
For Philadelphia, at tUO, S.Oft, (through oar),
9.50 a. in., 1.45 and 4.IW p. m. ,...
For Reading, at 6.U0, S.bo, 9.80a. Bi., 1.45, 4.00,
and .w p. m. ... . . .
Kor Pottavllle. ate.00. 05, 9.50 a.m. aid 4.01
p. m., and via Schuylkill and Susquehanna
Branch at 2.40 p. m. For Auburn, at b.ao a. m.
For Alleutown.ate.WP, 05, 9.00 a. m., 1.46 an
'"The "'.'on a. m. and 1.45 p. m.'tratns hav
through cars (or New Voik, via Allentown.
BONDAYB I
For Allentown and Way Stations, at 00 a. m.
For Ke-tdlng, I'liltdelanhla, and Way Blatlaas,
at 1.45 p. in.
Trains Leave Tor Harrlsburt; as FoIUtts I
Leave NewYork via Allentown, 8 f5 a. m . 1.00
'"lmto wVrk via "Bound Brook Route." and
Philadelphia at 7.45 a. m.. 1.30 mid b.ilu p. in., ar
riving at lliurlsouig, 1.60, S.ii0 p. in., and
12ii5ave"Vhll.delphla, at 9.45 a. in., 4.00 and
7.45 p. m. , , , ,
Leave I'ottsvllle.7.00.9,10a. in. and 4.40 p. m.
Leave Heading, at 4.60, 8.00,11.60 a. ia., 1.3i,0.1S,
and 10.35 p. in.
Leave Hottaville via Schuylkill and Susquehanna
Branch, 8.3.ia. m. , , , .
Leave Alleniown, at 8.25, 9.00 a. m., 12.10, 4.S0,
and 9.05 p. in.
SUNDAYS:
Leave New York, at 5 30 p. in.
Leave Philadelphia, at 7.45 p. m.
Leave Heading, at S.iki a. in. and 10.35 p. m.
Leave Allentowu. at 9.05 p. m.
BALDWIN BRANCH.
Leave HARRISBUKO lor Paxton, Lochlel and
Hteelton dully, except Sunday, at 6.25. B.40, 9.35
a. m., and 2.00 p. m i dally, except Saturday and
Sunday, at 6.45 p. in., aud on Saturday only, 4.45,
6.10, 9.30 p. m.
Returning, leave STRELTON dally, except
Snnday.at 6.10,7.00, 10.00a. in.. 2 20 p. ni.i dai'y,
except Saturday and Sunday, 0 lo p. m., and on
Baturday only 6.10, 6.30. 9,5u p. m.
J. E. WOOTTEN, Gen. Manager.
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Puzzle Notes.
"The Labyrinth," in the "Sunday Evening
Journal" of New York City, Is under the able
management of "Stud." It Is an excellont
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being the offering of expensive prizes and lots
of them. "Stud" knows how to edit a puzzle
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cle paper, it can not help but prove a succes.
The "Mystic Knight" bas entered its fifth
volume, and is better than ever. "Nutmeg"
deserves praise In the way In which he fights
the "Great Quack." If all "Nutmeg" says is
true, and we have no reason to doubt blra.then
the sooner the "Dom" refuses to support and
contribute to "Goose Quill's" department, the
better for the Dom. .
Skinner's Mistake.
He Kaew More About Gospel Than About
Garters.
IT IS not possible to permit It to paee
unmeatloned. When aa Incident of
unique Interest and far-reaching impor
tance happens, a newspaper is compell
ed to take nvtice of it. After all this is a
world, where we must constantly sacri
fice oureelvee for others,and why should
the journalist shrink from uy duty,
however painful It may be V
The troglc vent to which reference
has just been made could not have occur
red in those earlier days when metal had
not yet been used for in short, for one
of the purposes which It now serves.
It is the opinion of all archteoioglsts
that the primitive or we might say the
earliest form of the true that Is to say,
the sex at first used a simple string.
Within histories times strips of cloth of
about an inch In width have been very
commonly used. Prof. Huxley has In
possession a pair made of gray "listing,"
if that is the proper scientific- term,
which wera found in a : remote York
shire village, and which are believed to
be not more than fifty years old. Mr.
