THE DAILY EVENING. TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1867.
CHRISTMAS STORY
FOR 1067.
NO THOROUGHFARE.
D Y
CHARLES DICKENS AND WILKIE CO LUX
ICorUinued from our lout ttxue.
KKTEB TUB HOUSEKEEPER.
Tho wlrie ruercbant eat la his diniDjr-room
next mom in k to receive the personal applicants
lor tbe vacant poet in bla establishment. It was
an old-fashioned wainscoted room; the panels
ornamented with festoons of flowers carved In
wood; with an oaken lloor, a well-worn Turkey
carpet, and dark mahogany furniture, all of
which had seen service and polish under Peb'jle
Fon Nephew. Toe great sideboard had Bislsted
nt many business dinners given by Pebblcson
INephew to their connection, on the principle of
tLrowlng sprats overboard to catch whales;
and Pebbleson Nephew's comprehensive three
Bided plate-warmer, made to nt the whole front
of the large lircplace, kept watch bncith It
over a sarcophagus-shaped cellaret that lud lu
Its time held ninny a dozen of l'ebbleson
Nephew's wine. But the little rubicund old
bucbelor with a pictail, whose portrait was over
the sideboard (h ml who could easily be Identi
fied ns d(cidedly rebbleson ajid decidedly uot
Nephew), had retired into auother sarcophagus,
nd the plate-warmer had grown as cold as he.
o the golden and black grilling that supported
the cnndclabrn, with black balls in their motiNis
nt the end o( gilded chains, looked as if in their
old ape they had lost all heart for playing at
Imll, and were dolclully exhibiting their chains
In the Missionary line of Inquiry whether they
had not earned emancipation by this time, and
were not erulins and brothers?
Such a Columbus of a moruinir was tho sum
mer morning, that it discovered Cripple Corner.
The light and warmth pierced iu at the open
windows, and lriadlated the pictuieof a lady
hanging over the chimuey-piece, the only other
decoration of the wuIIb.
"My mother at tive-and-twenty," said Mr.'
"Wilding to himself, as his eyes enlhuiiastlcally
lollowed the lieht to the poitrait's face, "I hau?
up here, in order that visitors may admire my
mother in the bloom of her youth and beauty.
My mother ht tilty 1 hune. in the seclusion of my
own chamber, as a remembrance sacred tome.
Oh! It's you, Jarvis !"
These latter words he adJressed to a clerk
"who had tapped at the door, and no ft looked in.
"ifes, ei,., J raereiy Wihed to mention that
It's gone ten, sir, and that there are several
females iu the couminK-hoiisc."
"Dear me !" said the wine merchant, deepen
ing In the pink ot his complexion and whiteuiug
in the white; "are there several? So many as
several ? I had better beein before there are
more. I'll see them one by one, Jarvis, iu the
order cf their arrival."
Hastily intrenching himself in his easy-chair,
at the table, behind a great inkstand, having
first placed a chair on the oihprsideor the table
opposite hia own seat, Mr. Wilding entered on
Li tak with considerable trepidation.
lie ran the guantlet that must be run on any
eucli occasion. There were the usutl species of
profoundly unsympathetic women, aud the usual
species of much too svmpathetis women. There
were buccaneering widows who camo to seize
Aim, and who griped umbrellas under their
arms, as If each umbrella were he, and each
griper had got him. There were towering
maiden ladies who had seen better davs, and
uC came armed with clerical testimonials to
their theology, M if he were Saint Peter with
his keys. There were gentie 'del ,adies who
came to marry him. There were prolessiomU
housekeepers, like non-commissioned ollleers,
who put him through his domestic exercise,
instead of submitting themselves to ca'.echism.
There were languid invalids to whom salary was
not so much au object as the comforts of a pri
vate hospital. There were sensitive creatures
who burst into tears on being addressed, and
had to be restored with glasses of cold water.
There were some respondents who came two
together, a highly promising one and a wholly
unpromising one, of whom the promising ona
answered all questions charmingly, until it
would at last appear that she was not a candi
date ut all, but oul.y the friend of the unpromis
ing one, who bad glowered in absolute silence
and appareut injury.
At last, when the good wine merchant's simple
heart was lulling him, th?re entered an appli
cant quite different from all the rest. A woman,
perhaps fifty, but looking younger, with a face
remarkable for placid cheerfulness, and a
manner no less remarkable for its quiet expres
sion of equability of temper. Nothing in her
dress could have been changed to her advan
tage. Nothing in the noiteless sel '-possession
of her mauner could have been changed to her
aivBtitfP. Nothincr could have been in better
unison with both than her voice when she
answered the question, "What name shall I
Jiave the pleasure of noting down?" with tho
. -words, "My name is Harah Qoldstraw. Mrs.
Goldstraw. My husband has been dead many
3 ears, and we had no family."
Half a dozen questions had scarcely extracted
as much to the purpose from any one else. Tne
voice dwelt so agreeably on Mr. Wilding's ear,
as he made his note, that he was rather long
about it. When he looked up again, Mrs. Gold
straw's glance had naturully gone round the
room, and now returned to him from tbe
chimney-piece. Its expression was one of
frank readiness to be questioned, and to answer
straight.
'Vou will excuse my asking you a few ques
tions?" said the modest wine merchant.
"Oh, surely, sir. Or I should have no busi
ness here."
"Have jou filled the station of housekeeper
"before?"
"Only once. I have lived with the same
widow lady for twelve years ever i-ince 1 lost
my husband. She was an invalid, and Is lately
dead, which is the occasion ot my now wearing
black."
