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Volume XYII-Ne. 169.
LANCASTER, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1881
Price Tw Celts.
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T)EAD! BEAU
Light and Medium Weight
Frem $G te $18 in Price,
and we also make loonier anything that you
may want in the line of
CLOTHING.
Hi Department
B being fitted up for all kind ei fine work.
The styleit of Clothing; for Sprint; arc coining
in every day anil such heaps of reliable Cloth
ing lit a wonder te everybody. Trusting you
will favor us with a call, as the prices are
made the very lowest for which the goods can
be bought anywhere.
MEN'S SUITS
Frem 34.50 te $25.
The money will be refunded en all goods
net satisfactory
WILLIAMSON & FOSTER,
ONE-PRICE HOUSE,
36 EAST KING STREET,
LANCASTER, PA.
-Clothing, Hats Trunks and Furnishing
Goods. iflfi-lydAw
Special Announcement!
New is your time te secure bargain.- in
CLOTHING!
Tomakcreon; for our large stock of Cloth
ing for Spring, new being manufactured, we
will make sweeping reductions throughout
our large stock of
HEAVY WIGHT CLOTHING,
CON8I8TIKO OF
Overcoats, Suits, &c,
MEN, BOYS AND YOUTHS.
ODDS AND EXDS OFrCLOTHlXG IX COATS,
PANTS AND TESTS, BELOW COST.
Call early te secure the liest bargain-".
D. B. Hostetter & Sen,
24 CENTRE SQUARE,
6-lyrt
LANCASTER. PA.
A RARE CHANCE!
The Greatest Reduction ever made in FIXE
WOOLENS for GENTS' WEAR at
H. GERHAET'S
ilisleit
A Large Assortment of Genuine
English & Scotch Suiting,
.sold during the Fall Season from 30 te 40.
A Suit will be made up te order in the Best
Style irem 20 te 30.
HEAVY WEIGHT DOMESTIC
Suiting and Overceating,
Reduced in the same proportion. All goods
warranted as represented.
The above reduction will ler cash only, and
terthe next
THIRTY DAYS.
H.GERHART,
Ke. 51 North Queen Street. .
rAfERUAxaisas, .
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KW SPRING STYLES WALL PAPER.
NEW SPRING STYLES WALL PAPER.
NEW SPRING STYLES WALL PAPER.
NEW SPRING STYLES WALL PAPER.
NEW SPRING STYLES WALL PAPER.
New Spring Styles Window Shades
New Spring Styles Window Shades
New Spring Styles Window Shades
New Spring Styles Window Shades
:e:
PHARES W. PRY,
PHARES W. PRY,
PHARES W. PRY,
PHARBS W. PRY,
Ne. D7 NORTH QUEEN STRETE.
Ne. 07 NORTH' QUEEN STREET.
Ne. 57 NORTH QUEEN STREET.
Ne. 57 NORTH QUEEN STREET.
OVERCOATS
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Elf THINGS!
NEW THINGS !
JOHN WANAMAKER'S;
13Ui Street, Market and Chestnut,
DRESS GOODS.
Among our new all-wool dress-labrles is
an extraordinary flannel, if it Is a flannel. It
is se extraordinary as te take it out of flannels
altogether, perhaps ; but we have no better
name ter it. Many ladies will be obliged for
this notice.
JOHN -WAXAMAKER.
Third clrcle, southeast from the centre.
DRESS GOODS.
What art and skill are doing in cotton
dress fabrics ! Twe counters arc gorgeous
witli them. The lowest price is 5 cents a
yatd, and the highest 62 cents ; but they are
made in soft and delicate ways by texture or
print or dye. te rival the stuffs et luxury.
Here arc the familiar names :
Scotch zephyrs Foulards
Madras ginghams Sateens
Seersuckers Lawas
Chintzes Cretonnes
Oxford cloths Memles
Toile d' Alsace Cheviots
Printed shirtings
In almost every name are triumphs. Yeu arc
net ettcn asked te admire se modest weiks of
art and skill; but see it you cm pass these
counters witneut a new view e! modern
achievements. JOHN WANAMAKER.
