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Show ftttf 0)tfc gunctum. Published erery WEDSESDAV and SATURDAY tij die Oiiben FuuuaiiiNU CoMrAHi. The Light in the Window. 'Til keep the light in the window, Sandy, till you come back." "NeTer mind, mother," sai l the boy, of the He never again forsook her. A son and a better man than Sandy came to be, tnose of the seaport say they may never see again. And if 'you go thither, they will point sights. you out the little cottage window at Before he slept bo stood a long while which, strong in her faith of his return, leaning over the taffraif, smoking and Captain Cameron's mother kept a light thinking if he erer thought. burning for him through all the nights It was an evil lingering fur the Aga- of twenty years. memnon. A spark from the cigar held in an aUndiug at the door in an uncertain, unsteady hand, regarded by eyes not slouching kind of a way; "I might be brighter for recent draughts of brandy, e late." made its way somehow, or "It's dark along the lane," said the demon-borninto the place where the would cargo of the vessel had been stowed mat her. "and a bit of candle-ligh- t be ill spared if you got a tumble by it. away, and at the dead of night they of h saw stealing through the I'll keep a candle burning till you come the back." planks beneath them red and yellow Scotch wom- tongues of flarae. She was a The vessel was on Are! an, healthy and active, though no longer "Fire! fire! fire!" the word rang its young; and as she talked she w orked, on, ironing the linen she had washed and way to heaven, shouted by every tongue starched, and heaping it, like a snow- on board. The scene that followed beggars dedrift, in a great basket beside her. Four other children were in the room, scription. None who survived it could girls and boys, too young to do much ever forget it. There was no hope from the first, for themselves; but Sundy was eighteen, a tall, handsome fellow, with ripe lips none save in the boats. and cheeks, and dancing eyes. They were filled at once. Who could forget it! Oh, who could Sandy only would hare been a little steadier," the mother often sighed; but forget it ? The old mnn pointing to the light on to be '"steady" was not Sandy's forte. OtT, ever and always to the river-nidshore, and crying. where other lounging boys watched the "I wanted to see the children once boats come in at the ferry, or plunged more before I died !" stones into the water fur the village pet, The captain, deathly pale, showing the great Newfoundland, "Whiskers" that strange bravery which suilors only possess at such a time. by name, to fetch. No harm in that, the mother thought, Changing from a dictatorial old hard if the boys had been all good; but even- drinker to a very hero; clinging in roings at the public house, they were mantic fondness to his ship; and while worse; and the decent washerwoman he did his best for every other soul on shivered as she listened to her boy's board, forgetting himself, and vowing homecoming step at night, lent some day to sink with her. The young passenger and his bride he should copy Squire i'eeler's boys and she clinging to him; the mother with drink too much. Squire Peeler's boys were her terror, the babe bound to her breast praying though they were the sons of the richest on her knees amid the tumult; the orluan in the neighborhood. phan child going home to his grandBut now, as Sandy stood in the door, parents, wonder-stricke- n and yet scarceo tall, and fair, and bonnie, the mothly conscious of the danger. The sailors changed, like the captain, er's hourt grew light. "Ilo'd be sure to settle down and help into heroes. Who could forget all this? her with the bairns someday," she said. No doubt of that; he was but a bit of Amidst them all, gigantio in his a boy now; and she ironed on until her strength, sobered at last by the awful work was done, and then put the candle scene around him, toiled Sundy Camerin the window to light the boy along on. the dark lane at bis homecoming. They remembered him well whose The candle burnt itself away and sunk lives he saved. The bronzed man with into the socket, and the very wiek light hair and the grip of Hercules. So smouldered out, leaving only smell and the boats and rafts some to live, some smoke behind it, and still lit no Sandy to dio were all afloat. All gone into across tke threshold of his humble home, the darkness, and struggling forms