"I do not 3oubt that she has left you the
"best credentials?" said Mr. Wilding.
"I hope I may say tbe very best. I thought it
would save trouble, sir, if I wrote dowu tbe
name and address of her representatives, and
brought it with me" laying a card on the
table.
"You singularly remind me, Mrs. Gollstraw,"
said Wildiur, taking the card beside him, "of a
manner and tone of voice that I was ouce ac
quainted with. Not of an individual 1 feel sure
ol that, though I cannot recall what it is I have
in my mind but of a general bearing. I ought
to add, it was a kind aod pleasant one."
Hue smllud, as she rejoined "At least, I am
vejy C1H(1 0f tbllti plr ,,
xes," said the wine merchant, thouehtfully
repeating big lst phrase, with a momentary
glance at his future housekeeper, "it was a kind
and pleasant one. But that is the moH 1 can
f lH j Mc'morv I fcouietimes like a half-
appear to you, Mrs. GoioUtraw, but so it appears
to me." '
, Probably it appeared to Mrs. Goldstraw in a
similar hght, lor Mic quwi, assented to the
i)iu)uwuuu. mi. milium m,.n oifyred to nut
bimself at once in communication with the gen
tlemen named upon the card a brm (.f nm,in
iu lioctors' Commons.
TotMi Mr,. (liidVtMw
Doctors' Common. ,
thankfully Hs.-euti'd.
being far oir, Mr. Wilding suggested the feasi
bilitv of Mr.-. (Jold-straw's lookmtr in anin. .
In three hours' time. Mrs. Goldstraw readily
undertook to do so. In fine, tbe result of wr.
Wilding's inquiries being eminently satisfactory,
Mrs. Goldstraw was that afternoou engaged (m
her own perfectly fnlr terms) to come to mor
row, and aet up her rest as housekeeper iu
Cripple Corner.
THE norSEKEEFER SPEAKS.
On the next day Mrs. Coldbtruw arrived, to
enter on her domestic duties.
Having settled herself in her own room,
Without troubling the servants, and without
wuBting time, the new housekeeper announce!
hemll as waiting to be favored with any ia-
Biructlons which lirr maiter might wish to give
her. The wino merchant received Mrs. Gold
straw in tho dining-room, In which he had seen
her on the previous day; and, the uhu1 pre
liminary civilities having passed on either side,
tbc two eat down to tako countel together on
the alTntis of the bouse.
"About tho meals, sir?" said Mrs. Goldstraw.
"Have I a large or a 6ma!l number to provide
for ?
"If I can carry out a certain old-fashioned
plan of mine," replied Mr. Wilding, "you will
have a large number to provide for. 1 am a
lonely sinele man, Mrs. Goldstraw; and I hope
to live with all tho persons in ray employment
as If tbey were members of my Inmily. Until
that time comes, you will only have me. and
the new partner whom I expect immediately, to
provide for. What my partner's habits may be,
I cannot yet say. But I may de-crlbo myself as
a man ol regular hours, with an invariable appe
tite that you may depend upon to au ounce."
"About breakfast, pir?" asked Mrs. Goldstraw.
"Is there anything particular ?"
She hesitated, and left the sentence unfin
ished. Her eyes turned slowly away from her
master, and looked towards the chimney-piece.
If ibe bad been a less excellent and experienced
housekeeper, Mr. Wilding might have fancied
that bcr attention was beginning to wander at
tbe very ouUet of the interview.
"Eight o'clock is my breakfast hour," ho re
sumed. "It is one of my virtues to be never
tired of broiled bacon, aud it is one of my vices
to be habitually suspicious of the freshness of
egss." Mrs. Goldstraw looked back at him,
still a little divided between her mastet's chimney-piece
and her master. "I take tea," Mr.
Wilding went on; "and I am perhaps rather
nervous aud fideety about drinking it within a
certain time alter it is made. If my tea stands
too long "
He hesitated, on his side, and left the sentence
unfinished. If he had not been tugaged in dis
cussing a subject of such paramount interest to
liiaiself as his bieakfabt, Mrs. Goldstraw might
have funcicd that hia attention was beginning
to wander at the very outset of the interview.
"It your tea stands too long, sir?" sid the
housekeeper, politely taking up her master's lost
thread.
"It my tea stauds too Ion?," repealed the wine
merchant, mechanically, his mind getting fur
ther and further away from hia breakfast, and
his eyes fixing themselves more and more in
quiring ly on his housekeeper's face. "If my
tea Dear, dear me, Mrs. Goldstraw I what ia
ibe mauner and tone of voice that you remind
me ot? It strikes me even more strongly to day
than it did when I saw you yeiterday. What
can it be ?"
"What cau it be ?" repeated Mrs. Goldstraw.
She Baid the words, evidently thinkin?, while
she spoke them, of something else. The wine
merchant, still looking at her inquiringly, ob
served that her eyes wandered towards the
chimney-piece once more. They fixed on the
portrait of his mother, whicji hung there, and
looked at it with that slight contraction of fhe
brow which accompaules a scarcely conscious
ellortof memory. Mr. Wilding remarked:
"My late clear mother, when she was live and
twenty." Mrs. Goldstraw thanked him with a move
ment of the bead for being at the pains to ex
plain the picture, aud said, with a cleared brow,
that jt was the portrait of a very beautiful lady.
Mr. Wilding, falling back into hn former per
plexity, tried once "more to recover that lost
recollection, associated so closely, and yet so
undiscoverably, with his new housekeeper's
voice and manner.
"Excuse my asking you a question which has
nothing to do with me or my breakfast," he
said. "May I inquire if you have ever occu
pied any other situation than the situation of
housekeeper?"
