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THE TIMES NEW BLOOM FIELD, l'A., MAY 10, 1881,
the tangled mass of lialr flying about
her fuco.
' Now for the ferns," snld Deli, after
reallng fur a few minutes.
And oir she ran, now gathering a fine
fernjUiid now rejecting it for a finer
fine, and going Into transports of delight
over each new discovery.
" What beautiful moss on that old
log!" suddenly exclaimed Deb. "I'll
have some of it !"
And oir she ran toward the log, and
was kneeling clown beside It, when,
without a moment's warning, except a
faint crackling of breaking logs, down
went Deb, disappearing so suddenly
and noiselessly from mortal view that
the ground seemed to have opened and
swallowed her up, which it really had
ione, since she had fallen into an opeii
ing in the earth, which had been made
years before by some parties who were
prospecting for coal on the bind', and
the logs and boards with which they
had eovered the treacherous hole had
become so decayed and rotten,and withal
so moss-grown, that they hid from view
the trap under them, and Deb's hundred
and twenty pounds avoirdupois had
been too much for the weak timbers,
and down, she went Into a hole at least
twenty feet deep, iu about twelve inches
of water.
She was slightly stunned, but not in
the least injured, the boards and logs
under her having lessened the force of
her descent, but the pretty white apron
and cleau dress were sadly smeared with
the dirty, stagnant water that had
splashed up alt around and over her,
and one of her pretty "Oxford ties" was
missing, and was lying at the bottom of
the pit in mud and water.
Deb's first move was to get out of the
water; and, fortunately for her, she
succeeded in getting on a log that had
fallen in such shape that one end was
above the water. Bhe saw that it was
utterly impossible to get out of the pit
without assistance from abave, and
when she remembered she had not told
a soul where she was going, and might
have lo remain all night in her uncom
fortable quarters, she felt like crying,
but was too philosophical a young lady
to cry when it could do no earthly good
to do so. ,
And now we will leave Deb to her
own reflections, while we return to Aunt
Nancy, who is wondering why Deb
don't bring her the eggs, but finally
come to the conclusion that she has
failed to find any, and is romping iu the
barn, and therefore goes about her work
unconcerned about her darling's absence,
when, had she known where she was,
we do not think we exaggerate in the
least when we say that she would have
gone at once into hysterics.
Three, four, and five o'clock come and
go, and it is nearly six now, and no
Deb ; when Miss Naucy remarks to
grandma that Deb 1b gone an unusually
long time, and she thinks it possible
that she has fallen asleep under some
tree in the orchard ; she will go and
see.
But neither searching nor loud cries of
" D-e e b," or "Deb.o-r-a-h B-a-a-r-lo w 1 "
brings to light the truant girl, and Miss
Nancy returns to the house slightly
alarmed now, for the Bun is nearly
down, and she feels confident Deb would
not remain willingly away so loug when
there are so many things she intended
doing before night.
As soon as Nathan comes from work
he is told of Deb's unusually lone
absence, and he and MIsb Nancy at once
begin a thorough search of the premises,
all the while calling loudly for Deb ; but
no reply comes to them from barn or
orchard, from garret or cellar, and poor
.Nancy comes to the horrible conclusion
that she has been kidnapped by two
tramps whom she saw pass the house in
the afternoon, which conclusion, having
been reached incapacitates poor Miss
Nancy for doing anything but getting
belli ml the kitchen door with her aprou
over ner neau and sobbing ptteously
while poor grandma takes to her bed in
a paroxysm of grief.
And now it is long after dark, and the
young folks come in, merry and laugh
ing, to the party, and are informed of
Deb's absence, and Miss Nancy's sur
mises, and all the young men provide
hem selves with lanterns and join In
the search, while the young ladies do
all they can to comfort grandma and
Nancy, the latter, however, being quite
inconsolable.
First and foremost in the search is
Tommy Deane, his young mind filled
with fearful forbodlngs, and must I tell
it V his eyes with tears. He seizes a
lantern, and goes out alone, and, by
mere accident, for so excited was he that
he knew not where to go, he goes in the
region of the bluff, vowing fearful ven
geance on the wretches who have stolen
or killed "his Deb," and then and there
consecrating his life to the accomplish,
ment of the aforesaid revenge.
