The Blairsville Press (Newspaper) - April 30, 1869, Blairsville, Pennsylvania VOLUME 17, PUBLISHED EVERY PA. i 1'ropriotor. T F. K M S 82 00 Per Annum Payable iu All of Job ni ths nt following for THE SOWO OF THE BT 0. AND JOB Auditor's id A and 2 50 o 2 jO i 00 1" ich subsequent 60 and per 2 00 jue S 00 Local 1.'' 0 1 poi lj 33.1 in in on MONDAY on or i full moon of Bt 7 a. By jf tbo A SO. H I. 0. of 0. meets in their in ii uu tho first und third of at 7J p. in. 1'. C. P 136, 1. U. mools in their ewry Fri lay at J. M. 0. C a 3Co. 1553, I. O. T u. every 1'. M. T. W. 0. of PA. Tho are of Tabla Curner Posti AM wrork and delivered in any part or Within tho I And under tho stroke of A tuneful Bong I sing. Rnd glows the Tho roar You can henr their Hugo lungs pau ting the The amith and Hu MR on it fall ou tho And tho sparks all round him a ready I And him with my long J to him while he labors I to him nil day long. Hip arm IB brawny Knd Us well I know Ho strikes with En And Thw children stand in tho 1'or they to him Hii eledge While I Mr out to the You kaar it tar AJ I tho in. hia all tha long AVith evory blow from his hammer An answering I orer is 1 an echo is smitten By the iron of Abide have uot long to enger and young tind Ibo fall Make with a T LA 1'n. in anil keep on io Tomb a id also Marble Corner for enlarged shop find vrc that wj suit tho tuste of and at us lo nf can be hud in or A j The year ia into iiro K I rat of January 31st. 1st, 01 c u A R u s ir fuel in duy higher in use of piano J. 1'AKKS. A. M 20 10 FHY M below ly G I I oi liud M tin and M. In. u r ol jc 4 AT Will and in r A. c. KITE T U R li V S A T L A to nil them in i L i A B U O wrm K K Y S R R A I 229 Market AND A S H I O N A M L E 51 A T A N A S T 0 R K J. K. 3ii St. PA. Pa. P. U. the uml known House cornor tho and the to public lib either or mid lodging ai livery room is to thu 11. P. It. TM Mr. A. C. has en band tho I of to lo ip i Jr to tho advantage of all whn need of fruit to giro him a ia of tiia ic thu Baking and Ghostly Warnings It was in the days of our when there were brick ovens in the that Mr. bought his haunted house of very much his wife's It lonely It was next to n graveyard though long not very and it had the reputation of u Mr. did not believe in was too cheerful to be depressed by and never intended to be he when his wife shook her head over the I got the house and it's a good You'll like it when you get If you why then Bo tho house was and into it the family There was a chance for a ghost to show his face in such n household of boys and Tha rosy-faced master of tha house anil his little wife had ten of It was in view of tho eternal of that the jolly husband had clubbed his Martha Juno using it in jest at and at lust because of an old ing the rest of into the way of motherly Mother so that it waa more her name by far than her baptismal Martha Having once expostulated and ken out her Mother Hubbard gave up the She scrubbed and tacked down carpets and put up end owned that tho place was and not a ghost appeared for a made up her mind there was no Buoli and even began not to mind the So house was got to rights at and baking day In tho press of business they had had a great deal of baker's bread and were tired of it. Mrs. Hubbard had never enjoyed ting a batch of bread to rise she did that which was to bo eaten for the first time in tho new For I can't get up an appetite for stuff that nobody knows who has had the making said Mother all and So into the oven went the and out it came at tho proper time even and brown and as loaves could Mother turned them upon their Hides ns drew them and in tho long bread ous proofs of her skill and of tho of the when Tommy bard bounded in. Tommy was and at that age one is prone to believe that anything will bear our anxious to inspect the new made swung himself off by clutching tho edge of und over it loaves and Tommy and Mother Hubbard to the rescue and picked up tho All were ducted and in the tray again but That lay bottom upwards un- der the bothering lo give mo so much she as she crawled under tho And there on the sat Mother screaming ringing her hands and shaking her The children screamed also in Mr. Hubbard rushed in from the garden where he was at What is tho ho d. Hubbard pointed to the bottom of loaf lying on her nud ask she I'm going to bo ken from as Mr. Hubbard he saw on the loaf a head and as plainly engraven ufl they sibly could 1 said Mr. queer cracks do come you Don't But Mother Hubbard was in a led state of stories about tho haunted house was she tho spirits have marked the I'm afraid it is a And tho loaf was put for even Mr. Hubbard did not dare to eat any of it. Mrs. Hubbard got over her but the news of the of the awfully marked loaf spread through and people came to the Hubbards all the week to look at it. It was a death's lead and cross every one saw that at a glance as to its Some be- that it was a warning of ng death some that the spirits frighten the Hubbards This alter supposition inspired Mrs. with Finally she leaned o the put her loaves into the oven once prepared for and not to be frightened by Tho oaves baked as They came out brown and Mother Hubbard turned each in her There was visible but on the last were sundry characters or one could tell until there dropped in for a chat a printer of the accustomed to reading things Halloo said that is That is (I shall rise on the what they put on tho ain't asked Mother said Mr. it bad as and