"Ob, yes, sir. I began life as one of tho nurses
at tbe Foundling."
"Why, that's it!" cried tbc wine merchant,
pushing back his chair, "liy Heaven! Their
manner is the manner you remind me of!"
Iu an astonished look at him, Mrs. Goldstraw
changed color, checked herself, turned her eyes
upon the ground, and snt still and silent.
"What is the matter ?" asked Mr. Wilding.
"Do I imderstand that you were in the Found
ling, sir ?"
"Certainly. lam not ashamed to own it."
"Under the name you now bear?"
"Under the name ot Walter Wilding."
"And tho lady ?"' Mrs. Goldstraw stopped
short, with a look at the portrait which was now
unmistakably a look of alarm.
"Vou mean my mother," interrupted Mr.
Wilding. . , ,
"Your mother." repeated the housekeeper, a
little constrainedly, "removed you from the
Foundling? At what age, sir?"
"At between eleven and twelve years old.
It's quite a romantic adventure, Mrs. Gold
straw." He told the story of the lady having spolccn
to him while he sat at dinner with the other
boys in the Foundling, and of all that had fol
lowed, in his inuoceutly communicative way.
"My poor mother could never have discovered
me," be added, "if she had not met with one of
the matrons who pitied her. The matron con
sented to touch the boy whose name was
'Walter Wilding' as she wentrouLd the dinner
tables and so my mother discovered me again,
after having parte I from me as an in (ant at the
Foundling doors."
At those words Mrs. Goldstraw's hand, resting
on the table, dropped helplessly into hr lap.
She sat, looking at her new master, with a face
that bad turned deadly pale, and with eyes that
expressed an unutterable dismay.
"What does this mean ?" asked the wine mer
chant. "Stop I" he cried. "Is there something
else in the past time which I ought to associate
with you? I remember rov mother telling me
bt another person at the Foundling, to whose
kindness she owed a debt of gratitude. When
she first parted with me, as an infant, one of the
nurses informed her of the name that had been
given to me lu the institution. You were that
nurse ?"
"God forgive me, sir I was that nurso 1"
"God fore ive you?" - ,
"We had better get back, sir (if I may make
so bold as to say so), to my duties in the house."
said Mr. Goldstraw. "Your breukfast-hour is
eight. Do you lunch, or dine, In the middle of
the day t"
The excessive pinkness which Mr. Mi) trey had
noticed in his client's face began to appear there
once more. Mr. Wilding put his hand to his
head, and mastered some momentary confusion
in that quarter, before he spoke agaiu.
"Mrs. Goldstraw," he said, "you aro conceal
ine something from me !"
The housekeeper obstinately repeated, "Please
to favor me, tir, by saying whether you lunch,
or dine, iu tho ruidile of tbe day ?"
"I don't know what 1 do in the middle of the
day. I can't enter into my household affairs,
Mis. Goldstraw, till I know why you regret an
act of kindness to my mother which she always
spoke of gratelully to the end of her life. You
are not doing me a service by your silence. You
are agitating me, you are alarming nie, you are
bringing on tho singing in my head."
His hand went up to bis hend again, and tho
pink In his face deepened by a shade or two.
"It's hard, sir. on just entering your service,"
said the housekeeper, "to say what may cost mo
the loss of your gcod-will. Please to remember,
end how it may, that I only speak becuuse you
have iiisieled on my speaking, and because I see
that I am alaimiuif you by my sileuce. When I
told the poor lady whose portrait you have got
there the name bv which her lnlaut wus christ
ened in the Foundling. I allowed myself to for
get my duty, and dreadful consequences, i am
afraid, have followed from it. I'll tell you the
truth, as plainly as I can. A few months from
the tune when I had informed tho lady of her
bubi'a name, there came to our institution in
the country another lady (a stranger), whose
(ihii'i t uHHioadoot one of our children. She
brought the uiedful permission with her, and
after looking at a great many oi inecuuuren,
without beiug able to makeup her-mind, she
rouk a suddeu iaucy to one or the. Dames a Doy
-under my care. Trv, pray Iry, to compose
yourself, sir 1 It's no" use disgutslug it any
longer. Tlw. 1,11,1 f In. atra itnui tnnk flWOV WH
jj''hlld of that lady whose portrait hangs
u,W.Hi1,d,n? tartcd to bis feet. "Impossi
ble I" he cited out. vehemently. "What ai'8 you
tuking about? WUt absurd story are you tell
ing me now? Tin re's i,er portrait! Haven't
1 told you bo already? iUe portrait of my
jiiotbtr!''
"When that unhappy lady removed you froia
the Foundling, in alter years," said Mrs. Gold
straw, gently, "fche was the victim, and you
were the victim, sir. ot a dreadful mistake."
He dropped back leto his chair. "The room
goes round with me," he said. "My head I my
he ad I" The housekeeper rose in alarm, and
opened the windows. If e .'ore she could get to
the door to call for help, a sudden burst ot tears
relieved the impression which hud at first alaiost
appeared to threaten his life. He signed cn
treatingly to Mk. Goldstraw not to leave him.
Khe waited until the paroxysm of weeping had
worn itself cut. He raised his head as he re
covered himself, and looked at her with the
angrv unreasoning suspicion of a weak roan.
"Mistake ?" he said, wildly repenting her last
word. "How do I knaw you are not mistaken
vnnrsplf ?"
O'There Is no hope that I am mistaken, sir. I
will tell you wuy, wncn jou are ueuer ui o
hear it."
"Now I now 1"
The lone in which he snoke warned Mrs.
