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The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-01-14
For the Bloomfield Times.
LOST FOR YEARS.
BY JOS. NJ. HARTMAN.

OsT for years, lost for years
\ Mourned in sighs and mourned in tears ;
Never could thy faithful lover
OF thy fate one trace discover;
Is thy JOY and beauty o'er,
Shining on this earth no more;
Art thou like the blossoms shed,
Mingled with the silent dead;
Lost for years, lost for years,
Mourned in sighs and mourned in tears.
Or has fate to thee been kind,
Round thy path each blessing twined;
Mingled sunshine and the showers,
AS sweet nature tends the flowers;
No the blast has reached my heart
Keen misfortunes keenest dart,
Pleasure could not light my breast,
Torn from all that love best
Lost for years, stfor years,
Mourned in sighs and mourned in tears.
Or hast thou another found,
If by other ties thou art bound;
Wife and home and joy be thine,
But alone or death be mine;
If tits SO still may roam,
Search on and never find thy home;
Or meet thee once but eye to eye,
And blessed beyond expression die
Lost for years, lost for years,
Mourned in sighs and mourned in tears.
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tion until the stranger went clear through
the book from one blue cover to the other
the reward for which was good supper
and nights lodging, 'and welcome.'-
The next morning the minister they ex-
pected from Carlisle, the Rev. Alexander
McClelland, not having arrived, the old
elder was in considerable tribulation.-
Imagine his surprise when, on arriving
at the meeting house, the muddy stranger
whom he had catechized so faithfully the
night before mounted the pulpit, and turn
ed out to be the very man they were ex-
pecting ~
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-01-14

tB- A pumpkin pie, ten feet in diameter
and four feet deep, was the chief feature
of California dinner, recently. The en-
joyment of the guests was marred some
what by child falling into the pie and
drowning before their eyes.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-09-19
A Lesson for Slanderers.

Perhaps the meanest act man can be
guilty of is to willfully and maliciOusly
tarnish the fair name of a woman, from
whom he has received some real or fan
cied slight. There is n cowardly atroc-
ity in the insidious whisper-the vindic-
tive suggestion-aSserting nothing, vet
leaving the worst to be surmised. Some
years since such matters were taken
cOgnizance of by the code of honor, and
the cOwardly eulprit, unless he escaped
beyond the seas, was made the target of
the family pistol, or his body became
the temporary sheath for the cOurtly ra-
pier. In the present matter-of-factJlays
new order of things exist. The cow
ard and slanderer is still found i'm every
community, but he seldom pays the ex
treme penalty for his crime. In the out
of-the-way village of kingwOod, Hun
terdOn county, New jersey, a little
county town, where "every body knows
every other body" lives a Miss King.
II appears that this young woman had
in some manner slighted or offended an
acquaintance named William Heath.
Smarting under his fancied wrongs, he
goes about that little village of King
wood, and by whispers, hints and cum
ming innuendoes, succeeded in setting
the gossips chattering, and the result
was that Miss King found herself
avoided, and was made painfully con-
scious that she was an object of suspi-
ciOn to her friends and acquaintances.
The matter was traced TO the slanderer,
and on Sunday last Miss King, accom-
panied by her father and brother, pro-
ceeded to the residence of this Heath
with a view to settle the affair. He
was found in his garden. Miss King,
who had provided hersesf with "a GER
tain instrument which greatly helps a
serious argument'-a good cowhide-
advanced toward Heath, and having
given him a bit of her mind, let him
have the lode. She lashej him across
the face, head and body, and whipped
the coward into his house. The father
and brother stood by and allowed the
girl to administer to this defamer of
woman a severe and well-merited chas-
tisement. The lesson will doubtless
have its proper effect, not only on
Heath, but on others, who, like him,
seek to defame the fair name of q re-
/ spectacle woman.
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A SCHOOL MA'AM's REVERE.