Darwin also has a single one made of a
strip of black velvet, which he thinks
belongs to a later stage of development
than the pair in Prof. Huxley's posses,
slon, and which was found near Balls
bury Plain, and may have been the
property of the daughter of the famous
shepherd thereof. The use of elastic web
bing, made of blue or red silk woven
over a central core of Indian rubber,
ia comparatively recent ; and it is asser.
ted by authorities which demand our
respect that this material Is still verv
widely used. Of course, statistics on this
subject can be collected, if at all, with
the greatest dlflculty, and were it not
for the fact that quantities of this elas
tlo webbing are annually manufactured
and sold we should be totally unable to
prove that it is in active ubc. Evidence
collected in connection with the upset
Ing of carriages is to the last degree un
trustworthy, since in such moments the
witness is almost sure to be laboring under
more or less excitement. Still, we may
assume that within the last ten years
the elastic; material in question has been
in very general use, and that the intro
tuction of metallic spiral bands, whether
ellverplated or plain, has not yet super
seded it.
Mr. Skinner was, of course, totally ig
norant of the whole subject. He was a
Methodist divinity student, and, in all
probability, he had never dreamed that
Buch an article existed. Beyond any
question he was unaware that metal was
used in its manufacture, and there is
not the least reason for doubting his
solemn assertion that prior to the recent
tragedy, he had never laid his eyes on a
pair made of silver-plaited spiral wire.
Nearly all the people of Brewster Centre,
where he has resided so many years,
believed his assertion, and hold that he
is entirely incapable of prevarication, or
of the greater crime with which he has
so unhappily been charge.
Mr. Skinner, as is notorious, was en
gaged to be married to the daughter of
the leading cooper of BrewBter Centre,
and he made his first visit to New York
early last week. It was while walking
down the Sixth-avenue that his eye fell
upon a silver-plated pair exposed for
sale in a shop window, and marked
"only fifty cents." Mr. Skinner
thought that this was an exceptional op
portunity for buying a pair of beautiful
bracelets for his betrothed at a very
cheap rate. The fact that the Bhop did
not appear to be a jeweler's Bhop, but
was devoted apparently lo the .sale of
ladies' clothing, gave him additional
reason to imagine that the pair were
much cheaper than they would have
been at Tiffany's or elsewhere. He en
tered the shop, and finding another
pair precisely similar lying on the
counter, he took them up and asked the
young woman behind the counter their
price. Finding that they were only
fifty cents, he examined them carefully,
and asked if they were large enough to
fit a rather stout young lady in Ver
mont. The shop-girl smiled and replied
that they certainly were not too small
for any New England lady. Then Mr.
Skinner asked if she would kindly put
one on and let him see how it looked.
To his utter amazement, the young
woman called in a frightened tone upon
"George," a large man In the rear of
the store, and informed him that this
villain meaning the meek and inno
cent Skinner" was insulting her."
" George," who was evidently a practic
al man, first required Mr. Skinner to
pay for the articles, and then, without
giving him the slightest chance for ex
planation, kicked him into the street.
Mr. Skinner satisfied himslf that both
the young woman and " George" were
either drunk or crazy, and as he
wished to leave town that day, he fore
bore to appeal for justice to the police.
Returning to Brewster Centre, be hast
ened to call on the daughter of the coop
er. Usually he was not anxious to meet
the cooper himself; for, though that
respectable person was well meaning in
his way, he was quick tempered and
muscular, and as such was not a pleas
ant companion for the modest and pul
monary divinity student. On this oc
casion be was, however glad to have an
opportunity to show the cooper his gen
erosity, and he therefore mentioned that
he had brought the daughter a present
of a pair of bracelets from the city.
The young lady was delighted, and
waited anxiously while Mr. Skinner un
did the string and opened the box.
"There! Sarah Ann!" he exclaimed,
as he exhibited the articles.
"Those are what I call handsome,
and I want you to let me put them on
with my own hands this very minute."
In his subsequent description, Mr.
Skinner asserts that he thought at the
time that the world had come to an end.