Goldstraw that it would be cruel kindness to let
him comfort himself a moment longer with the
vain hope that she might be wrong. A few words
more would end it, and those few words Jshe
determined to speak.
"I have told jou," she said, "that the child of
the lady whose ortrait hangs there was adopted
in its infancy and taken away by a stranger. I
am as certain of what I sav as that I am now
sitting here, obliged to distress you sir, sorely
against my will. l'lea?e to carry your imuu uu.
now, to about three months after that time. I
was then at the Fouudling, in London, waiting
to take some children to our Institution in the
country. There was a questiou that day about
naming au infant a boy who had just been
received. We generally named them out of tbe
Directorv. On this occasion, one of the centlo-
men whomannged tbe Ilospltal.hnppcned to bo
looking over the Kegistcr. He noticed that the
name ot the baby who had Deeu adopted ( vvai
ter Wildine) was scratched out, for the reasou,
of course, that the child had been removed for
good irom our care. 'Here's a name to let,' he
said. 'Give it to the new foundling wbo has
been received to-day. The name was given and
me cmict was cnristeneo. iou, sir, was mat
child."
The wine merchant's head dropped on his
breast. "I was that child 1" he said to himself,
trj ine helplessly to fix the idea in bis mind. " I
was that child "
"Not lone after vou had been received into
the Institution, sir," pursued Mrs. Goldstraw, "I
left my situation there, to be married. If you
will remember that, aud If you can give your
mind to it, you will see for yourself how the
mistake happened. Between eleven and twelvo
years pass-ed before the lady whom you have
believed to be your mother retuined to the
Foundling, to find her son, and remove hiua to ner
own home. The ladv onlv knew that her infant
had beeu called 'Walter Wilding.' The matron,
who took pity on her, could but point out the
only Walter Wilding' known in the Institution.
I, who might have set tho matter riuht, was far
away from the Foundling aud all that belonged
to it. Thete was nothing there was really
nothice thot could prevent this terrible mis
take from taking place. I feel for you I do
indeed, sir I You must tmnir ano wtru reason
that it was an evil hour that I came here (inno
cently enough, I'm sure), to apply lor your
housekceper's.pliee. I feel as if I was to blime I
feel as if I ought to have had more self command.
If I had only been able to keep my face from
showing you what that portrait and what your
own words put into my mind, you need never,
to your dying day, have known what you know
now."
Mr. Wilding looked up suddenly. The Inbred
honesty of tbe man rose in protest against tho
housekeeper's last words. His mind seemed to
steady itse'f, for the moment, under the shock
that bad fallen on it.
"Do you mean to say that you would have
concealed this from me it jou could ?" he ex
claimed. "I hope I should always tell the truth, sir, if I
was asked," said Mrs. Goldstraw. "And I know
it is better for me that I should not have a
eeoret ot this sort weighing on my mind. Bat
is it better for you f What use can it servo
now?"
"What use? Why, good Lord! if your story
is true "
"Should I have told it, sir, as I am now situ
ated, it it had not been tine ?"
"I beg your pardou," said the wine merchant,
"You must make allowance for me. This dread
ful discovery is something I can't i ealize even
yet.- We loved each other so dearly. I felt so
loudly that I was her son. She died, Mrs. Gold
straw, in my arms she oted blessing me as
only a mother could have blessed me. And now,
alter h11 these years, to be told she was not my
mother I O me, O me ! I don't know what I aai
saving I" he cried, as the impulse of self control
under which he bad spoked a moment since
flickered and died out. "It was not this dreadlul
giiet it was something else that I bad it in
my mind to speak of. Yes, yes. You surprised
me you wounded me lust now. You talked as
if you would have hidden this from me, if you
could. Don't talk in that way again. It would
have been a crime to have hloden It. You meau
well, 1 know. I don't want to distress you you
are a kind-hearted woman. But you don't re
member what my position is. She left me all
that 1 possess, in the firm persuasion that I was
her son. I am not her son. I have taken the
place I have innocently got the inheritance of
another man. He must be found How do I
know he is not at this moment in misery, with
out bread to eat ? He must be found I My only
hope of bearing up against the shock that has
fallen on me is the hope ot doing something
which the would have appiovcd. You must
know more. Mrs. Goldstraw. than you have told
roe yet. Who was the stranger who adopted tho
child? lou must have heard the lady's name?"
"I never heard it, sir. I have never seeu her,
or heard of her, since."
"Did she say nothing when she took the child
away? Search your memory. She must have
said something."
"Only one thing, sir, that I can remember. It
was a miseraDiy oaa seasou, mat year, auu
many of the children were suffering from it.
When she took the baby away, the lady said to
rne. lunehintr. 'Don't be alarmed about his
health. He will be brought up in a better
climate than this I am going to take him to
Kwiterzeriand.' "
To Switzerland? What part of Swltzer
land ?
"She didnt say, sir."
"Onlv that faint cleu!" said Mr. Wilding.
"Ani n noartpr of a centurv has Tjase t sinco
the child was taken away I What am I to do V
"I hone vou won't take offense at my freedom,
sir." said Mrs. Goldstraw: "but why should you
distress yourself about what Is to be done ? He
may not be alive now, for anything you know.
And if he is alive, it's hot likely he can be in
any distress. The lady who adopted htui was a
bred and boin lady it was ensy to see that.
And she must have satisfied tbem at the Found
ling that she could provide tor the child, or
thev would never have let her take him away.