Vacation is ended! Hearken to the
school bellsl
Three months ago the warm breath of
June hushed in slumberous silence the
merry sounds of the school bells, and
left them to be awakened by the balmy
September breeze, that, laden with
Odors delicious as those waited from the
"spicy shores of Araby," floats dream
lily over orchards and graiu-fields, touch
ing now with grateful GOODNESS the
moist brow of the laborer; now playing
hide-and-seek i'm the curls that adorn
the heads of those merry children,
bound for yonder schOol-house; and
anon perchance tanning with its fra
grant breath the pale forehead Of the
invalid and bearing to him healing
upon its wings.
AS the schools seemingly with one
accord closed their portals as the year
swept royalty into its June, so also, as il
moved by the same spirit Of harmony,
one and all re-opened them rs the soft
winds of autumn are lured from their
hiding-places by golden, queenly Sep.
tember. What 4 pleasing change i:
visible, both i'm teachers and pupils
since weary and listless they turned
from the closed doors of their respective
schOol-rooms i'm the sultry June sun
shine! How slow then their steps, how
aimless all their movements. Yet
presume we could scarcely regard thesl
brain laborers as dimlcSs, il certainly
being the aim of each to enjoy to til,
utmost the ileeting weeks allotted {,
rest and recreation. To all appearance
that aim has been accomplished, for il
every look and tone and movement W,
can read the energy and determination
born of reSt-that rest which to hund
reds of over-taXed teachers seemed TN
great disideratum-as they stood upol
the blooming threshold of the now-de
parted summer and anticipated its de
lights. How delightful indeed TO bot
teachers and pupils TO cast all thought
of books and tasks, all care of rules an
|; discipline TO the sweet June winds, feel
ing that they wooed none of them unit
brought again TO them by the coo
! breath Of September. Teachers who
/ during the golden month first Dor
} and most favored child of autumn-bt
gin again TO SOW, in the minds of tn
. hundreds of pupils, who, obedient
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-09-19
Dress. Again.

Woman, while striving to reach n
broader plane which places the sex on a
level with man, yet fails TO display good
taste and sense in the one province
strictly under her management-he
own dress. We are told that dress is
index of character; in that case, how
few minds among the fairer portion of
our community are properly balanced
Grace, prOpriety, delicacy, simplicity,
fitness and proportion, are each and all
outraged in the fashions now in vogue.
The belle of the time is one panorama
of awful surprises from top to toe. Her
clothes characterize her. She never
charactizes her clothes. She is uphol-
stored, not ornamented. She is bundled,
not draped. She is puckeTed, not folded.
She struts; she does not sweep. She
has not one of the attributes of Nature
nor of proper art. She neither soothes
the eye like a picture nor wearies it
like Kaleidoscope. She is n meaning
less dazzle of broken effects.
Custom has reconciled us TO these bar
berous styles in dress, but fifty years
hence they will seem to our children as
uncultivated as the nose-rings of the
HottentOts now seem to us. The dictitHi
of our great grandchildren upon, for
instance, what has been termed the
Kangaroo style of dress will contain
fewer and severer elements OF criticism
than. any which go to form our judg-
ment upon fashions which repel us only
because they are out of date. How end
less our ingenuity i'm sowing this seed OF
criticism. IL we have pretty foot, we
wear our heels beneath our iDsteps and
cripple it. If we have abundant hair
we cover it with the hair of some un-
cleanly dead grisette, or twine it with
an Indian weed which is namelessly
horrible and expose the wearer to name.
less horrors. Ii we have a pretty dress
we cut it up, we slash it of, we twist il
hither, we ship it yon, we bolster il
here, we stuff it there, we mutilate il
everywhere.
We pay no attention to artistic effects
TO harmony of any sort, and yet til,
/ thought expended on her dress by tn,
modern belle is equal to that bestowe,
by an author on his writings. If"exer
tion of intellect" stands censor on tn,
beauty of our custom, Heaven save tht
mark
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the sweet, half-forgotten summons of
the school bells, again leave their homes
and claim again your care and instruc-
tion, the germs which shall in coming
years bear fruit 10 knowledge and use
fulness, as you lay aside the mantle of
pleasure and again buckle on the armor
of toll; rs You patiently 'isOw that 9TH
ers may reap" with renewed energy
and determination, with faith and hope
inspired by past success, thank God
and take cOuragel
Pupils, who again daily leave your
homes to seek the familiar rooms conse-
Grated to study, whether this balmy
day of early autumn finds you gathered
in the unpretending school-house of a
remote and lonely district or assembled
in the stately halls of the Universities
that are the pride of our young State;
when the breezes again come to you
laden with the fragrance of pure roses;
when at the sultry bidding of summer
you again turn from the closed doors OF
your school-roOms TO seek rest and rec
reation, may not the ghost of lost oppor-
tunity, the shadowy specter of mis-spent
time, follow you TO your summer re-
treat.