Fourth circle, northwest from centre
COTTON DRESS GOODS.
A lady who has bought $15 worth of
sateens at several visits here, and who hss
been everywhere in town, says there's" no such
collection ei wonderful goods anywhere. Our
usertinent is se large that many patterns are
nowhere cleperlercc; bat this is especially
true et small ltgurcd goods, the choicest of all.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Fourth circle, northeast from centre.
"reOLLEN DRESS GOODS.
Y Seme neat checks te-day, browns and
grays, tKUnch, 25 cents. Will pass ler all-wool ;
but a little cotton is carded in.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Third ciiclc, cast Irem centre.
13UUE LINENS.
We hav'nt a mixed linen in the store, net
even in handkerchiefs.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Third, fourth and fifth circles, southwest
Irem the centre.
Chestnut, Thirteenth and Market streets, and
City hall squat c.
SCOTCH GINGHAMS.
Mere Scotch zephyr ginghams are in (te
day, but net all by any means. Our price is 31
cents ; 40 is the New Yerk pi ice.
New don't suppose that such u diflerence as
that means anything whatever In the ging-
iinms. 11 uecs net. it means simpiy mat we
buy et the makers, and save one profit.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Fourth circle, Thirtcentli-street-entrance.
DOMESTIC GINGHAMS.
It you would rather buy a coarser and
heavier gingham, that leeks as well a little
way eif, at 15 cents, the Madras zephyrs, et
American make, are what you want, They are
fait colors te.
Then the zanztbars, at IS cents, are a little
heavier, and closer woven. The modest Cheviot-plaids
at 15 cents and seersuckers at 15 and
18 cents are here also.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Fourth circle north irem centre.
DOMESTIC CALICOES.
Chintz ei lndiee-blue around with white
polka-dot et various sires, and ether little fig-J
Uics 1101 unilKe me tieis 01 .auicriiaiu inane, ut
10 cents, is a great favorite.
Calicoes in general arc 8 cents ; but some
patterns are 5J, simply because they are net
liked se well.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Fourth circle, northeast Irem centre.
LADIES' CLOTHS.
An entire counter Is devoted te ladies'
cloth ler dresses. There's nothing new in
them but the colors, plain and illuminated.
Xew ladies' cloths are here. It is useless te say
mere et these favorite stutls.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Third circle, south from centre.
INFANTS' CLOTHING
of like range ; very rich te Very plain,
borne specimens arc shewh in the Arcade.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Southwest corner et building.
XTEW FANCY BRYON COLLARS
1 for ladies and children ; mere than 80
styles, some of them liumoieus (such as have
been worn by yeunggcntlemcn et late). Ladles
w 111 dlller about he shape as well as about the
print.
At this counter last Saturday the sales
amounted te ever 8X cellars and cuffs. One or
the busy places.
First circle, southwest from the centre.
JOHN WANAMAKER,
JOHN WANAMAKER,
Chestnut, Thirteenth and Market and City Hall Square,
PHILADELPHIA.
IEOX BITTERS.
ritON 1UTTEKS.
IRON BITTERS!
A TRUE TONIO. SURE APPETISER.
IRON HITTERS arc highly recommended ler all diseases requiring a certain and effi
cient tonic; especially
INDIGESTION, DYSPEPSIA, INTERMITTENT FEVERS, WANT OP APPE
TITE, LOSS OP STRENGTH, LACK OP ENERGY, &c.
It enriches the bleed, strengthens the muscles, and gives new life te the nerves. It acts
pp. et useful and amusing reading tint free.
BROWN CHEMICAL COMPANY,
123-lyd&w
notice.
TTENTION, HOUSEKEEPERS!
MOVING! MOVING! MOVING!
Personal attention given te all kind of MOVINGS this Spring.
BEST OF CARE AND REASONABLE PRICES.
49-Leavc orders for day and date el moving, or address te
J. C. HOUGHTON,
CARE OF
M- A. HOUGHTON,
Ne. 25 NORTH QUEEN STREET, LANCASTER, PA.
GROCERIES.