If 1 was in vour nlace. sir please to excuse my
saying so 1 should comfort myself with remem
bering that 1 had loveu inai poor lauy.wuoso
portrait you have got there truly loved her as
my mother, and that she had truly loved me as
her son. All she gave to jou, she gave for
thesake'of that love. It never altered while
she lived: ai.d it won't alter. I'm sure, as
lone as you live. How can you have a belter
riuLt, sir, to keep what you have got than
that?"
Mr. Wilding's immovable honesty saw the
fallacy in his housekeeper's point of view at a
glance.
"You don't understand me," he said. "It's
because I loved her that I feel it a duty a sacred
duty to do justice to her sou. If ho is a living
man I must find him, lor my own Bake, as wed
us for his. I shall break down under this dread
ful trial, unless I employ myself actively, in-
ntnnt v emu ov mvseir in aoiutr wnai my con
science tells me ought to be done. I must speak
fomv lawver: I must set mv lawyer at work
before I sleep to-nicbt." He approaches a tube
In the wall of tbe room, ami called down inrouuu
It to the oilice below. "Leave me for a little,
mm fjnhiwf raw." he resumed: "I shall be more
composed, I shall be bi tter able to 6peHk to you
later in the day. We shall get ou well 1 hope
we shall eet on well tOKoiher In spite of what
has happened. It Isn't your fault; I know it
isn't your fault. There! there! shake bauds;
and do tbe best you can in the house I can't
talk about It now."
The door oi eiw d n Mrs. Goldstraw advanced
towirds It, aud Mr. JaivU appeared.
"Send for Mr. Hintrey," ald the wine mer
cliaot. "Pay I want to see him directly."
inr cierx unconsciously suspended the execu
tion of the order by announcing "Mr. Vendale,"
nrd showing in the new partner Jn the firm of
Y lining t.0.
Tray, excuse me for one moment, George
Vendale." said Wlldioir. "I have a word tn mv
to Jarvis. Send for Mr. Blnttey," he repeated
senu ai once."
Mr. Jarvis laid a letter on the table before he
left the room.
"From our correspondents at Neucbatel. I
think, sir. The letter has got the Swiss
pos.mark."
LZo oe continuea.
CITY ORDINANCES.
AN ORDINANCE
To make an appropriation for the use and
support of I lie Ulrard College for Orphans for
vim jeBr inwt.
Section 1. Tbe Select and Common Counolls
of the City of Philadelphia doorunln. That the
sum or one nuDureii auu unriy-iive inousauu
live hundred and flfiy dollars ($13,560;. be and
the same is hereby appropriated out of the In
come of the residuary portion of tbe Ulrard
Enlate for the year eighteen hundred and sixty
eight, for the use aud snpport ol the Ulrard
College for tbe same year, said appropriation to
oe appiieu bb luuowni
HOUSEHOLD.
Item 1. Bnbslstence, forty-four thousand dol
lars (JH.000 )
Item 2 Clothing, bed clothing, and outfits,
twenty-five thousand dollars ($&),000.)
ItemS. Salary of matron, six hundred and
fifty dollars (SUOO.)
Hem 4. Halury of steward, one thonsand dol
lars (81UU0.)
Item 5. (Salary of six govornesses, fifteen hun
dred dollars i815l)0.)
Item 0. (Salary of four Prefects, two thousand
four hundred dollum ( If 2 1(H)).
Hem 7. salary ol superintendent of manual
labor, one ttiousaed dollars (tflUOO).
Item 8. (Salary of two physicians, one thousand
two hundred dollars (f 12i)(J).
Jttm 0. (Salary of dentist, three hundred and
fifty dollars ($360).
Hem 10. Wages, eleven thousand dollars
($11,000).
Hem 11. Furniture and repairs to furniture,
three thousand dollars (8300U).
Hera 12. Fuel, three thousand dollars ($3000).
Item 13. Our, two thousand two hundred and
fifty dollars (SOO).
Item 14. lie pa Irs and Improvements of build
ings, ten thousand Uollara (810,000).
Item 15. Oronnln and improvements, four
hundred dollars ($400).
Item 18. Fllilnu in and repairing culvert, five
hundred dollars (8000).
Item 17. Incidental, six hundred dollars
(8000).
INSTRUCTION.
Item 18. Salary of President, three thousand
dollars (S3000).
Item lit. Salary of Professor of Industrial
Science, two thousand two hundred and fifty
dollars (S225J).
Item 20. (Salary of Professor of Rhetoric, two
tboutuind two bundled and fiity dollars
(2-60).
Item 21. Salary of Professor of Drawing, two
thousand dollars (82000)
Item 22. (salary of Professor of French, two
thousand two hundred and fifty dollars
($';2&0).
Item 23. Salary of Professor of Mathematics,
one thousand six hundred dollars (tltiOO).
Item 24. (Salary of Professor ot Musio, four
hundred dollars ($4i0).
Hera 25. Salary of three Teachers, nine" hun
dred dollars (S'JOO).
Hem 2U. Saliviy of three Teachers, one thou
sand one hundred and twenty-five dollars
(81125).
lit m 27. Salary of two Teachers, eight hundred
and fifty dollars (St-'uO).
Item 28. Salary of two Teachers, one thousand
and tilty dollars (S1050).
Item 29. Salai y of two Teachers, one thousand
three hundred and fifty dollars (S 135.1).
Item 30. School and Chapel furniture, five
hundred dolluis (8500).
Item SI. School and Philosophical apparatus,
four hundred dollars (f 100).
Item 32. Books and .stationery, one thousand
five hundred dollars ($1500).
Item 33. Chemical Laboratory Utensils and
Chemicals, three hundred dollars (t 100 1.
Item 34. Incidentals, seventy-five dollars
(875).
ACCOUNTS.