Mother Hubbard her It's even said the the little who was not as good a linguist as a feel that I shall soon be gamed and what will those dear dren do then 7" And now that the second loaf was before her marked awfully as the Mother Hubbard really grew thin and pale and lost her I have a said over tho third baking will de- tho points I be- lieve it's meant for and time will Don't you seo how thin I'm And though Mr. Hubbard he to be The third baking day was one of Solemnly na to a funeral the family assembled to assist in the Five loaves came out but one Mother Hubbard's hand but she drew it forth she laid it on the she turned it softly At last she exposed the lower On it were letters printed plain enough to read this and arranged thus Lamented by Her large cried Mrs. to go This is the I do foul Yes I It's awful and so and Mother Hubbard fainted away in the arms of the most terrified of The children the cat the dog The eldest boy ran for the People Hocked to the the The loaf was there was Mother call to quit this She lay in her bed bidding good byo to her family and her strength going She read her and tried not to grieve too The tor shook his The clergyman prayed with nobody doubted that her was at for people were very in those They had been up all night with good little Mother and dawn was and with it she felt sure that she must when clatter over the road and up to the door came a on the a He alighted Ho rattled the He rushed in. no slopping Up stairs ho went to Mother and bolted in Kvery one at He took off hia 1 said heerd Mrs Hubbard was n That she'd hac on her I to You see I was sexton o the church here two years You needn't die o' skeer just Hub for neither speerits or devil nor yet What marks lho loaves is old Mrs. tomb I took it for an oven sto thar war no survivors and bricks wa The last folks before you have 'em printed off cos they made pai but wo was used to ourselves and skulls iu the ginger bread we didn't and I never thought o' for the So you 6eo how it is Miss ant I'm sorry you was I'd orte mentioned it when Isold the Nobody said a Tho ruiniste shut hymn The doctor to tho was deathly si Mother Hubbard broke it. she first thing you got a new bottom to that And tho tone assured tho assemblage o friends that Mother Hubbard was no to 3ie just Indeed ehe up the very next and as soon as the oven was invited everybody to a at which no one dis- covered awful warnings on the or ghostly printings on the Children and Their Children and their Sayings is the tle of a paper in the December number of Hours at It abounds in an- a few of which we quote A friend of mine has two bright little between three and four and Willie about A of their doings and sayings vould fill a but two specimens must Both of them were very fond of nd a mug of it always completed their while ih the country laat it so chanced that they one day girl said eo do you? I don't want any nore milk after the had And ie withdrew very much That when their of milk were placed on the both tood A reason of menomen being Freddy simply declared that he didn't want any milk the cow had had but further re- used lo told of the discovery of the The mother then explained to them hat tho milk did not come to them the cow ale which changed into milk by a wonderful cal akin to that which luced everything in In the ight of this Willie was but Fraddy still turned up hia nose at sticking to tho original After who on these occasions always acted aa ex- took his brother asido into a all lie you can just go on drinking your milk The cow eats and that's what makes it. Now if the cow didn't cat the have you what the Freddy resumed his evening To his mind the only alternative was eating and from that he How observant children and how ears prick up at an intimation that anything is going on which they are not particularly desired to see or A. little fellow by tha sat on the floor one playing with his when some dies called on his Very soon the conversation I am sorry to on a bit of scandal that was in the Remembering suddenly that the child was in thu and not knowing exactly how much ho might understand of what was being an abrupt pauso was made in the con- There aat the busy with hia and apparently not heeding a word of what was being But no the pause come than he turned and rolling on the and laughing as though his little sides would shouted Go right on that's as as I like to hear every day cried a when the sun sot gorgeously red one Christmas how hot heaven is ovor Santa Clans is I In manner somewhat like did one of these natural philosophers account for another Hearing a man dump coal in the bin one with a terrible he shouted Oh now I know what makes It is God putting coal Children are great ing things in the literal the infantile mind the beautiful meta- phor of the Lord walking in tho garden in tho cool of the conveys the idea of a said a little boy to whom this passage was as papa with his hands behind and an old coat UNCLE TOM'S The Story of a Bad for the A who hac acquired tho habit of whitewashing to the soles of her to tho roots of her hair with oue day took a medicated and on emerging from she waa horrified at finding as black as an Th transformation was Not a vestige of the Caucasian was Her physician was hont for in alarm and On his laughed and said you are not you are a medical You are no- longer a but a It is not now a question of medical but of simple chemical I shall analyze Come I submit you to a bath of sulphuric acid