had for that night Sandy ran away. vanished from the waves, and alone toThe lifo at home was too hard for him. gether, the flames approaching them The restraints of his mother's watchful like dancing demons, stood old Captain Oaks and his first mate, Sandy Camereye annoyed him. To do hit own will, to have his own on. way, Sandy left his home behind him; "Captain," said Sandy, "it's most but he had grace enough to remember, over." with a pang, these words: "Ay, ay, lad," said the captain. "I'll keep a light burning till ye come "Give us your fist. We've sailed toback, Sandy." gether a good while. We seem bound Some vague hope of getting rich, and for the long voyage now. Lord help us, doing great things for those at home, Sandy!" was in his mind, er he believed so; but "There's a chance yet, may be," a selfish desire to escape the drudgery said th first mat. uTrjr for it. Onp and the restraint gave the actual lmpulae tain." to bis steps. "No," said the sailor. "I go with her. lie shipped as a sailor the next day, No wife wails for me, no child. She's and began in earnest a wild, reckless my wifo and children all in one. Try, sailor's life. you. I go down with her." That was the last Sandy Cameron saw It suited him. Now and then, when the storm was at its height, and far in or heard of the captain. A rush and roar from below, where the distance the lamps of some tail lighthouse shone like a great red eye, the the spirits were stored, ended the tiny nicker of that window sheltered words. Then came blindness and silence, and candle would dawn upon his memory, and he would hear his mother's voice, timer paused for him. ' wind-born- e, mid-watc- hard-feature- d 'If o, saying: "I'll keep it burning until ye come back, Sandy." Now and then, amid the yarns and ongs of the forecastle merry-makinhe heard the crooning of the tunes she used to sing over her work old Scot-tie- h ballads, or perhaps some hymns handed down from the time when the old Covenanters worshiped God and defied man among the purple heather- They never lured her home to help her, though. The years rolled on, and even this ene sting of conscience ceased its paining. In those days there were no such beings as sober sailors, nor captains of temperance principles. Hard drinkers were most old salts, and most young ones. Sundy drank with the rest He grew broad and stout. His cheek was brouicd, his hair changed its tint, his voice grew deep and coirtte. He was in no way a good man, but he was a good sailor.. As the years passed he came to be an offioer first nisto of the Agamemnon. His pockets were full enough for all his purposes. The sea was better than land to him, and when on shore he led that kind of boisterous life that drives the thought of "mother" from men's Tery souls. lie had friends, at least he thought so men who knew when his pay jingled in his pockets, women who did not blush to receive the lavish gifts from the jovial sailor. He was not niggardly; nay, once he emptied his lost remaining silver into a beggar's hand. It happened to be a prettyish beggar girl, and he had gone on a three years cruise shoeless; and during the ship, wreck, or when the Agamemnon found a sister vessel in distress, Sandy was bravest of the brave; but he had never been brave enough nor generous enough to go back to the eastward seaport where his mother had left the candle burning for him in the window never, never. Five years were gone, and ten, and fifteen, and twenty. A man of nearly forty years stood in Sandy Cameron's shoes a mau who led the wildest life under the moon ashore; a man to whom fiery brandy was as water to a child; a man who remembered God only in his oaths; when the Agamemnon came, after a long and stormy Toyage, just within sight of the const within sight of its lighthouse at least, for in the darkness of a stormy night nothing else was visible. Battered by the storms already, bruised by the waves, wounded by the rocks, still the Ag.tmemon fought her way homeward; by the morrow eve solid earth would be beneath the feet COMMERCIAL. y mariners for once, all longed for it, even wild Sandy Cameron. He was glad. He watched the towering lamps with joy, and swore that they were pleasant wave-wear- at least, of Ogden Junction, Ogden City, Utah Territory, July 16, 1870. J Office WHOLESALE TRICE DRY GOODS. to $1.00 per yrd. Lustres 22c to 25c BAREGE 65c. to 65c. 16c. to 20s. BROWN 8IIEETIX08 BLANKETS $6.00 to $20.00 