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The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-08-10

We had been married nearly two
months, when one morning Kate came
into the private parlor Of our London
hotel, where / sat reading. Upon one
pretext and another / had delayed our
return TO Barton, and we had been some
weeks In London. looked up as Kate
came In, and her CHASTITY face and set
lips, absolutely frightened me. Before /
could speak, she held out to me my
guardians letter.
You asked me to clear up your table
drawer" she said, ''and this was folded
in another paper, but so that 1 read one
line, Gerard Hopkinson Is an innocent
manl' Then 1 read the letter. / only
ask one question: Did 1t reach you
before we were married. 7"
could not lie to her, with her eyes
riveted on my face.
I" Before,'' said.
sand you destroyed the inclcsure 7"
She uttered no reproach. She simply
put the letter upon table beside me,
and left the room.
BuC IL killed ner. fOr mOnLnS bne
faded away, coldly dutiful to me, gentle
affectionate to her mother, but crushed
by the weight of her misery. Her only
hope of happiness was gone when her
quiet affection for me turned to bitter
contempt, and 1 faltered In every
attempt to win back even the dull SEM
blance of love she had tried to show
me.
am writing in my own home at
Barton. Kate's dying wish was to be
buried here, and we brought her home
to place her beside her father in the
Barton cemetery. Yesterday the coffin
that held my heart was lowered into the
grave. Aunt Carrie knows all, and has
forgiven me, and will share my home,
1t was her hand that burned the fatal
letter, and no one has questioned us
about it. My guardian thinks 1t reach
ed me after my marriage, and Gerard
Hopkinson shares this belief.
But know that my treachery ha:
killed the only woman L ever loved
and that my life will be one long agony
of remorse.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-08-10
The Old Darkey's Belief.

A N old colored Presbyterian at Little
n Rock, Arkansas, was met by a
Baptist preacher one day, and accused
of stealing his saddle. First he denied
it, and at last he said:
Now ketch de pints ez l gin 'em ter
yer. Oar is jes' so many saddles in his
worl' what is ter be stole, an dar's jes
so many men what is ter steal desc sad
dies. Dis is predespernation. Now, eff
yer saddle happens ter be one OBJ de
predisposed saddles, an 1 happen ter be
one ob de predisposed men, kin / hep
itp"
''I don't want religious discussion,
Dave" said the parson. sit isn't the
saddle now that L care SO much about,
it is that you told me lie in saying
that you didn't steal it,"
Well, den, parson, 'spose L takes
back de lie an keeps de saddle?"
"a lie once told always stands. You
have lied to me, you scoundrel, and 1
believe it is my duty to have you ar
rested.n sf ta gra8
"Parson, dar's jes a certain amount
OBJ lies ter be tole in dis worl', an eff l is
one oh de men what is predisposed
to tell one OBJ desc lies, hits not my
fault, an can't hep it,"
"You go on now and get that saddle,
or I'll swear out warrant for your
arrest"
"I'll do de bes'' L kin, parson, but
dar's jes certain amount OBJ stole sad
dies ter be returned in dis worl'. Eff Use
one OBJ de predisposed men, an b'lieves
L is, you'll fine your saddle hangin' on
de yard fence bout sundown dis ebe-
| nin.n Lr. fa.Gg4
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-08-10
THE TIMES, NEW BLooMmELD Pa AUGUST 10. 1880.