diluted with The acid will have the honor of combining with you it will take up tho the medal will produce a and wo shall as a a very pretty The good-natured physician went through with his analysis and tho belle was restored to her membership with tho white Young ladies who arq ambitious of should remember and bo careful what and cosmetics they they any At Topsy's of the problem of her wn personal existence is the most explanation of the production f this It grew While as yet ho form and plan of tho work lay un- in her mind she made a be- instead of a vas a stroke at the very heart of her One on entering his wife's n Professor Stowe saw eral sheets of paper lying loosely about rnd which were covered vith her The death of Tom wasj what he vas first audit was all that had jeen can make hing out of mean o do was the Soon after Hr. who was then publishing in anti-slavery paper in Mrs. Stowe to write a series of for its The way was and she was being called of by faith she went not knowing whither she Her Unale Tom should have a of which his death scene should je the logical consequence and As she mused the fire true starting point was readily and gradually a felicitous story form was in which a of slavery as it might be web waa into which she night with threads of and silver and her brave Tom began to be published in the Rational as a in the ner of 1851, and was continued from week to week until its conclusion in It was not a product of liesure hours She Wrought wilh sad and under most grievous burdens and Her health was tier cares were In charge of a largo and compelled by the sternest of all necessities to make the most of very little and poor help in her household much more of this wonderful book was actually written by Mrs. as she with her lio upon her by the kitchen in moments snatched from her domestic We may be pardoned for saying that if the cuisine was half as well aged as the those who sat Mrs. Stowe's as well as those other innumerable ones who have feasted upon the fruits of her literary were fortunate as Prof. Stowe finely was written in in sadness and ob- no expectation of reward save in the prayers of tho and with a heart almost broken in view of the sufferings which it and the still greator sufferings which it dared not Our older readers need told with what avidity tho weekly instalments this serial were caught tip and devoured up the readers of the National The writer of this article was then a tie boy iu one of the remotest villages o but remembers how Uncle Tom's Cabin wan the theme of universal dis- and how those in his own home and all through the novor before down to any idols of nor served were FO completely demoralized by this novel that they not only read but read it to their and how the paper which contained after being worn out in going through so hands in so many different ho wen ns carefully up and laid away a if the tear stains on them were sacred fts indeed they We were all frou the baby converted into tli the most earnest kind of Strangely afte its publication in the Mrs. Stow proposed its in book forn to Messrs. Philips of Bos the proposition was respectfully she was tl end of it. A woman's shrewdness hat something lo do with securing its pub Tho wife of Mr. o had read the and ad vised her husband to publish i It was offered to an ho remarked to Prof. that i would bring his wife something hand On returning home hia sue cess and the remark of Mr. were reported to Mrs. wit hn eye and a tone in whie a litlle more and still mor incredulity were that she hoped it would bring her enough to purchase what she had not possessed for a long new silk She was not obliged to wait long for that very desirable nor to limit very rigidly in the gratification of so legitimate a desire for only a few mouths its Mr. Jewott made the first settlement with Professor and placed the sum of tea thousand dollars in his more tho I had ever seen in my Largo ad wore thoso and mous as was the sale of tho for Homo reasons which do not require to bo set forth tho enterprise waa far remunerative to tho than to tho and Mrs. Stowe WAS not made rich by her A Genuine Love I was escorting home the lovely to whom I was at the me quite Charlotte could room to spread ine and arrange her voluminous I stood up near there no vacant After a few there came in poor who deposited a basket f clothes on the first and leld in her hands a small while little girl hung to her She tired and but there was io vacant to be Charlotte aight have condensed her but he did Beside sat a very lovely and elegant young who tried by moving down closer o to make space enough for he stranger between herself and Miss At last she and with he sweetest blush I ever she in- the poor woman to be blushed but it was not a pretty blush at and she annoyed at the proximity of he new who leanly and decently though thinly The unknown lady drew the little irl upon her and wrapped leer civet mantle around the half-clad and put her muff over the half rozen little blue So great was the crowd that T alone to The child shivered keen wind blew from the door blew on her unprotected I saw he young lady quietly draw a little woolen shawl from under her she softly put on the shoulders of the little one the mother looking on in confused After a short ime she arose to leave the and have removed the but he unknown gently keep it for The woman did not the her jut her eyes swam with I no- her as the descended to the and I hastily marked the Soon my