per pair. BLEACH MUSLINS 15c. to 22c. BED IICKIN08-25-C. to 40c- BRILLIANTS 35c. to 62e. CAMBRICS 13c. to 16c. to $2.25 CARPETING, CHECKS 25c. to 32e. CORSET JEANS 18c. to 23c. COTTON ADES 30c. to 45c. COTTON YARN-$- 20 to $3. per bonch. lYEJXaXalOBL " The Tirst American Flag. As "the flag of the free" was so jubilantly honored on the "glorious Fourth," we here make space for its history, which cannot be aught else but interesting te true Americans and Jovers of liberty in the United States in particular, and the world at large. We quote it from a paper read by Wm. J. Canby, Esq., at a recent meeting of the Pennsylvania Historical Society. Its title was "The First Star Spangled Banner Made in America, and Who Made It." He discovered, in tracing the history of this national emblem, that the first instances when the stars and stripes were unfurled were at the siege of Fort Schuyler, August 17, 1777, and upon an occasion just about one year prior to that time. The brig Nancy was chartered by the Continental Congress t o procures military stores in the West Indies, during the latter part of 1775. While at Porto Itico, of July of the ensuing year, the information came that the colonies had declared their independence, and with this information came the description of the flag that had been accepted as a national banner. A young man, Captain Thomas Manden-villset to work to make one and successfully accomplished it. The Aug was unfurled and saluted with thirteen guns. When the brig Nancy was on her return voyage she was hemmed in by British vessels off Cape May. Her officers succeeded in removing all the munitions to the shore, and when the last boat put off a young man in it, John Hancock jumped into the sea, swam to the vessel, ran up the shrouds of the mast, and, securing the flag, brought it triumphantly to shore.through a hot fire from the British e, men-of-wa- r. The first American flag, however, ac cording to the design and approval of Congress, was made by Mrs. Elizabeth Koss. Three of her daughters still live in our vicinity to confirm this fact, founding their belief, not upon what they saw, for it was many years before they were born, but upon what their mother had often told them. A niece of this lady, Mrs. Margaret Boggs, aged ninety-fiv- e years, now lives in Geruian-towand is conversant with the fact. The fact is not generally known that to Philadelphia not only belongs the honor of flinging the first star spangled banner to the breeze, but to a Philadelphia lady belongs the honor of having made n, it. DAMASK-1.25to$- THE 4 1.50 DELAINES " " " 18c. to 22c. Armo.ru 22c. to 24c. to 45c. All Wool-3- 7c. Hiulin 18c. to 22c. 25c. to 37c. per yd. DENIMS DUCKING 3Sc. FRENCH MERINOS-41-FLANNELS, White " 35 A Red 0c. Opera 17c. to 30c. UTAH LUMBER OGDEN JUNCTION IS PUBLISHED CHEAPER THAN to $1.50 15c. to 52c. GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, &c. 15c. per lb. ALLSPICE 45c. per lb. AXE HELVES $4.50 to $5.50 per dox. BACON 23J4e per lb. BARLEY, 3c. per lb. BEESWAX $0.75 per lb. 60c. per lb. BORAX ALUM BRAN A SHORTS-41.- 25 to $1.75, perewt. BEEF 8c. to 15c per lb at shop ; lOr.oa foot. BUTTER 20c. t 25c per lb. BAKING POWDER $3.00 to $4.00 per do. BK0OM3-46.- 50 to $7. per do. BRASS KETTLES 70c. per tb. CURRANTS 24c per lb, by bl. COFFEE, Rio per tk, 28c per lb. CHEESE 25c. to 27c. per lb. 65c. per ft. CLOVES CANDLES, 12 oi. $0.00 per box. CANDY, Fancy 32c to 40c per lb. " Stick 28c. CHURNS, Patent Julian, $6.75 to $12-5COAL $9.00 to $11.00 per ton. COD FISH 14c. to 16c. per lb. COPPERAS 13c. to 15c. CUDBEAR 55c CAMPHOR $1.40 COMlOSITION 75e. CORN-41- .25 per bittbel. CHICKENS 50c, each. EGGS 20c Per do. FLOUR $4.00 per dark. OINUER inc. to Kto. per ID. GLASS 8x10 per box, $6.50. " 10 x 12, $6.75. GLUE 40c. per lb. HAY Full supply, $7. to $10. per ton. HOOP IRON 14c. to 15c. per lb. HORSE SHOES$12.50 a keg. INDIGO $2.00 per lb. IKONS, SAD 12J. per lb. LYE $11. 