I'm make him ask you for drink"
whispered the disciple of Mesmer.--
Just stand back, gentlemen = and sure
enough the subject walked mechanically
upto the counter and asked in hollow
voice for little old rye. va
solve 1t to him humor him In
everything" whispered the Professor,
and the victim solemnly swallowed the
drink and then stood motionless as
before.
"Now, Ill make him think he's an
actor" said the illustrator of will power,
and Immediately the other began to
strut about and reclte Shakespeare In a
tragic voice. lrtTE4 ygFYfr.~
Make him bark like dog" suggest
ed the man who had bet five dollars.
Whereupon the man began to initiate a
terrier, and tried to bite a spectator, to
the immense amusement of everybody.
After that he was caused to do several
things, such as growing like rooster,
catching fly, and pocketlng the ''pool''
money, which lay on the counter.
Make him think he keeps the bar, !"
put In the Professors friend, and the
subject walked promptly around behind
the counter, turned up his sleeves and
compounded cocktail, putting the
money in the drawer and counting out
the change, with great deliberation.
"Now,' " said the Professor, tive will
make him put the contents of the draw
er in his own pocket, then restore him
to consciousness, and accuse him OF
having stolen the money"
Everybody said that would be first
rate joke, and then the fve-dollar man
thought it would be better to let him
walk outside and arrest him in the street
his astonisment would be all the
greater, he said.
The man solemnly cleaned out the
till, walked from behind the bar and
out of the door. AS soon as he struck
the pavement, however he darted down
Powell street at three minute clip.
"Dear me" shouted the Professor, 4"
must have been thinking about running
somehow. Come on, Mr.. Smoothly, ant
help me catch him" and the soul-sub
duer and his friend dashed off in pur
suit.
They are still waiting at the Baldwin
for the return of the trio, who mus
have divy'd about $55 apiece, and th
detectives think they are liable to wal
for long time. The barkeeper says h
wishes he may be blank blanked tt
everlasting blanknation, while Manage
Tom Mcguire, who is out So on tn
mesmeric proposition, says he's half
mind to have the whole thing dramatize
for the fall season.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-08-10
siahtless Pigs.

Mr.. Adam E. Rauck, of Fishing
Greek mills, on the Columbia and Port
Deposit railroad, is the owner of three
sows, each of which has, within few
weeks past, given birth to litter of
pigs, and every pig of the three litters is
stone blind, several of them having not
the semblance of an eye in the eye
socket. In every other respect the pigs
are perfect and healthy. They are
growing finely and seem to be endowed
with unusually good hearing. 1t is
quite amusing to see them prick up
their ears and listen, apparently with
the keenest interest, to any strange
noise. The pigs are of the Chest er
White breed, and there are from ten to
a dozen in each litter. The sows. and
boars from which they were bred have
good eyes. Can any of our scientists
give reason for this wholesale blind
ness Rsq 81 7rfasat
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-08-10
A SUCCESSFUL MEsMERlsER.

THE other morning while the swell
/ barkeeper at Baldwin's was putting
an extra polish on some pony glasses, a
couple of strangers entered, and, as they
ordered drinks, one of them, long
haired cadaverous person, in faded
ulster, said:
"Oh, its very easily done, 1 assure
you"
"Easy ?r exclaimed his companion,
with much animation; "why it's the
most remarkable-the most astounding
thing 1 ever saw. What did you say
you called It'll !"
Mesmerism," said the long-haired
man, holding his glass up to the light.
"The principle was discovered by a
German scientist named Mesmer, al
though it is, unquestionably, identical
with the animal magnetism known to
the early Greeks. Tacitus says"
But you don't mean to say" inter-
rupted the other, who was making q
formidable demonstration on the free
lunch, "you don't mean to say, Profess
sor, that the person subjected to the
influence hasn't the faintest idea of
what's going on p''
Exactly" said the Professor. "The
person under the influence of mesmer-
ism has no more self consciousness than
q cane-bottomed chair. For illustration,
do you see that man at the corner over
there9 He is evidently waiting for a
car-big hurry to go somewhere-and
yet could bring him into this saloon
in perfectly unconscious state in less
than two minutes"
"Bet you five dollars you can't dol !"
said the other man, producing some
what dubious looking V.
"Ya-a.s,n added the barkeeper, ar
ranging his diamond pin in the glass,
sand I'll go him twenty better he can't
do it,"
"Well. er-gentlemen, I don't want
to rob you-and-ahem-I' not sure
have that much with me-" faltered
the professor.
"Ohl you haven't, chi said the
| COCk-Udll HlAeI, WLnhAuB hO tuo NY
ISLANDERS, who were also eagerly fum-
bling out their coin. "Well, we'll trust
you. Just fire away, and, if you win,
you take the pot"
"Well, gentlemen, / suppose I'll have
to try anyway" and, amid variety Of
significant winks from the gathering
crowd of bystanders, he walked to the
window and be gan making series Of
mysterious passes In the air, with the
eyes fixed on the party at the corner.
"Did you ever see such blamed
idiotpn said the barkeeper. " Looks
like Santa Clara windmill, doesn't
hellol by jove, the feller's comingp'
The man on the corner had slowly
faced the window, passed his hands
across his eyes in a bewildered manner
and then began walking in an uncertain
way across the street. :" 1t will hav'
more effect on him when he get
closer,v said the Professor.
| The man entered the saloon and stoo,
still, looking straight ahead with
vacant expression.
The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-08-10
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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-01-22
A Point Of Courtesy.