Item 35. Salary of Secretary and Sunerln
terdent ol blnding-out, two thousand dollars
(J2CC0).
Item 36. Salary of Messenger, six hundred
dollars S0UO .
Item 37. Printing, newspapers, and advertis
ing, five hundred dollars (SoOO),
LIBKAKY.
Item 88. Books and binding, four hundred
dollars (400).
DISCIPLINE AND DISCHARGE.
Item 30. Expenses of binding out, one hun
dred dollars (8100).
Hem 40. Premiums and awards, two hundred
and fifty dollars (S250).
Item 41. Expeuhtsof admission, fifty dollars
(oo.;
MANUAL LAIIOR.
Item 42. Tools, machinery and materials, two
thousand dollars (82000).
Section 2. That warrants for the payment of
said appropriation shall be drawn in oon
formlly with existing ordinances.
JOSEPH F. MARCER,
President of Common Council.
Attest
Uknjamin IT. Haines,
Clerk of Select Council.
JOSliUA SPERINO,
President of Select Council.
Approved this eighteenth day of December,
Anno Domini one thousand elht hundred and
sixty-seven (A. D. lMi7).
MORTON McMICHAEL,
12 IS) Jt Mayor ot Philadelphia,
STOVES, RANGES, ETC,
NOTICE. THE UNDERSIGNED
would call attention of the public to his
fc-W UOJ-.DH.N JiAUi.Hl UltIN AUK.
Tbla ia bd entirely new heater. Illaiiocon-
trucled aa to at ouce commend luieir to general favor,
being a combination of wrought and cast iron. It la
very bluijiie in Us coumruciiou, aud la perfectly atr
tiKbt; self-cleaning, having noplpea or drum to be
taken out aiid cleaned, it Is so arranged with upright
flue to produce a larger amount of heat from the
tine weight of coal thau'any furnace now In nse.
Tbe hygronietrlo condition of the air as produced by
niy new arrangement ol evaporation will at once de
luonktrate that It Is tbe only Hot Air Furnace that
will produce a perfectly healthy atmonpliere.
Those In want or a complete fleutlng Apparatus
would do weU to call and examine theuuldeu Kale.
CHAKU'S WILLIAMS,
Km, U32 aud 113 tUAHK Kr btreet,
J?hlladMlpbia.
A large assortment of Cooking Ranges, t ire-Board
Sloven, Low Jjown Urates, Ventilators, etc, always
on baud.
JS. B. Jobbing of all kinds promptly done. tl0
THOWPSON'8 LONDON KITCTIENEBi
OR.Kt!KtilKAN KAN UK, for Fault) lea, Ho
tels, 01 fuuuc iiiHiiiutioua. m i wiui jjjjt
FF.RKNT HIZK8. A Iso. Philadelphia Kanaes.
Hot-Alr Furnaces, Portable H enters, LowduwiiUrrtes,
Flreboard Hloves, Ualb Boilers. Btewhole Plates,
boilers, oklng Ktoves. etc,, wbolexaleand retail, by
the manufacturer. BHARPK A THOMBON,
lirrstutbtm No. iM) N. BJCOONi) BlreeU
INSTRUCTION.
QTEVEN8DALE INSTITUTE.
.HOARDING BCHOOlTioR YOUNG LADIE8.
Terms Hoard, Tuition, etc-pei scholastic year.foOO
NO EXTRAS.
Circulars at Messrs. Fulrbanks & Swing's, No, 711
CHK&NUT Street; also at Messrs. T. B. terson
Urotberu'. No. SOS CHESNCT Street.
Address, pernonalty or by note,
K FOSTER BROWNE, Principal,
10 8 thmtl South Amboy, N.J.
COAL.
BMIDDLFTON & CO., DEALERS IN
. HAK1.F1UH LFUIOU and tAULK VK1N
(DAL. Jkfcpl dry under cover. Prepared eprniily
for family nse. "Yard, No. 122ft VV A HHXMU TON
Avenue. Office, No, 6M WALNUT Street. M
WILLIAM STILL'S COAL DEPOT, Xoa
1216. MI8, and 1741 WASHINGTON Avenue.
The bent qualities of Coal, fur dotneallo ox (team iiae,
uiuUheu to any fait uf the oily. uagm
INSURAPiCE COMPANIES.
1829 CHARTER rERPETUAE
Franklin Fire Insurance Co.
or rmi.AnEK.rniA.
OFFICK:
OS. SS AHD4S7 CUKSNUT ST BEET.
ASSETS OK OCTOBER 1,1907,
MrSftv.aeit.
Capital-
Accrued burpius.......,. .
Premiums - m --
.l.lTJWlO
INCOMR FOR mi,
tauo.uuo.
CN6RTTLKD CLAIMS,
9ifia.
ISSEft PAID SINCE 1MI OTEB
93,500,000.
Perpetual and Temporary Pollclesion Liberal Terms.
D1KJU.TORS.
Charles N. Bancker,
George Falea,
A irred Fitter,
Francis W. Lewta, M. D
Thomas Sparka,
William S. Grant,
louias w agner,
Samuel Grant,
deorge W, Blchards,
Isaac ui,
CHARLES N. BaNCKKK. President,
,rviir- raio, v ic t'reaiaent,
J. W. MCALL1NTKK. Secretary pro teui. (iul2l
BROOKLYN LIFE INSURANCE
Or MEW TOBH, MUTUAL.
POLICIES NON-FORFKITABLE. Thirty days
grace given In payment ot Premiums. No extra
charge for residence or travel In any portion of the
world. Dividends declared ainually, and paid In
cash. Dividend in 1667, 40 per cent.