A Z. KINGWALT'S
Cheap Liquor and Grocery Stere
NO. 205 WEST KING STREET.
febW-lyd
8 O'CLOCK COFFEE IS THIS PUREST
and best ler the Breakfast Table.
ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC TEA CO.,
114 North Queen Street.
I'ebi2-2:ud Lancaster, Pa
UOODS.
N
TEW THINGS:
-AT-
Philadelphia, Pa.
BLACK DRESS GOODS.
New things in black dress goods ei almost
all sorts arc ready.
Silk grenadines came some lime age; new
the wool and -Ilk and wool grenadines are
here ; and the variety is greater than we ever
had before greater than anybody ever had, se
lar as we knew.
Xew armurcs. plain and figucd, are .notable
especially the latter. Among them arc armures,
with small figures and plaids, that can be seen
only when looked at in certain ways. The
draping of a dress of these would appear te be
nartlv nlain and nartv figured or nlaid. The
figures and plaids seem te have no existence
at all. Yeu can't find them except byaccidenl.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Next outer circle, Chestnut-street entrance.
I IN ENS.
j Just received a large quantity of Irish
shirting linens; uncommonly satisfactery: 23
te 75 cts. Seme remnants at three-quarters
value.
Sheeting and pillow linens et many makers.
Netice, if you please, 100-ineh sheeting at$l,
and 45 inch pillow at. 45 cents.
A certain three-quarter napkin at $! a dozen
has been compared with one considered a bar
gain elsewhere at a higher price.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
City-hall-square cntrace.
HOSIERY.
Misses' and beys' French ribbed hose at
40 te 55 cents according te size; C te 8 inch;
is said te be selling elsewhere at G5 te 80 cents.
Cardinal, navy blue and ecru.
JOHN WAXAMAKER.
Outer circle. Chestnut-street entrance.
SHIRTING LINEN
of a certain make which we knewall about
we have In ten weights. Tin; ce.irsi'St is suit
able for men's drawers; the finest ferthe finest
shirt lrents.
This linen we order six months in advance
et our wants, have it bleached wholly en the
gras, finished without dressing, and labeled
"Old-fashioned linen." It is a perfect linen,
if care and skill can produce such. We sell it
by the slilc of Richardson linen at two-thirds
te three-quarters the price of the latter, winch
is net a whit better. 28 te 73 cents.
All our linens are bought with 1 ust such care
and skill as this statement implies ; and the
largeness of our dealing enables us te add an
inducement in price also.
Ruyers et table, sheeting and pillow linens,
towels, vc.,, for hotels and institutions had
better call here first.
JOHN WAXAMAKER.
Cltii hall-square entrance.
IINEN REMNANTS.
j Anether maker's short-length remnants,
similar te theshirtiug linens mentioned above,
in four weights, value as geed 50 te 75 cents,
arc selling ull at one price, 40 cents.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
City-hall-squarc entrance.
SUMMER SKIRTS. .
Pin-striped sateen (the French cotton silk
like labile new se popular) skirt trimmeil with
plaiting et same, or with that and hand of silk
cmbrelderr, is the favorite of all the washable
skirts we lfave ; and the variety is beyond .be
lief almost.
Net washable, also for summer, is Italian
cloth or Farmer-fiat In, made handsome in a
great many ways by combinations, plnitings,
bindings, pipings, cmbreideiies, ,te.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Southwest corner ei building.
HANDKERCHIEFS.
New fancy white handkerchief; ninny.
New initials : new letters, a different letter ler
each price. New colored borders. Linen cen
ters with colored silk borders (nowhere else,
Crebably), require te be washed with care;
nt with care they wash perfectly ; colors last.
Woven color borders, plaids and stripes of
course. Net a mixed cotton and linen hand
kerchief in the store.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Third circle, southwest from pentrc.
UNDERWEAR,
fine muslin and cambric underwear,
richly decorated with lace and embroidery,
carclully finely and skilfully made. This we
have In greater variety than you will find else
where; but there is no difficulty in getting
this grade of work.
Underwear of a plainer fort is difficult te get
carefully and skiltully made; but we have a
really great collection of it. Fer mere than n
year past we have been raising the standard of
manufacture and cultluatlng simpler styles.