May teachers and pupils alike strive
earnestly TO make the most of the tai
ents God has given them, work together
in harmony and exercise toward each
other an abundance of that Charity
''that suflereth long and is kind"
SO shall this school year yield n rich
harvest of present enjoyment, future
usefulness and sweet memories. C..
FOREST GROVE, September, 1873.
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MEDICAL COLLEGES FOR WONEN.-
The Americdn Journal OF Dental Science
observes that sit is less than twenty-five
years since the first medical college for
women began its work. Now there are
several of these institutions in Europe
and in this country, while the doors of
many of the older colleges are open to
women. There are scores of women en-
gagged in medical studies now where
they were counted by units 4 dozen
years ago. Three hundred women have
offered themselves at one college in
Russia, and at Zurich siXty-three stu
dents are now engaged. The lady stu
dents there constitute One-fourth of ali
the matriculates. All restrictions On
the admission of ladies to the lectures
and laboratory practice of the Phar-
maceutical Society Of London have been
removed, and in this country women
freely attend the lectures and instrUc-
tions of some of the colleges. Women
physicians are members of County and
State Medical Societies, and so have q
representation in the American Medical
Association. One phase of this medical
education Of women is that q call is
made for female missionaries who are
doctors. Three of these have already
gone among the Zenanas, in India, and
another is soon to go to China.
The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-09-19

THE WIFE.-Only let n woman be
sure she is precious to her husband-nOt
useful, not valuable, not convenient
simply-but lovely and beloved; let her
be the recipient of his polite and hearty
attentions, let her feel that her cares
and love are noticed, appreciated and re-
turned; her opinion asked, her approval
sought, and her judgment respected in
matters of which she is cognizant; in
short, let her only be loved, hOnOred
and cherished, in fulfillment of the
marriage vow, and she will be to her
husband, her children and society, a
well-spring of happiness. She will bear
pain, and toll, and anxiety, for her hus-
bands love to her is tower and fortress.
Shielded and sheltered therein, any ad-
versity will have lost its sting. She
may suffer, but sympathy will dull the
edge of sorrow. a house with love i'm it
and by love / mean love expressed in
words and deeds, for / have not one
spark Of faith in love that never crops
Quit is to a house as to a person to a
machine, one is life, the other mechan-
ism-the unlOved woman may have
bread just as light, house lust as tidy
as the other, but the latter has a spring
OF beauty about her, q penetrating aud
pervading brightness to which the for
mer is an entire stranger. The deep
happiness of her heart shines out in her
face. She CLEANS all over. 1t is airy,
graceful and warm and welcoming with
her presence; she is full of devices and
plots, and sweet surprises for her hus-
band and family. She has never done
with the romance and poetry of life.
She herself Is lyric poem setting her
self to all pure and gracious melodies.
Humble household ways and duties
have for her golden Significance. The
prize makes her calling high, and the
end sanctifies the means.
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NUMBER q.

tration and legislation-whO knows? /
hope am not given to boasting, but /
venture to say that, given the franchise
given Il million or two of dollars
troops of political friends, of the sort
whose devotion is not measured by
scruples, but by drams-given, above
all, plant and unprejudiced Legisla-
ture, and some fine morning will walk
into the United States Senate and pre-
sent my credentials with n candid and 4
Kansas air. 1 think / shall prefer a
seat by that good Woman's Rights man,
Mr.. Frelinghuysen. He is aristocratic,
but he is evangelical. / will vote with
Buckingham, and listen with Abijah
Gilbert; and if, at any time, l shall not
be good, they may take me and shake
me, and set me down hard by Bogy or
BrOwnlow.