Deb is still sitting on the log, silent
and anxious. She has hallooed herself
quite hoarse, and could scarcely utter a
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souna, wueo sun lmugiues sue nears a
uoite above her head, and, had not her
disordered Imagination construed the
noise into the tread of a bear, she would
have made a desperate efTort to cry out,
and while she is thus perplexed with
doubts and fears, she hears the voice of
Tommy Deane, who, wearied and excit
ed, is seated on a stump at the very
mouth of the pit, and Iu a very dolorous
and romantic toue, indulges in the fol
lowing soliloquy, every word of which
Deb hears :
" Khali I ever see her again, my lost
one! my Deb 5"'
'Yes, Tom, if you can invent some
kind of 'a hoisting apparatus that will
support the weight of a young lady who
weighs one hundred and twenty, you
can again gaze upon your Deb," gasps
out the young lady from the pit, her
doubts and fears all dispelled, and her
love of fun restored at once.
" Why why Deb, where are you V"
cries Tom.
" Twenty feet under ground, in twelve
luches of water, the hungriest victim of
Fate ever heard of. Get me out as quick
as you cau, and I'll promise you faith
fully that I wou't make you marry me,
as the rescued heroines always do in
novels."
But all of Tom's inventive genius can
not devise a method of getting her out
of the pit until her returns to the house
for assistance, and ropes or ladders.
Therefore he leaves Deb his lantern,
which he lowers with a string, and re
turns to the house, meeting a party of
searchers on the road, and together they
return and rescue Deb from the pit;
and she is escorted home iu triumph, on
a hastily constructed platform, borne
on the shoulders of half a dozen young
gallants, which honor, Deb declared,
compensated her for all her distress in
the pit.
As it was nearly midnight before Deb
was found, there could be no party that
night, but Deb promised them that if
they would only return the following
evening she would surely be there to
welcome them, and she was, aud a jolly
time they had; but Deb kept poor
Tommy Deane in an annoying state of
blushing all the evening by eyeing him
in an extremely comical manner, and
occasionally asking him in a sly whisper
if he had found his "lost one" yet; but
fickle girl that she was, she broke her
promise given to Tommy, for she mar
ried that young man Just five years
afterward, and we are therefore enabled
to bring our story to a close in really
novel and romantic style.
Swiftness of Birds on the Wing.
PKOFESSOIl NEWTON considered
that were sea fowls satellites revolv
ing around the earth, their arrival could
hardly be more surely calculated by an
astronomer. Foul weather or fair, hot
or cold, the puffins repair to some of
their stations punctually on a given
day, as if their movements were regu
lated by clock-work. The swiftness of
flight which characterizes most birds
enables them to cover a vast distance in
a brief space of time. The common
black swift can fly 270 miles an hour, a
speed which, if it could be maintained
for less than half a day, would carry the
bird from its winter to its summer quar
ters. The large purple swift of America
is capable of even greater feats on the
wing. The chimney swallow ninety
miles per hour being about the limit of
its power; but the passenger pigeon of
the United States can accomplish a
lourney of 1000 miles between Bunrlse
aud sunset. It is also true, as the in
genious Ilerr Palmen has attempted to
show, that migrants during loug flights
may be directed by an experience partly
inherited and partly acquired by the
individual bird. They often follow the
coast line of the Continent, and invarla
bly take on their passage over the Medi
terranean one of the three routes. But
this they will not explain, how they
pilot themselves across broad oceans
and is invalidated by the fact, familiar
to every ornithologist, that the old and
young birds do not journey in company,
Invariably the young broods travel
together, then come, after another inter
val, the parents, and finally the rear is
brought up by the weakly, Infirm,
moulting and broken-winged. This is
the rule in autumn. The return jour
ney is accomplished in the reversed
order. The distance travelled seems,
moreover, to have no relation to the
traveller. The Swedish blue throat per
forms its maternal functions among the
Laps, and enjoys its winter holidays
among the negroes of theSoudon, while
the tiny, ruby-throated hummingbird
proceeds annually from Mexico to New
foundland and back again, though one
would imagine that so delicate a little
fairy would be more at home among the
cacti and agaves of the Tlerre Callente
than among the firs and fogs of the
north.
t The man who is accused unjustly
can afford to maintain silence, but the
man who is justly accused must make
as great a pother as possible In order to
throw people off the track.
SUNDAY READIN3.
How to be Happy.