00 per cane. LEAD White $1. to $6.00 per can. Bar 20c. per lb. LOGWOOD 28c. to 33c. per lb. LAMPBLACK 20c. per lb. LUMBER $3J to $5.00 per hundred feet. MUSTARD 55c to 65c. per lb. MATCH ES $8.00 to $11.00 per ease. MADDER 35c. per lb. METAL, BABBIT 10c. per lb. sea-por- t; And already enjoys an circulation. extensiT IMPORTED. J. WILLIAMS & CO. ARE PREPARED TO FURNISH THE Inhabitants ITS COLCMNi COXTAII of Ogden city and Vicinity with a Article First-Clas- s OF LUMBER, Cheaper than ever before offered to the Public Having a Large Supply of every kind on hand, RELIABLE LOCAL ITEMS, HOME CORRESPONDENCE, FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE, EDUCATIONAL, AGRICULTURAL, and onr Mill running in the Best Grove of Tim- RAILWAY ber in Utah, we will furnish Lumber, at the U. P. R.R. Depot, at tha following rates: DOMESTIC Joists,, Flooring and Sheeting. ai $35 per Thousand. Tber THE OGDEN JUNCTION jmivi Is itippliad with the latest improTed facilities for turning out eTry description S In the finest style. Flooring, Finish ing Lumber and Picketing, at $40. per M. Shingles CHEAPER EVER OFFERED BEFORE. Subscriber's Attention! f JOB PRINTING ORDERS FosterSf Hand Bills, Letter Heads, BUI Heads, Deeds, Blanks, Order Books, Invitations, rarty Tickets, A-- 20o. , MS. Flank, Scantling, 8.50 S AND ALL KINDS OF a WASH-TUB- SATURDAY ANY to 75c. well-know- V r, AND GINGHAMS HICKORY 18c. to 27c. HOSE, Ladiei' $2.25 to $6i per dot. " GenU' half-- $l .25 to $4.00 per dot. JACONET 30c. to SOo. JEANS i5c. to 60c. to 95c. LINEN, Irislt-4-5c. " Table, 90c. to $1.25 PRINTS 9c. t 14e. RAVEN'S DUCK 33Jc. ., 8HAWL8-$8.- 25 to $9.50. SKIRT BRAIDS 85c. per dot. THREAD, Spool 60c. to 90c. per dot. " Linen 75c. to $1.25 per lb TOWELLING 17e. to 20c. per yd. WHEEL-HEAD- SEMI-WEEKi- EVERY WEDNESDAY & BETTER The house in which it was made still stands. No, 239 Arch street (the old number being eighty-ninthe last of an old row. It is related that when Congress had decided upon the design, Cutomnl Geortre Ross and General Wash. ington visited Mrs. Ross and asked her to make it. She said, "I don't know whether I can, but I'll try," and directly suggested to the gentlemen that the de sign was wrong, in that the stars were six cornered, and not five cornered, as they should be. This was corrected, she made the flag. Congress accepted it, and for half a dozen years this la ly furnished the government with all its national flags, having, of course, a large assistance. This lady was also the wife of Claypole, one of the lineal descendants At last there was sound again the of Oliver Cromwell. r sounI of waters. Sight the red lamps FIRST-CLAS- S of the lighthouse. Fooling that of the A lliininn Footprint Found wet sand against his face. 800 Feet Under Ground. Some strange providence had saved lifo. Cameron's Sandy Col. T. J. Graham, whil nn tha Kan. Bruised and weak, he lay motionless awha river a few since, saw the for a long while bruised and weak, Derfect imrjression days nf a. man's font, in & still he staggered to his feet at last. of cannel coul taken from the mines Above him his sailor eye used to re- lump $1.7 per gal. i vuuneiion, ten nines oeiow tne tans. MOLASSES, n member such things towered He tells US that thn imnrpaginii nf thn Sugar Drip, $2.00 per gal. rocks kissed by a struggling foot is exact NUTMEGS $1.75 per lb. and perfect in all its details, moonlight. no room to doubt its identity for NAILS $8.25 to $8.75 per keg. The sea had flung him into the arms leaving a moment. A hill eight hundred feet OILS, LINSEED-$2.- 25 per gal. of his native and up above, a " FISII-$1- .85 over the coal mine high is ; immediately . . i. - i. .i. i man, wnndering along the shore, watch- !ii um wuiuu " 8PKRM ta.60 " me iooipnni was taten. as ing the lighthouse signals perhaps, was the Col. is a good " MACHINE $2.15 of a man's foot judge Parties requiring a Bill for Building will do singing a hymn, a Methodist hymn: COAL $S.50 per cans (or a woman's either), and a gentleman "There's Hirht lu the window fur thee, brother, of rcliahilit v. wt lpnvn thn trantneristu well to give us a call, as we will furnish a General OATS 3c. per lb. .p.- There's Unlit in the window for thee." to figure this out. I'orttmoth Black-4- 5c. lb. PEPPER, Ohio) per Bill of Lumber cheaper than any other house in down tears And then the rolled the " I rwune, Cayenne 70c. per lb. sailor's cheeks, and his softened heart the line. PEACHES 10c. per lb. yearned for the mother who had (aid: Xeed Judge know the Law? PORK Sold at 20c to 25c. Bought at 15c. to 20c. We will delirer in Salt Lake City at an advance "111 keep a light till ye come back, POTATOES 50c. to c. per bushel. From the World Sandy." of $2.50 per thousand om Ogden price. PUTTY 15c. per lb. The President having appointed a Twenty years ago and she was nearly $1.00 STOVE dot. POLISH, per fifty then. Probably she was dead; but man to be Associate Justice