There is new rule adopted by the
new Civil Service Commission, which
all applicants ought to know before
subjecting themselves to the severe Or
deal of q competitive examination. 1t
is that no man or woman having q rela-
tive in Government office, here or
elsewhere, can receive an appointment
as clerk or copyist. If this arbitrary
rule should be applied to all the higher
OiliCco MldO ulSil1l anu ulSIupllOn II
would dcause-howmany happy family
circle would be broken up?
Your other Washington correspond
ent, mentioning the promotion of Miss
Mary Nichols, of the Patent Office, to
the position of Third Assistant Exami-
ner, stated that three other ladies' cred
itably passed the same examination,
which was "strictly of general scien-
tific nature, but that the Commissioner
had given notice that only one lady
would, in any event, be appointed to
try the novel experiment of so dizzy and
dangerous an eXaltation as . third as
sistant examinership under Leggett.
The sOlemnity and momentousness of
the event may well give US pause. But
what of the three other aSpirants? At
the festive board of the assistant exami-
ners are there no more vacant chairs for
ladies of good character and fair attain
ments OF a general scientific nature
Alas, no! The fact is, there are too
many of us. can think of no relief
for coming generations, for future Leg
getts and Richardson's, except through
the heroic remedy of quietly putting all
female infants out of the way. Moth
ing could be so good for us except long
and glorious succession of HerOds-N
Y. Times.
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Eternity has none. But let the simple
words, He giveth his beloved sleep
stand out in base relief upon the marble,
that the blind in passing by may read
the blessed words. My mind is clear
now, and looking back through the
dead years 1 see long and cloudy way,
beset by thorns and brambles but, Oh,
my son and daughter, eye hath not
seen nor ear heard, nor hath it entered
the heart of man to conceive the joys
that await me. Attend now to DIR. Goff
and leave me alone with God. The
spirit must not be disturbed when leav-
ing the frail tenement that struggles to
hold it,"
Closing her eyes, while a halo of
brightness played upon her features,
lighting them up with an unearthIy IA
dance, she sank into a quiet slumber
and spoke no more.
Oh, reader, what is death?
DIR. Golf awoke to consciousness. As
the fiickering rays of an expiring taper
will gather sudden brightness after an
interval of well nigh total darkness, so
the life that hangs all tremblingly upon
the verge Of the great Unknown will
emit beams of passing brilliancy ere the
last rays die out. And it was so with DIR.
Goff. Like a ripe shock of wheat, he
was all ready TO be garnered, and he
knew the fact full well.
"Ellen, Ellen Dowd," he whispered,
81 see your mother. She is near me
now and waits to guide me over the dark
river. This bank is dark, mean, and
the stream is muddy; but on the other
shore the sands are sands of gold, and
the clear stream goes rippling on, while
countless barks are dipping their silver
oars in its rippling tide. On this side
the angel of death has moored his bark
and is watching. On the other and
near the middle of the stream the angel
of life is waiting TO meet and bear me
on. Life and death, in this great river
meet i'm mute embrace, the Finite on
this side, the Infinite on that. / can't
tell you how w'beautifully beams that shin
ing shore. Your mother, in her eager
ness to meet the old man who idolized
her in his awkward boyhood, has crossed
the turbid river and stands waiting
there. Can you not see her ?"
"Alas, no." said Ellen, "exeept by
eyes of faith"
''She says to ME, Tell Ellen to profit
by her past earth-life and mine. Tell her
togointo the world and preach the gospel
of bitter experience, by which she has
learned the better way, that through
her own sad life the world may look and
see a happier way than the oppressed has
walked in.' Ellen Dowd, good angels
sent me here TO die. You have wealth,
love, position and past experience
In the name of the mother who passed
out in the bright life when your earthly
existence dawned, conjure you to use
your lore Of life TO open the eyes of the
blind that all may see the better way
and be induced to walk therein"
"IIis voice grew. faint and hoarser, his grasp
was childish weak,
His eyes put on dying look, he sighed and
ceased 70 speak"
"rhis is the house of God and very
gate of heaven" said Edgar Worth.