Married people would be happier if
home trials were never told to neigh
bors. If they kissed and made up after every
quarrel.
If household expenses were propor
tioned to receipts.
If they tried to be as agreeable as in
courtship days.
If each would try to be a support and
comfort to the other.
If each remembered the other was a
human being, not an angel.
If women were as kind to their hus
bands as they were to their lovers.
If fuel aud provisions were laid In
during the high tide of bu miner work.
If both parties remembered that tuey
married for worse as well as for better.
If men were as thoughtful for their
wives as they were for their sweet
hearts. If there were fewer silk aud velvet
street costumes aud more plain, tidy
house dresses.
If there were fewer " please darlings,"
in public, and more common manners
in private.
If wives and husbands would take
some pleasure as they go along and not
degenerate into mere tolling machines,
ltecrealiou Is necessary to keep the
heart in its place, and to get along with
out it is a big mistake.
If meu would remember that a woman
cau't be always smiling who has to cook
the dinner, answer the door-hell half a
dozen times, aud get rid of a neighbor
who has dropped in, tend to a sickly ba
by, tie up the finger of a two-year-old,
gather up the play-things of a four-year-
old, tie up the head of a six-year-old on
skates., and get an eight-year-old ready
for school, to say nothing of sweeping,
cleaning, etc. A woman with all this
to contend with may claim it as a priv
elege to look and feel a little tired some
times, and a word of sympathy would
nut be too much to expect from the man
who during the honeymoon wouldn't
let her carry as much as a Bun-shade.
So Say We All.
The President of the Limekiln Club
stated that he was in receipt of a com
munlcatlon from St Louis, asking the
club how it stood on the Bob Ingersol
question of Ood or no God. He would
ask Sir Isaao Walpole to answer it for
himelf and all his fellow members. He
was willing to abide by what the good
old man said, and he believed all others
would be.
The white-headed old man, old aud
wrinkled, and burdened with the weight
of seventy years, arose in his seat, look
ed around him and quietly began :
" If dar am nu God, den dar am no
fuchur. When we close our eyes In
death, de bou! dies wid us, an' we moul
der to dust de same as de brutes. It has
been a long journey to me. In my heart
am de mem'ry of wife an' chil'en. My
days have been cloudy an' full of woe,
My nights have been dark an' full of sor
row. I have beeu robbed, cheated,abus
ed, au' made to feel my wretchedness;
but neber, not eveu in de darkest hour
did I doubt dar was a God, nor did I
lose faith in Him. Take away dat faith
to-night make me belleb dat dar am no
heaben tell me dat I won't meet my
poor Chloe, an' de blessed chil'en up dar
'mong de angels, an' you would crush
me down an' break my ole heart. Dat's
all I 'pear to he llbln' for to wait de
Master's call to close de ledger oh life
and go home, home ! I am old, an' poor
an' lowly ; hut here In my breast is a
feelin' dat I wouldn't sell for all de gold
in de world dat all de arguments ob a
million Ingersols could not change; a
feelin' dat poor as I are, an' lowly as I
am.de grave will not be de las' ob me.
During his remarks the hall was qui
et as the grave. When he had finished
it was full a minute before anyone mov
ed, then Brother Gardner softly said
" As says Sir Isaac, so say we all."
A Darkey Preacher's Advice.
" De man dat knows dat he am mean
tricky, dishonest or degraded an' jit
who sots down to wait for any 'tlcular
day on which to vow dat he will do bet
ter, won't be apt to make any change in
his system dat his naburs will notice
Ebery day should be a day for sw'arin
off from whateber am mean or often
slve. Ebery day should be a day for
resolvln' ondoin' a leetle better dan de
day befo'. If you do wrong doan wait
for de special day, but do right at once.
If you feel dat you am mean au' low
lived, doau' lib a day waitln' fur de new
y'ar, but ax some one to kick yer right
ort."
0"Vhen we are iu prosperity we are
ready to think our mountain will never
be brought low, so when we are in ad
versity we are ready to think our valley
will never be filled up.
0"Most men keep on hand a large as
sortment of evils, while their stock of
excellencies is ruinously low.
fon Tim Timkj.
Great Floods In the North-West.