We have work thc;iike of which is in no ether
house, here or in New Yerk. The ideal of It is
the best et liomc-i.nule underwear at such
prices as will caiuc it te be preferred te home
made and step home-making as fast as the
work becomes known.
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Southwest corner of building.
ritON HITTERS.
BALTIMORE, MD.
M INVENTORS.
W. H. BABOOOK,
Atterney-atrLaw, el Washington, D. C, form
erly an examiner in U. S. Patent Office, offers
his services as solicitor before the U. S. and
Foreign Patent Offices. Careful work at lair
prices. Was associate et Mr. Jacob Stauffcr, el
Lancaster, until the lattcr's death.
110-3mdAw
1 RAIN f ECULATION
JT In large or small amounts. 925 or $20,000
Wrltc W. T. SOULE & CO., Commission Mcr
chants, 130 La Halle street, Chicago, III., for clx
ulars.
m28-iyd
Hancaster Intelligencer.
FRIDAY EVENING, MABCH 18, 1881.
Tbc Conuneter's Story.
An Episode of indwell's Bar.
I think it is Emersen who says : "When
you pay for your ticket and get into the
car, you have te guess, what geed com
pany you shall find there. Yeu buy much
that is net rendered in the bill." I have
found this remark eminently true en
several occasions, particularly when my
life-long friend Ruth bears me company.
Ruth is the most unconventional of
women. She travels, as she docs every
thing else, with whole-seuled earnestness,
and finds bread where most people could
gather only stones. Thus, recently, being
in the rear car of the long train, she pre
ferred standing upon the platform and
drinking in at one draught that magnifi
cent valley of the Sacramento, through
which we seemed flying; r.ither than by
tantalizing sips, as one has te de from be
hind a narrow car window.
I followed her. I always de. And,
holding en te the narrow railing, we felt
somewhat like two lest comets whirling
through space. Soeu the deer behind us
banged, and a gcutlcman in the mid-summer
of life, with a face classically beauti
ful, joined us. He beamed en us almost
literally. Prem the dimple in his fair,
soft chin, te the ring of brown, silky hair,
which lay upon his bread, smooth fore
head, the expression scintillated with in
telligent geed nature. Withal, there was
such a retrospective back-ground te the
sunny brightness that, alter a lew common-places,
Ruth, the daring, honest im
pudent creature, said, looking up mean
while into his face with a smile se honest
and kindly he would have been a Ber
serker net te have reflected it :
"Sir, permit me te remark that you arc
a physical incongruity
"Net se bad as that, madanie, I hops. I
am merely a conductor, as by this time
you have discovered, and a pretty well
balanced one, independent of my avoirdu
pois." "But your thoughtful face, sir, that is
what perplexes me. It should belong te a
body but one-third the weight of yours,"
.suggested Ruth, the wise disciple of La
vater. "3Iy face is all right." he replied,
stroking Ins checks and chin with an air
of marvelous self complacency. " It stop step
ped growing ten years age, but it is here,
here," touching the region of his dia
phragm with the tip of his plump fore fere
liuycr, "that contentment and my rare
geed luck shows itself. Once I was as
thin as Peter Schcmmer.s shadow, aud"
he paused, looking into Ruth's clear gray
eyes as if he would sound her soul's
depths "I am strangely tempted te tell
you my bit of a romance, for there is a
stretch ahead, and you leek like one of
the kind te enjoy a touch et nature. Isn't
it se?"
The conductor had struck the key-note
of our needs. We were pining for a verit
able California story, told in an unconven
tional way outside the well read romances
of Bret Ilartc and the Argonaut ; te be
told, tee, under such peculiar circumstan
ces would be an added spice, and thus we
besought him te immediately yield te
temptation.
" I am an old stager," he said, " at
least it was as far back as the- spring of
'50 that, with a blanket strapped upon my
Pack, fifty cents in my pant's pockets and
the biggest stock of hope and untried en
ergy that ever made a lad's heart as light
as a balloon, I tramped along here in search
for the "geld diggin's." My ambition was
higher than these buttcs yonder, by thou
sands of feet, aud the top was te be cap
ped with solid geld," pointing as he spoke
te the three singular and isolated peaks
we were just then passing, known as the
Maryvillc Buttes, whose volcanic heights
looked as inaccessible te us as their peaks
seemed brown and barren.