of the SuPICKETS, $5.00 per 100. some one might be in the old home yet preme Court of the District of Columbia RAISINS $6.75 per box. who could tell him of her. who never was admitted to the Bar, and RICE 15c. to 17c. per lb. And so in the midnight shadows the who is now a twelve hundred dollar de To FARMERS and MERsailor staggered up the river path, partment clerk in Washington, the Bar of ROSIN 15c. per lb. CHANTS of UTAH we oiler ROPE, MANILLA 30c. to 33c. per lb. through the changed streets, and, ted by the district have held an indignation per box. the compass of his heart, to the lane meeting, and appointed a committee of SOAP, OLIVE, I. X. (his advantage: W'c will SODA $10.25 per cane. where his boyhood's home had been so three Republicans to protest against the STARCH 24c per ft. before. confirmation. A Judge of the Court long SULPHUR 20c. The lane was no more a street of called upon the President, but Grant taid TAKE ALL KIXDS OF PA Y, . SALT, Fine houses now; but at its end, or he dreamt, he thought his nominee vat competent to be SALTS, Epaom 15c. a judge at he had read law two yeart. Sandy saw a candle gleam. At Market Rates: Eggs, Butter, Flour, or other SALTPETRE 30c. He drew nearer. No fancy misled productions of the Farm. Also Stock ol any kind: SUGAR, Brown 15c. to 17c. per ft. him. Charles Dickon's IViil. M Yes, between the cut tains stood a canSheep, Cows, Work Cattle; Wagons, etc. " Crushed $21.00 per sack dle in very truth, ond in the window of The subjoined extract from the will Store Pay at cash rates, or eren Cash itself not TEA lb. $1.50 to $2.25 per his own old home. of Charles Dickens will be read with in He staggered on, his heart beating TOBACCO, Nat Leaf $1.10 per ft. refused. terest: " NAVY A GRAPE 75e. wildly, lie struck, the door with his W are also prepared to furnish desire . nam that "I be inscribed hand. my TRUNKS, $5.00 to $10.00. W ASHBOARDS $8.50 per dot. He waited, trembling, and the door in plain Anglish letters on my tomb. f WHEAT, $1.35 per bushel. , opened; at it stood an old, old woman, conjure my friends on no account to ' with white hair his mother. He knew make me the subject of any monument, $9. her stern, strong features and her blue memorial, or testimonial whatever. I WASHING MACHINE, Doty', $17.00. ' rest my claim to the remembrance of , $5.00 per seat. eyes still. "Wha's this V she said, In her Scotch my country on my published works, and WOOD $7. to $. per eord TIIAX to the remembrance of my friends i accent. their experience of me in addition there And he answered: "A poor sailor, shipwrecked and need- to. 'I commit my soul to the mercy of Uocl, through, our Lord and Savior Jesus ing shelter." "Come in," she said, "come in and Christ; and I exhori my dear children warm ye. It's a bitter night. The can- humbly to try to guide themselves by the On good security we will also dle led ye here, nn, dou'U It's burnt teaching of the New Testament, in its gtre time, on ? rATMENT, for largo orders. these twenty years. Ye wonder at that. broad spirit, and to put no faith in any "yyK WILL TAKE ON SUBSCRIPTION, We shall open an extensire Lnmber Yard, in I'd a boy once. He left me. The can- man's narrow construction of its letter Ogden, in a few daya. Due notice will be giTen of dle burns for him. I've a fancy it will here or there." CLEAN COTTON wile him back yet; and I've gane withlocality. Parties in Salt Lake City can look out. M we For which we will allow burn-inout bread mony a time to keep it '. You may sometimes stir a fire with an shall open up there in our line In a few weeks, The ithers are all dead; but I'll not but you can never keep the an gire trery on6 a chance to build and believe'he's gane; and I said, 'I'll keep umbrella, Cents lb. Improre on wttu a poker. at cheap rate. it alight till ye come back, Sandy,' and rain All I will." communications to be addressed for the The latest marriage announcements allow THREE CENTS per lb. for ' And then, as he flung himself on his read thus: No cards, no cake, no present to presknees before her, she knew that Sandy ents, no wedding trip, no honeymoon, no JOSHUA WILLIAMS A CO, ,'jj,r "P jonr Xag and bring them along to had come back indeed. Weber Station, C. P. R. R. divorce. e) 1870! FOR THE LIST. Black-o- Oc. ALPACAS, LuiiibeB, Cards, etc., ete. Promptly attended: te and FIRST-CLAS- S WORKMANSHIP GUARANTEED. RAGS Five J ,'o per BOOKBINDING IX ALL 1TB BRANCHES- - |