There is one little piece of kindness
which almost all people, old and young,
have opportunity to perform, and by
whose practise they can very materially
add to the comfort and happiness of less
fortunate persons. It's to avoid looking
at deformities or marks of disease when
they are met in the street or at home. If
a person has misshapen foot, or lacks
an arm or leg, or bears upon the face
some Disagreement, or is evidently suf-
fering from disease, we may be sure that
the fact is sufficiently impressed upon his
mind, by his own thoughts, and by the
marked attention of the unkind or the
theughtless, without any stares or re-
marks of our own. The keen suffering
given to a sensitive person-and all per-
sons with a noticeable deformity may
well be supposed to be sensitive on that
SUBJECTS such as one who has felt it
can understand to the full. OF course it
is the most natural thing for the eye to
fall upon that which is marked or I'M
natural. We ought deliberately to school
ourselves not to add, by look or by word,
to the unhappiness Of those who have
already enough to Bears. 8. Times.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-01-22
Some Queer Things.

Take, for example, the following genu-
inc notice on IN Irish church door !:
" This is to give notice that no person
IL to be buried in this charch-yard but
those living in the parish. Those in the
parish to be buried are desired to ap-
Rlyto me, Ephraim Grub, parish clerk.
Here is another kindred specimen ::
Notice: The church wardens win hold
their quarterly meetings once in six
weeks, instead Of half yearly, Is former
w. In the April Of 1906, the following
bill was stuck up: This house to be
let forever, or longer If required" Such
. house would quite match the gown
mentioned by Miss Edgeworth, which
would wear forever, and might be con-
verted into petticoat afterward," An
other peculiar garment is described in
ore Of Lady Morgsn's earlier novels as
being composed Of IN apparent tissue
OF woven aiI."-Chambers' Journal
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-01-22
THE DEAD YEAR.

This poem by John SavaQeis considered By
the editor Of "The Irish Poets" the finest pro
ducti0n Of ekind in the English language
Yet another chief Is carried
From lies battle on his spears,
To the great Valhalla cloisiers
OF the everything years.
Yet another year-the mummy
OF warlike giant, vast
Is niched within the pyramid
Ofthe ever-growing past.
Years roll through the palm Of ages,
As the dropping rosary speeds
Through the cold and passive fingers
OF q hermit at his beads.
One year falls snd ends It's penance
One arises with its needs,
And it's ever thus prays Nature,
Only telling year for beads.
Years like acorns from the branches
OF the giant oak Of Time.
FIJI the earth with healthy seedlings
For future more sublime.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-01-22
THE NAN IN THE NOON.

The Man In the Neon is comical loon;
His round face is all that he shows.
Whether stately and trim, or scanty oflimb,
~ Il secret that nobody knows.
In his lofty estate he Is careless of fate,
And he rides through the sky at his ease:
He has stuck to his horn since the day he was
And he fattens on Cynthia's cheese.
- To what mystic race, with his quizxical face,
This wanderer claims to belong.
II the Muses. e'er knew they have left US NO
clue,
In fable, or fiction. or song.
Who IL his mother9 his sister and brother?
And his pedigree?- It flaw?
Sweet soul! he has none; he Is nobody's son,
Aud the rogue has NO mother.in.law.
When the sun sinks to rest, In the purple.
crowned west,
He comes forth. no frolic to miss:
And slyly he creeps through the windows and
peeps
At lovers in hope, and In bliss
All! what has he seen by peeping between
The curtains wherever he goes!
Bnt the MUSES. are good-not one OF them
would
, Tell the volume Of secrets he knows.
He kisses the flowers. snd lights the green
bowers
Where lovers delight in his smile;
And the touch OF his beams gilds tho noun
tains and streams,
And the glad earth rejoice the while.
Equal pleasure he brings to peasant and
kings,
And he smiles on the cook and the queen
And the good and the bad. the stricken and
glad,
Bask alike in his brightness serene
He has shown his kind face to each child Of
z our race
= Since the hour OF humanitys birth;
Aud on Times shining pages, in all the long
ages,
10 recorded the fame OF his worth.
Then I'LL up the bowl to the genial soul!
Z" For We must all leave him full soon;
Let good cheer abound as the goblet goes
round
Ard hurrah for the Man in the Moon!
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-01-22