Miss Sarah Ann had answered his In
nocent and affectionate petition with a
loud shriek and a violent slap across his
left cheek. Then the cooper joined in
and remarked that it " did seem to him
that these parsons had just gone clean
crazy," took Mr. Skinner by the nape
of the neck, and after shaking him
with awful energy, " tired him out,"
as young Master Robinson, who wit
nessed Mr. Skinner in the act of being
shot out the front door, afterward
said. Bruised in body and dazed as to
mind, Mr. Skinner sought his boarding
house and his bed, where, in the course
of the day, he learned that, according to
popular rumor, he had grossly insulted
Miss Sarah Ann, and that the public
opinion was divided as to whether ha
was drunk or insane. At any rate his
engagement was broken off and his
reputation was ruined. He has since
disappeared from Brewster Centre, and
fears are entertained that he has commit
ted suicide.
This sad event was unquestionably
due to the Introduction of steel spiral
springs aa a substitute for elastlo web
bing. Mr. Skinner honestly supposed
he was buying a pair of bracelets, and
his mistake was not an unnatural one.
He knew nothing of the real nature of
the supposed bracelets, and had he been
informed that they were we should
Bay bad he known what they were he
would sooner have died than have touch
ed them, and would have preferred the
rack or the stocks to the commission of
so horrible an offence as the open and
public offering of them to Miss Sarah
Ann.
Bricktop's Bee. Story.
I HAD an improved back yard. I
went through a seed store and bought
a sample of everything that would grow
in this climate. The result was a per
fect tangle of flowers and things, from
the overgrown sunflower to a forget-me-not.
Mrs. Brlcktop Is very proud of our
garden, and while gushing over it the
other morning, a happy thought work
ed its way under her back hair : " What
a delightful thing It would be to have a
hive of bees, and raise our own honey,
as well a everything else!" I have
always thought that woman inspired
ever since she convinced me that I
couldn't do better that to marry her.
This was an original, bold idea ; a hap
py thought. I promised her a hive of
bees, and went to business with a light
er heart, and firmer belief in the gen
uineness of home comforts and amuse
ments. .
I bought a hive of honey-bees and
brought U home wltn me that very
night. It was one of those patent hy
drostatic, back-action hives, in which
the bees have peculiar accommodations
and all the modern improvements. It
was a nice little hive, none of your old
fashioned barn-sized affairs. It even
had windows in It, so that the bees could
look out and see what was going on,
and enjoy themselves. Both myself
and Mrs. B. were delighted ; and before
dark I arranged the stand for the hive
in the garden, and opened the bay
windows so that the bees could take an
early start and get to business by sun
rise next morniDR. Mrs. B. called me
honey several times during the evening;
and such sweet dreams as we had !
We Intended to be up early next
morning to see how our little birds
took to our flowers ; but a good
half-hour before we probably should
have done so we were awakened by the
unearthly yells of a cat. Mrs. B. leaped
from her downy conch, exclaiming,
" What can be the matter with our
yellow Billy V" The yells of anguish
convinced us that something more than
ordinary was the matter with him, and
so we hurried into our toilets. We
rushed into our back yard, and, oh,
what a sight met our astonished gaze !
The sight consisted of yellow cat that
appeared to be doing its best to make a
bln-wbeel of itself. He was rolling
over and over In the grass, bounding up
and down, anon darting through the
bushes and foliage, standing on his
head, and then trying to drive his tail
into the ground, and all the while keep
ing up the most confounded yowling
that was ever heard.
"The cat is mad," said Mrs. B. af
frighted.
" Why shouldn't he be ? the bees are
stinging him," said I, comprehending
the trouble. Mrs. B. flew to the rescue
of her cat, and the cat flew at her. So
did the bees. One of them drove his
drill into her nose, another vaccinated
her on the chin, while another began to
lay out his work near her eye. Then
she howled, and began to act almost as
bad as the cat. It was quite an animated
scene. She cried murder, and the
neighbors looked out from their back
windows and cried out for the police,
and asked where the fire was. This be
ing a trifle too much, I threw a towel
over my head and rushed to her rescue.