" It appears te me," said Ruth measur
ing the almost precipitous sides of these
lefty and mysterious hills, " that when a
man aspires te touch the sky, he would
want a higher guerdon than mere geld,
net, however, that I held the metal in
contempt."
" I had, madam, and that was the whole
matter. I was desperately in love that
was a solemn factcxpregsed in as few
words as possible and I tfelieved that she
loved me , but the top of Mount Shasta
was net mere attainable te me than Jen
nic. Her father, an old Philadelphia
druggist, had money, and I had none. He
was proud as Lucifer, and as ambitious
for his daughter as he was proud. I felt
that I ceuid ' move a mountain,' if I could
find :v mountain te move, se Jennie and I
said geed-bye one afternoon under an old
oak in Fail-mount park, and in the very
depths of my heart. I believed she would
be true te me. It was net a seven days'
ride from New Yerk te San Francisce
these days, and the tall, slender, hungry,
penniless lad who tramped along here
twenty-nine years age, sc.ekiug his fortune
like another Dick Wkittingten, was a
weary and home sick one, as well."
"By here,' which you have twice used,
de you mean this veritable valley of the
Sacramento ?" asked Ruth.
"The very same. My objective point
was a place new famous in the annals of
that period, called 4 Bidwcll's Bar,' en ac
count of a rich bar in the Feather river,
full of 'golden sand,' wlrch was discov
ered by General Bidwcll. The place was
many miles from me ; the country was
sparsely settled ; I did net knew a soul
(for even scamps 'were scarce In these
early days,) and se my courage and my
legs gave out together. Pulling off my
old beets about five o'clock ene sultry
day, I bared my blistered feet te the cool
evening breeze, and creeping into a clump
of young manzanitas, fell asleep, hoping
that I would never awake again this side
of the stars. I did, however, conscious
that my tees were being licked in a gentle
fashion, and discovered that it was being
done by a young brown setter deg, about
as hungry-looking and generally dilapi
dated as I was myself. Where he came
from I never knew, but looking into his
half humau eye?, we speedily entered into
a sort of dumb compact te trudge en te--gcther.
I found that the peer fellow (I
never could call him a brute) had a sere
knee, iuilamed aud bleeding. I tore a strip
off from my last handkerchief te bind it
up, and in place of the geed Samaritan's
oil and wine, gave him my laet scrap of
cold bacon. It is strange, but forlorn as I
was in these days, I recall them with a
tender pleasure, almost unaccountable.
If I had been raised a Brahmin, I would
have belivcrcd that some immortal spirit
of unfailing cheerfulness and unending
resources was imprisoned in that deg's
body. Did you ever read the fairy legend
of 'The White.Cat.' who after she had
persuaded the yeuus prince, her lever, te
cut off her head aud tail and threw them
in the fire,-suddenly steed before him a
woman as fair as Aurera? Fntz, that was
the name by which I called the deg,
looked at' me with Jennie's brown
eyes, half-roguish, half-thoughtful,
and together wc resumed our
journey. Ner would I have followed in
the wake of the young prince; even had I
known the result would be similar, for
Fritz, the deg, was invaluable, just as he
was. AU lonesomeness was gene, new
that he rarely left my side, aud although
our shadows had grown less by the time
we reached the 'Bar,' our immaterial en
tities were in prime order for anything in
the shape of adventure. ' Have never
seen any geld dug.' Then I'll net at this
late day spoil your first impressions of a
miner's camp by describing mine, as I ap
proached Bidwcll's Bar. I may say
though, that one might have supposed an
earthquake or tornado had been at work
there, tearing up the hundreds of thou
sands of cubic feet that had been moved
and removed by mqrtal hands in their fran
tic and persistent search for geld. The
'Bar' was a world in miniature. Almest
every nationality was there represeuted,and
almost every feature of human kind but
humanity. Armed with a pick, pan and
shovel, I, like hundreds of ethers, began
te dig, and burrow, and wash dirt. But
my labor and its results would net balauce,
for somehow my little leather bag of geld
dust grew no heavier, toil as I would.