anced on his outlandish head. A third Of
fers her an empty glass, the wine being
spilled from q dec,lnter in shower-bath
over white-faced urchin, directly over
head. Two elves tear q bonbon apart;
another couple amuse themselves with
the nut crackers, one Of them being
squeezed with its vice-like grip. What
frolics are being played around the pre-
served ginger,jar, aud how merry is that
long nosed urchin at her feet, who baIan-
ances an orange with the skill of an &C
robatl Sweet little princess, dream on
until you are awakened, as was sleeping
beauty in the wood by kiss!
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-01-22
A Remarkable Bank Note.

At one time a well-known collector Of
curiosities in Paris, who had devoted
considerable sums of money to the
gathering together of bank notes of all
countries and all values, became the
Possessor of Bank of England g.
pound note to which an unusually
strange story was attached. This note
was paid into a Liverpool merchants
Office in the ordinary way of business
sixty-one years ago, and the cashier,
while holding it up to the light to test
its genuineness, noticed some faint red
marks which, on closer examination,
proved to be semi-e ffaced words scrawled
in blood between the printed lines and
upon the blank margin of the note.
Eventually the following sentence was
made out:
IF this note should fall into the
hands OF John Dean, of Long-hill, near
Carlisle, he will learn hereby that his
brother ia languishing . prisoner in
Agiers."
MIR. Dean was promptly communicat.
ed with by the holder of the note, and
he appealed to the Government of the
day for assistance in his endeavor to
obtain his brothers release. The pris.
oner, who, as it subsequently appeared,
had traced the above sentence upon the
note with splinter of wood dipped in
his blood, had been slave to the Dey
OF Algiers for eleven years, when his
strange missive first attracted attention
in q Liverpool counting~house. HIS
family and friends had long believed
him dead. Eventually his brother,
with the aid of the British authorities
in the Mediterranean, succeeded in
ransoming him from the DEFY, and
brought him home to England, where,
however, he did not long survive his
release, his constitution having been ir-
reparably injured by exposure, priva-
lions. and forced labor in the DeYs GAL
leYs.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-01-22
Scientists Nay Differ

About the pathology of rheumatism its origin
and whether it be hereditary, but irrefragable
testimony proves that when tendency to
it develops itself, Hostetter's Stomach Bit
tiers is reliable means Of subduing that ten.
dency.: Some of the prescribed remedies for
the disease are decidedly Objectionable from
utterly Intellectual, the best, the safest check
is the Bitters. This very obstinate malady.
the more effectually to overcome 1t, should
be grappled with at the outset Every one
knows what terrible, what ceaceless pain it
can intlict. Why then should this atrocious,
often fatal complaint be allowed to gain
Roadway, through Indifference to its earliest
symptoms, when safe, long tested and
itself. In addition to suggesting this means
OF relief it seems not inappropriate to caution
the rheumatic against exposure.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-01-22