In doing so, I ran over and -knocked
her down, trod upon the cat, and made
matters no better. Mrs. B. is no child
on a wrestle, and she soon bad me un
der her, and was tenderly stamping
dowu the garden-walk with my head,
using my ears for bandies. Then I yell
ed, and some of the bees came to her as
sistance, aud stung me all over the
face.' '
I the mean time the neighbors were
shouting, and getting awfully excited
over the show, while our servant, sup
posing us fighting, opened the basement
door and admitted a policeman, who at
once proceeded to go between man and
wife. The bees hadn't got at Mrs. 11. 's
tongue yet, and she proceeded to show
he policeman that I hid abused her in
the most shameful manner, and that I
bad bought a hive of bees on purpose to
torment her into the grave. I tried to
explain ; but just then a bee stung the
officer on the nose, and be understood it
all in less than a minute. He got mad
and actually lost his temper. He lub-
hls nose aud did some official cussing.
But as this didn't help matters any, he
drew his club and proceeded to demolish
that patent bee-hire. The bees failed to
recognize his badge of office, and just
swarmed on him. They stung him
wherever he had no clothing, and in
some places where he did have it.
Then he howled, and commenced act
ing after the manner of the cat and its
mistress. He rolled on the ground for
a moment and then got up and made for
the street, shouting "Are." Then the
bees turned to the people who had climb
ed upon the fence to see the fun. Then
they had some fun. Windows went
down, and some of the neighbors aeted
as though they thought a twenty-inch
shell was about to explode.
By this time a fire-engine had arrived,
and a line of hose was taken through
the house into the back yard. One of
the hosemen asked where the fire was ;
but just then one of the bees bit him
behind the ear, and he knew. They
turned a stream upon that half-wrecked
bee-hive, and began to " play away"
with one hand and fight bees with the
other. But the water had the desired
effect, and those bees were soon among
the things that were. A terrible crowd
had gathered in the mean time In front
of the house, but a large portiou of it
followed the flying policeman, who was
rubbing bis affected parts, and making
tracks for the station-house and a sur
geon. This little adventure somehow damp
ened our enthusiasm regarding the de
light of making our own honey.
During the next week we wore milk-and-water
poultices pretty ardently, but
not a word was Said about honey ; and'
now Mrs. B. has gone to stay a week
with her mother, leaving me and the
convalescent cat and the tickled neigh
bors to enjoy our own felicity.
SUNDAY E2ALI1T3,
The Care of God.
" Do you see this lock of hair '"
said
an old man to me.
" Yes ; but what is It V It is, I suppose
the curl from the head of a dear child
long since gone to God."
" It is not. It Is a lock of my own
hair; and it is near seventy years since
it was cut from this head."
" But why do you prize a lock of
your own hair so much K"
"It has a story belonging to it a
strange one. I keep it thus with care
because It speaks to me more of God,
and of His special care, than anything
else I possess.
"I was a little child, four years old,
with loDg, curly locks which, in sun,
wind or rain, hung down my cheeks
uncovered. One day my father went
into the woods to cut up a log, and I
went with him. I was standing a little
behind him, or rather at his side, watch
ing with interest the stroke of the heavy
axe, as it went up and came down on
the wood, sending splinters iu all di
rections at every stroke. Some of the
splinters fell at my feet, and I eagerly
stooped to pick them up. In doing so I
stumbled forward, and in a moment my
curly head lay upon the log. I had fall
en just at the moment the axe was com
ing down with all its force. It was too
late to stop the blow. Down came the
axe. I screamed, and my father fell to
the ground In terror. He could not stay
the stroke, and in the blindness which
the sudden horror caused be thought he
had killed his boy. We soon recovered
I from my fright, and he from his
terror. He caught me in his arms and
looked at me from head to foot, to find
out the deadly wound which he was
sure be had inflicted. Not a drop of
blood nor a scar was to be seeu. He
knelt upon the grass and gave thanks to
a gracious God. Having done so, he
took up the axe and found a few hairs
upon its edge. He turned to the log he
had been splitting, and there waa a
single curl of his boy's hair sharply cut
through and laid upon the wood. How
great the escape ! It was as if an angel
bad turned aside the edge at the moment
it was descending upon my bead.
" That lock he kept all his days, as a
memorial of God's care and love. That
lock be left to me on his death bed. I
keep it with care. It tells me of my
father's God and mine. It rebukes my
unbelief and alarm. It bids me trust
him forever. I have had many tokens
of fatherly love in my threescore years
and ten, but some how this speaks most
to my heart. It is the oldest and per
haps the most striking. It used to speak
to my father's heart; it now speaks to
mine."