unknown roso also to I was in for I wanted to follow and discover her but could not leave Miss How was I to see her as she to a mutual who was standing in the door From ere many I learned her name and shorten the much as the lady is now my In the small incident which introduced to me she showed her real A few days after our I bowed her the blessed crimson which I redeemed from the and kept as a There arc sometimes pleasant things to bo found in unexpected certainly I maybe said to have picked my wife in the How a Cuban Belle A cuban and an arrived in New Orleans ing 200 to say nothing of etc. The reporter of the yune who saw her breaks into the following traveling costume was of dark in the last recherche style of walking suit The skirt of rich heavy bordered tit the ex- by a wide from the folds of which peeps out a- rich cately blended with the graceful disclosing tho beautiful foot and turned A shorter of the but of a shade scalloped into at tho end from which aro pendant satin tassels gleaming with diamond reaches the upper edge of the The waist is of the same with a faintly defined vein of red running through the centre of the streamers at- to and are fringed at iho sides and ends with diamond-shaped capo rests upon either and tho points meeting at the waist are secured by opal Pearls gleam in tho rich braids of her black which is worn in the fashion of Mary tho beautiful head is not disfigured with unshapely chignon and the Turkish horse tail floating like a streamer A velvet cap set jauntily ou silken adorned with a small whito secured with a large solitaire small diamonds in tho ears and QLI the while fingers of tho right hand in a diamond Encouraging to The late M. Troplong commenced lifo as a violin and yat before thy close of his career he had been made a peer by King Louis President of the Senate by Emperor It ia not to hU credit that he never referred to his dling days after he became a lany a man who began lifo as peer las been glad to end it as a uis Philippe started as a prince and owe to be a school Ho al turned out got into bad turned and finally sunk nto oblivion as Mr. Thomas fiddled as a young anil a said to have cut out his by hia performances on the The draws this distinction between and one played for and hence was only a he other played as an amateur for tho of himself and friends ho a which sounds and ia never applied by tho vorld to the wretch who saws for A Authors generally think that the monkey race are not capable of ing lasting but their ory ia remarkably tenacious when striking events call it into A which was permitted to run had frequently seen the men vants in the great country with ita huge take down a that stood on the and throw a few grains into the lire to make Jemima and the rest of the maids jump and which they always did such occasions very Pug waited his and when all was still and he had the kitchen all to he clambered got possession of the perched himself gingerly on one of the horizontal wheels placed for support of right ovor the warming ashes an almost ex- tinct wood fire screwed off the top of the and reversed it over the The explosion aent him half way up the Beforo ho was blown iTe wata well-conditioned key as ever you would wish to see on a summer day he can o down a ted nigger in in an avalanche of burning Tho weight with which he pitched upon the hot in the the general flare up aroused him to a senao of his He was missing for Hunger at lasl drove him and he sneaked into tho close anr looking scared and Ho re- covered with but like some great he never got over his elevation and but he be came a sadder and a wiser If ever Pug forgot himself and you had only to take dowr a in hia and hi was his hole like a. ing jaws like a pai of party of men were surveying fo a railroad in New and thoy were entitled to there was along the At one house they thought the proprietor was a little tardy in producing tho It came at and waa tasted by otic of tho party with great much cider did you make this ho was tho if you had had another applo Giving too I once heard a story liko applies to for jome money for a Y. I never give so far I think charity begins at NVe have our own poor ut said will ten dollars to the poor at for live you will Y. I don't but there are our they aro wanting money for thun I will give ten dollars for every live you will give to our day Y. I didn't mean tho Koine missionaries are miserably You ought not to thoHo abroad when our own men neod it then I will give ten lars for every will give Homo I don't mean that said not menu but excuse himself from ing and to calls upon This is tho point of tho ho did He did not mean in away if he could of those peering fellows who are always finding out asked Henry Ward u ho made special preparation during tho week for hia pulpit Mr. replied no. I don't ask my bread or beef what it ia going lo to do for mo when I. cat it. They go iu to the and arc made into mus and and watching the process. So I read and without my asking what my ing and seeing are going specially to I make my sermons in this in the course some subject outlines itself before especially adapted to pulpit I make memoranda of in a drawer that 1 day about half an hour I open this and them all them before and the one which 1 aai in best mood to At live o'clock in the I do tho same for my evening This is not tlie way for a great I have it best suited for and mnu must determine for himself through which ho can the est 8UCC.QSS.'' c