COLTON & SIIELDEN,
GENERAL AGKNTS,
X. E. C'OBNEB SEVENTH AND C1IESNUT.
Agenta and Solicitors wanted In all the cities and
towns in Pennsylvania and Southern New Jer
J m
INSURANCE COMPANY
OF
NOItTH AMERICA:
OFFICE, No. 182 WALNUT ST., PHILADELPHIA.
INCORPORATED 1794. CHARTER PERPETUAL.
CAPITAL, 9500,000.
AKNETS JANUABT 8, 1807 l,7l,t7'S
INSURES MARINE, INLAND TRANSPORTA
TION AND FIRB RISKS.
DIRECTORS.
George L. Harrison,
Francis R. Oope,
Edward it. Trotter,
Edward B. Clarke,
William Cummmga,
T. Cb jr tou Hemy,
Alfred D. Je-.i,up,
Ji.K.. I UTht..
bamuel W. Jones,
John A. Brown,
Charles Taylor,
Ambrose White,
Ricbard D. Wood,
W illiam Welsh,
H. Morns Wain,
joun mason
Louis C. Madeira,
,Aiv, uujjjjuw. i-reaiaent.
Cbablks Piatt, secretary. '
WILLIAM BUEHLKK, Harrlsbnrg, Pa.. Central
Agent lor the State of Pennsylvania. 12Cj
QIRARD FIRE AND MARINE
INSURANCE COMPANY,
(No. 630)
N. E. COR. CDE3NUT AND SEVENTH STS.,
PHILADELPHIA,
CAPITAL AND kllBPLUs OTEB 9300,000.
INCOME 1B 166, 910a,ttV4.
Losses Paid and Accrued in 1866,
97,000.
Of which amount not (woo remain unpaid at this data
tl'JUiw.cw ol property has.been successfully insured
by this Company In thirteen years, ana Elgut Hun.
tiled Losses by Fixe ptowptiy paia.
DIRECTORS.
I'h nrr ft. fViv.ti
bilM Terkes, Jr.,
Furman Hheppurd,
Tlx mas ldacK.eilar,l
John Kupplee.
Altrea . Ulllett,
N. S. Lawrence,
Cbarlts I. Dupout,
Uu.n I.' 1- - .. .
jonn w, ciagnorn,
riunepu a lapu, 0., u.
. IT H oil AH OUAVEN, President?.
A. B. OILLETT, Vice-President.
8 22fmw JAM EM B. A LVORP, Secretary.
piRE INSURANCE.
laTEKPOOl, AND LONDON AND OLOBE
INfeUBANCE COMPANY.
ASSETS OVJEB I6,000,00Q
INVESTED IN T11K U.S., OVEB-9100,000
PHILADELPHIA BOARD.
Lemuel Coffin, Esq., lObarles 8. Smith. Esq..
Jueepli W. Lewis, Esq., Henry A, Duurliig. Juml.
Edward Biter. Esq.
All losses promptly adjusted without reference to
England.
PHILADELPHIA OFFICE,
Xfo. 0 MERCHANTS EXCHANQE,
ATWOOD SMITH,
10 17 thstnsm General Agent for Pennsylvania. -
PROVIDENT LIFE AND TRUST COMPANY
OF PHILADELPHIA, W1"A M 1
TONo, 111 B. FOURTH Mtreet.
INCORPORATED u MONTH Zi
CAPITAL, tli,U0., PAID IN.
,InnJanc ?u Lives, by Yearly Premiums; or by 8.
10, or lib year Premiums, Nou-lorlelture. '
Annuities granted ou favorable lerms.
Term Policies, Children's Endowments.
This ConipHny, while givliigihe lusured theseourlty
ol a Paid-up capital, will divide the entire urotlls ol
tbe Llle business among Its policy holders
Moueys received at inltresi, and paid on demand.
Authorised by charter to execute Trusts, and to act
as Fxeculur or Administrator. Adslgnee, or Ouardiau,
aud in other hduciary capacities, uuuer appointment
ol any Court ol this Commonwealth, or any person or
persons, or bodies politic or corporate,
1I BKCTUiiH.
RAMUEL P. BHIPLKY, illFNRY HAINES,
Joshua h, morhah, t. wimtak bk-iw.
RICHARD WOOD, W. a LUNUSTKKfH
RICHARD CADBURY, WILLIAM UAlKJiK,
i llAHLKS F. COFFIN.
BAMUEL R. 611 1 PL H V, ROWLAND PARRY,
President. Actuary,
WITLTAM O. LONUbTUKrn, Vice-President.
TJbOMAtJ WIKTAR. M D., J. B. TOWNdF.ND,
1 tl Medical Examiner. Legal Adviser,
H(EMX INbTJKANCE COMPANY OP Fill.
LA DFJLVHIA.
INCORPORATED 1804 CHARTER PERPETUAL.
N o. '2X4 W ALN U T ISli eel, opposite the Exchange,
This Company lubures from loss or daniatfu by
F'lHK,
on liberal terms on buildings, merchandise, fur
niture, etc., lor limned periods, aud permaueutly
on buildipits by aepot.lt ot premium.
Tbe Company ban beeu in active operation for more
than B1XTY YEA KM, during which ail .'ossos have
been promptly ai'Junted and paid.
John L. Hodge,
OHH.
David Lewis,
Beujauiin luting,
Thomas 11. Powers,
A. R, Mclleury,
Kdmuud I'KHilllon,
Samuel Wucox,
Louis C. Norrls.