During the last month or mnm. mini
of the North. Western States and Terri
tories nave sustained many heavy losses,
caused by the great floods that have
occurred. Diirlnir the winter the ninnn.
tain sides and plains were covered with
a great mass of enow, and as the snrluir
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iiiicmcu me Biiuueii maws caused the
streams to swell to overflowing. The
heavy ice together with the Immense
seas of water lias done much dumage to
that section of the country. A short
distance below Yankton, the capltol of
iJRKota,tue .Missouri river llows through
a pass between two ridges. Here a great
Ice gorge formed Itself, miles iu length,
appearing as firm as the hills it connect
ed, and caused all that section of the
Territory north of It to become flooded.
Thousands of acres were Inundated and
all through large sections the farmers
lout ail they possessed in this newlv
settled country. The floods became so
great mat a portion or them sought au
outlet across the country to the Big
Sioux river, thirty miles east. All mall
communications with Yankton and
many oilier towns were suspended on
account of all the railroads being under
water. The farmers' cattle were drown
ed, their graneries and the contents
destroyed, farming implements, every
thing except the land itseir. was either
washed away or destroyed. Hundreds
of settlers lost all they had and are now
in great distress. Many of the destitute
farmers and villagers were fed by Gov
ernment rations issued in pursuance of
au order from the President. This relief
was necessarily very temporary aud It
will take a large sum of money and
much time before those ruined homes
can be rebuilt, after the water has re
ceded. Besides those settlers have noth
ing to support themselves with until
their crops can be harvested. Aid has
been solicited and our large cities are
responding liberally by sending money
and provisions. It is feared that all the
submerged grain is a total loss. Enorm
ous floods have beeu reported all over
that part of the country. Iowa, Minne
sota and portions of Nebraska, Illinois
and other States, have met with the
same misfortune. Much damage has
been done all along the banks of the
Missouri. Many large cities together
with hundreds of smaller places have
been flooded. Omaha and Kansas city
were inundated. At Omaha the water
rose twenty feet above low water mark
and put out the fires of the smelting
works there. Atchison, Kansas, was
also flooded. Many washouts have oc
curred and bridges washed away. Miles
of railroad were under water aud much
of the traveling has been suspended
The railroads used each others tracks
indiscriminately so as to keep up com
munication. Along tne kock river lu
Illinois much damage has been done.
Many iron manufactures met with seri
ous losses by the floods putting out the
tires. The streams in Minnesota have
all overflown their banks and carried
destruction In their way. Special dis
patches from tne interior or Wisconsin
report alarming floods. At Fond du
Lao the water flooded the city, and lum
her yards became floating wood yards
Many washouts and serious accidents
have been reported. Never before in
the hUtory of thai section of the country
have such great floods occurred and so
much damage been done. The waters
are now abating slowly.
A. F. M.
gF Mrs. Adam Grubb, 231 Walnut
street, bus beeu a great sullerer for a
number or years from extreme pain la
tne leet, sometning line rheumatism.
She was also very much troubled with
corns and bunions. It was with great
difficulty that she could walk, and some
times when she would visit her husband's
shoe store or any of her children, she
could not get home again without assist
ance, and often when she was walking
along the streets she would be seized
with such acute pain that she was com
pelled to stop in at the neighbors on the
way until she got better. Some two
weeks ago she heard of the wonderful
cures St. Jacobs Oil was effecting and
she at once commenced to use it and ex
perienced great relief immediately. The
painshave left her feet and ankles and
the iniiammatlon nas left the corns and
bunions. She is now tripping up to her
husband's shoe store and out to see her
children without experiencing any pain,
Wilmington, (Del.) Daily llejmblican,
Worth Remembering.
Now that good times are again upon
us, before indulging in extravagant
show, it is worth remembering that no
one can enjoy tne pieasaniest surroun
dings if in bad health. There are hun
dreds of miserable people going about
to-day with disordered stomach, liver
or kidneys, or a dry, backing cough
and one foot In the grave, when a 60 ct
bottle of Parker's Ginger Tonlo would
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"A young friend of mine was cured
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had so prostrated him that be was una
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cured by the use or nop Hitters. J t al
layed that burning thirst; took away
the appetite for liquor; made his nerves
steady, and he has remained a sober
aud steady man for more than two
years, and he has no desire to return to
his cups ; I know of a number of others
that have beeu cured of rirlking by it."
From a leading It. It. Official, Chicago,
HI. Times. 11) 2w
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