The doctor would have answered, but
Lefty put her hand on his arm. There
was . faint pink on her cheek, and her
blue eyes sparkled like steel.
"Fortunately, my MOTHER" she said,
gently, lis not in such strait. have
made arrangements for her to take the
journey. We are going tomorrow to
Virginia. I have bought her old home,
and we shall live there. She will have a
long change of air."
William turned CHASTITY pale.
Bought What money had youi"
~Her own share of the estate" said
Judge Wright: calmly. "Letltia is of
age. She seems to have always been un-
der the impression that she and her mo-
Their were dependent on you. She came
to ask me about it only two months ago;
and I, as her guardian and executor, had
nothing mere to do than to baud over her
share, which was. you know, in bonds.
She has chosen to invest it in Virginia
land. Mr.. Hips made the purchase for
her." nodding to the berry young law
yer, who nodded gravely back again.
Mr.. Burke moved suddenly over to his
side with beaming recognition.
"How do you propose to live on this
farm" said William.
my mother will withdraw her portion
of the estate" said Lefty. "She is enti-
tied to third, you know"
"Withdraw2 Thirds? Why, I've use
for it! If she does that I have done
with the meadow lots" HIS voice was
like the bark Of an enraged dog.
"You seem, William" said Judge
Wright, "strangely to have forgotten the
true position Of your mother aud sister.
You have drawn the interest of your
money. This must, OF course be refund
ed. Little Lefty has clear head. She
will manage very we'll. BY the way,
she has suggested to me that your wife
should send over the Cleveland silver,
and all other household property belong
lug to your mother before marriage"
When William and his wife wen; out
of the gate, he seemed to have shrunk
into smaller and an older man. The
last words heard from him were "Lots.
It's all your faults in fierce bitterness.
When they were all gone, Lefty put
her head down on her mothers lap.
"Now, mother" she said, "For the ros-
es and the old oaks, and rest and home!
We shall find poor black Tod there, wait
ing and all your friends"
There was an uneasy cough behind
them. 1t was Mr.. Burke, waiting to say
good-by.
Il shall be ncighbor, too, Miss Let
ty.''
Yer, remember" blushing very much.
He held her hand q moment. "You-
you are not sorry that I shall be there
too9"
But Lefty only blushed more absurdly
and could not answer.-Peterson's MAG
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-01-22

From Vienna TO Paris on Horseback.
By dint Of keeping constantly in the
saddle and having relays of horses all
along the road, the Prince de Ligne
contrived to cover the miles between
Vienna and Paris-over 500 as the crow
flies in nix days. This performance
was outdone by the Count de Maik-
tenay, who rode the whole dis
lance on one horse, without dis
mounting. The Count, one of the
most accomplished horsemen of his
day, was attached to the mission sent
by Napoleon to negotiate for the hand
Of Marie Louise, and was deputed to
carry to his impatient master the formal
consent of the Emperor Of Austria to
the marriage, and the miniature of the
unwilling bride-elect. To expedite his
journey, six of the finest horses in the
imperial stables were dispatched to diff
ferent places on the route, that the Count
might change his mount; but the Hun
garian roadster he bestrode at starting
went SO fast and staid so well that the
relays we're not called into service, and
the matrimonial messenger arrived at
MS destination long before he was ex-
pected, but so exhausted that he was
fain to crave permission to be seated in
the Emperor's presence, as he delivered
up the all-important mission, and re-
peated the Archduchess' message to her
future lord. Ajeweled snuff:box, sc, 600
francs and the good steed he had rid
den rewarded the Count for his expe-
dition. The Count de Maintenay's
feat was repeated in 1874 by an Aus
TRAN Lieutenant, who undertook to
ride his horse, Caradoc, from Vienna to
Paris in fourteen days. He was un-
lucky enough to lose his way in the
Black forest, and SO waste seven hours,
and was further delayed by an accident
to his horse; nevertheless, he accom-.
plished his task, with more than two
hours to the good.-AH the Year
Round.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-01-22
A New Vear'a Dream.

Dear, dainty little miss she has drOpp-
ed off into s1umber, and her dreams are
with fantastic shapes from elf and fairy
land. New Year is at hand, glowing
with mlrth and happiness and joy. There
shall be no STINT to plum-pudding and
mince~pie, to apples, to oranges, and
preserved fruits. These tricksome elves
are wantonly sporting with her fears.
One spider legged little fellow makes .
football Of the precious plum-pudding;
another mocks her with mince pie bal.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-01-22

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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-01-22

A H1aH-roHED drummer got his back
up the other day, when invited to take
something. That 10, he drank 1t the
; se.s door; and want that getting his
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-01-22
~ am All Plnyed Ont.

is common complaint. 1t you feel so,
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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-01-22


My daughters say "How much better
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is getting we'll after his long suffering
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we are so glad that he used your bitters.' "
"A lady Of Rochester, N. Y.-Utica Her.