JA . lit Mauouy,
John T. Lew is,
William B. Uraut,
Robert W. Leuming-,
1). Clark Wharton,
Lawrence Lewu, Jr.,
JOHN R. w
UCHERF.R, President.
BAurxi, Wilcox, Secretary.
FIRE INSURANCE EXCLUS1VELY.-THB
PENNSYLVANIA EIRE INbU KANOE COM
PANY Incorporated lz& Charter Perpetual No.
110 W A LN UT tureel, opposite ludepeudeuo tHjuaro
This company, lavorauiy xuowu to tne ooujuiuuuj
lor over lorly years, continues to limure atfHlum lo
or dauias-e by Are on public or Private Kuildlugs,
either permanently or for a limited time. Also, on
Furniture, blocks of Oooda, and HrchnH gene
rally, on liberal trms. . u.i...
1 fcilr Capital, loKether with a large HnroluaJniid,
slnvested lu the most oarelul manner, which enables
themi ooder to the insured au undoubted security U,
the cam of loss.
Daniel Hmlth, Jr..
job Devereas:,
TliouiasHmilh,
Henry Lew in.
Alexander UeufOB,
Isaac Haslehuinl.
Thomas Jtonoi"".
J. Ulllinguaiu PeU,
Daniel Haddock. Jr.
DANIEL tM ITH, J A., President,
FINANCIAL,
BANKING MOUSE
03r
JayCooke&(p.
03 and 114, So. THIRD ST. PHILAF A.
Daslers In all Government Seouritiesi'
OLD S-SOs WANTED
II EXCHANGE FOR 1EW
A UBEBiL PIITEBEKCE ULuWEDi
Compound Interest Notes Wanted
IKTEBEST AUOWE1) ON IOSIT.
CXUeUoiii mad. Blocks bought and sold oa
Oommlaalon,
Bpeclsi btulneM iwoo mm oOatl on s reserved for
adlea, 19 M Sm
yE HATE FOR SALE
TOE
FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS
OF TUE
Central Taclfic Kallroad Company,
AT (95) NINETY-FIVE,
And Accrued Interest la Currency.
These Bonds are payable by law, principal aud Inte
rest, In gold. Interest payable 1st of January and 1st
of July.
Wewtll take Governments .In exchange, allowing
tbe full market price.
We recommend them to Investors as a first-class
Security , and will give at all times the latest pam
phlets and general Information upon application to us 1
xiaving a iuu supply oi tnese uu.Mia on nana, we
Me prepared to DELIVKLl THEM AT ONU&
DE HAVEN & CRO
Banker sad Dealers In Governments,
12 51m
NO. 40 NOTJTII TRIBl? ST.
II 8. SECURITIES
W SI
A SPECIALTY,
SMITH, RANDOLPH & CO.
BANKERS AND BHOKER3,
NO, 16 S. TUIBD MT,,NO. NANSIA1
raiLASXLPHIA, I XKW TOBK. '
Orders for Stocks and Gold executed in Phila
delphia and New York. 11
JANUARY COUPONS
I
cp i
Union Pacific Railroad Bonds
AND
MVE.TWENTIES,
BOUGHT OB CASHED IN GOLD AT BES1;
B, BT i
& co., h
MABKET BATES.
W. PAINTER
BANKERS,
No. 86 South THIRD Street,
12 12 PHILADELPHIA ,
QOUPONS OF h
UKION PACIFIC RAILROAD
A
CENTRAL TACIFIC RAILIiOA
10AP!
5-SO COUPONS
DUE 1st JANUARY, BOUGHT BY
DE HA YEN & BROTHER
lOtrp
NO. 40 m. THIRD STREET.
JJNION TACIFIC RAILROAD CCj
NOTICE.
THE COUPONS OT THE FIBS I MORTQAGlJ
BONDS OK THS
Union Pacific Railroad Co.
DUE JANUABT 1,188,
WILL SE PAID ON AND AFTER THAT DAT J
IN GOLD COIN,
FREE OF GOVERNMENT TAX,
At the Company's Office, No. 20 NASSAU Btreet, Ne
Yorlr.
12 10 8W JOHN J. CISCO, TREASURERS
TO RENT.
TO LET,
Large Third-Storv Room,
Well Lighted, with or without Pswi
APPLY AT
Uttf
HO. IOU KAIITH Tinnn I
T ECTDRE8. A NEW COTJT1SE OP LIT
I J ture. as belDg Uiill vered attbe New Yorkllusui
ol A nnUimv, tnibruciUK tlie hulijwl-: 11
Hew to live and wliat to live lor Youtb, lfaturlt!
and old age AI auliood generally reviewed ' j
causes of luillgeHHiD, llatuleuce. ana Nervous dlsetu,:
acoouiitea lor Marriage uullueouUlcaliy cuUHlUeifc
eu-. eic." i
Pocket volumes containing tbese lectures will i
forwarded to parties unable to attend, on receipt I
fonr stamps, by aUdretslnsr " fciKCKKTARV, Ne'
York Museum of Anatomy aud btilenoe. No.
BROADWAY, New York." 12 6 am
UNION PASTE AND SIZING COMPANY?!
A Paste for Uox-BiakerB, Bookbinders, PaL',
bangers, bboeuikkeis, docket-book Alakera. hi
Pouters, etc. It will uot sour. Is cheap aud alwaJ
ready lor use. Refer to J. B. LWIiiroU A L'o., Devi
A Keller, William ilaun, l'bflailejpbla Jnufrt
llr.,!liur. A merlrau Tiai'tbOCiely.aild lltt.u.i
frole Aseuts. I. L, CBAULN A CO., No, Uo uifi
AtlOlCU CUtel, St