"And the place whereon we stand il
holy ground" replied his wife.
Concluded next week.l
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The next development of woman's
rights will be that they take off their
hats and bOnnets at church, at lecture,
at concert, and opera, just as men do.
This is recommended also upon the
ground of convenience to the rest of the
audience. Some one who has been suffer-
ing from the prevailing style OF ladies'
hat ut church, explains his sentiments
thus:
"We go to church. We sit in back
seat. Between US and the preacher are
twelve seats. On these seats sit twelve
ladies. On each lady's head is a hat.
The one crowning the lady Immediately
before us is high, and ObscHres our view
of the minister; the view of number one
is obstructed by number two's hat, and
so on. Number twelve has 4 clear view
of the preacher, but nervously moves
her head from side to side; this ineOn-
veniences number eleven, who moves
her brain-bOX also; number ten follows
suit, and so DO all of us in turn-but
have Immediately to shift again. We
desire to see all hats, bonnets, and head
dresses left in the hat-room at our
church, or put in the pocket, or in the
muff, or under the seat, or on each
lady's thumb, during all future SER
vices.n
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CHATTER xU

But it was soon apparent that the
lunatic had no intention Of joking.
The Doctor, realizing the position,
with difficulty suppressed hearty
laugh, and yet he was little mortified
as he glanced ruefully at the jacket COW
ing his pinioned hands.
"This is 4 rather unceremOnious in
PRODUCTION to California, " said he, glane-
ing meaningly at Ellen. "But 1 sup
pose insane people must submit. Tell
me-" turning 10 the lunatic, whose
fierce eyes were flashing upon him with
a glare that convinced the physician
and officers that they had been the vic
Tins of practical joke; "tell me, how
came you to know was crazy? You
must be 4 very sagacious woman"
80, it was very easy to find out.
Didn't see you cycling me askance as
though you Thought / was crazy? Hou
can't fool an old lady with old tricks,
sir. You're not the first man that's
been summoned 10 my house to pro-
nounce me crazy and get me off to an
asylum; but got ahead this time. Be
of with him at oncer' waving her hand
with imperial dignity at the policemen,
who stood dumbfounded near the door.
Ellen and her husband attempted an
explanation.
"Let me go with them," said the
Doctor, giving Ellen another warning
look. "Of course Pm crazy" arising
TO bow himse1 out of the room.
'Unpinion his hands," said the visit
ing physician.
The order was injudiciously obeyed in
the presence Of the deranged lady, who
at once became unmanageable. For
days her rawlings were most fearful.
Loving hands that would have minis
tered TO her were cast aside with fearful
imprecations, and the mild form OF
lunaey which she had almost uniformly
exhibited before gave place to raving
blasphemy. Ellen's household would not
consent to her removal TO the asylum,
and DR.. Gofr did not request it. She
would receive aid from no one except
Ellen, and from her only at rare inter.
walls.
''They say that men are women'i
friendsr' she screamed. "Ah, who bu
men may women fear? Who but
man allured me from my childhoo
home and robbed me of life's brightes
Joys? Who but a man beguiled m
into a marriage that was not legal an
made my son illegitimate? Who but
man robbed me Of my baby and locke
me i'm n mad house? Ellen darcy
see! yonder on the lawn is Edga
Worth. You have trusted him. II
will destroy you. He will rob you {
your children, lock you in n dungeon
despoil you of your grand estates an
render you a fiend incarnate. Don
look at him Don't touch him Mer
who claim to be our friends and prC
tectors, are our worse than deadly enc
mics"
''Dear mother, do not talk 50, "pleade
Ellen. "Aly husband is noble, kind an
true. He loves you, mother. He
your own dear baby boy of whom yo
were just now speaking. The man wh
was your enemy is dead"
"Dead! dead % she shrieked. fTh
wicked never diel Had he been goo
and pure and gentle, as you are, M
child, he would have died; but no, he
not deadl He watches through the Ike,
hole TO see If I shall stir. He glar
upon me in the darkness, and when l
would sing, his voice sends forth his
ing serpents TO torment my soul vii
tongues Of living fire. Ellen, take war