Wages being geed, I stepped digging, and
hired myself as a sort of camp scullion. I
did every kind of jobbing, within the range
of a miner's wants. Washing dirty flau-
nei shirts and cotton overalls, patching
leather trousers, and cooking flapjacks is
net the most dignified and flower-strewn
path te fortune you must knew ; and te a
boy, whose ideas of chivalry, independence
and deeds of valor were purely and intense
ly Byronic,such a fete, you must acknowl
edge, was a sort of poetic iujustice. My
aim, though, was te earn enough money
with which te buy a certain claim of which
I knew, and that I had, in advance, labeled
1 Bonanza.' I might have succeeded, but
I was prostrated by a malarial fever, aud
for days and weeks lay unconscious, at the
tender mercy of a few rough Welsh
raiuers with human heaits. My little
heard of money and my energy melted
away together, like spring suew. But for
Fritz, I'd have died of disappointment
alone. He had adbptcd the ' Never say
die ' motto, and I as often read in his glo
rious eyes the sentence, ' Yeu great old
coward ! At him again !' as a tender aud
appreciative sympathy which the gift of
speech could net have made mere assur
ing. Mv nursed had pitched me a tent en
the south side of a low hill, and left me te
get well at my leisure. My ' bottom dol
lar, had dwindled into the value of a
dime, my legs into the thickness of a pair
of tongs (for all appetite was gene), and
one night hope failed me. Believing I
was going te die, I resolved te de the fair
thing by Jennie, appraise her of the event
and ask her te forget me. .By the flicker
ing light of a bit of tallow candb I com
menced the letter the first I had written
for months.- I thought aloud as I wrote.
Fritz lay beside me, his nose wedged be
tween his forepaws, but I knew bv the
twitching of his cars that he understood
every word I was writing. I had reached
the climax of renunciation and wretch
edness or rather my expression of it
when he suddenly rose and went out. I
seen heard him pawing, and scratching
and tearing the earth about six feet from
me, as though he was under contract te
dig a tunuel te China before daylight.
Thinking he had found the burrow of a
wolf or fox I called him off, but he was as
deaf as a rock te my voice. Seizing the
caudle I hurried te the spot, around which
lay a half-bushel of gravel, which he had
loosened, when my eye caught the gleam
of a dull read streak that veined a piece of
quartz about the size of an egg, lying
among the fresh earth. Wenld you be
lieve it ? That streak was worth fifty dol
lars, for it was virgin geld. Ner was it
the only ene upon that hillside. Fritz had
feuud a lode (thanks te a gopher), and I
thereby had found a fortune. As seen as
possible, I had the geld of that precious
stene wrought into a ring of my own de
signing ; all of it, at least, but the con
tents of one blunt corner, which, in its na
tive roughness. I had mounted en a simple
breech. Sending these te Jennie, I "
"An act of great generosity, sir, I
think," interrupted Ruth, with a laugh
ing glint in her eye. "One would have
thought you'd have preset ved such a piece
of rare geed fortune as a memorial
stone."
" Yeu anticipate me, madame. It was
as a memorial that I sent my first bit of
treasure, but I expected te get it back
again within two years, and the girl with
it "
'"And did you?"
' Ne ; nor even received a line of ac
knowledgment that my offer had been ac
cepted. Nothing finds geld quicker than
geld, when a man has once get a fair
share of it, and in two years I had, in
various ways, secured twenty thousand
dollars Investing it, as I thought safely,
I returned te Philadelphia in all the pride
of a conquering here. My story ought
te end here ; te windip with the chime
of wedding bells and a 'beautiful Rachel '
as my reward for faithful serving, but I
had scarcely arrived when I heard, inci
dental, that Jennie had gene with her
father te Europe, nor left one sign that
she had remembered me."
"Yeu certainly did net let that fact
dampen the ardor of your pursuit?"
queried Ruth; "yen followed her, of
course."
"Of course I did no such thing,madarac.
I returned te San Francisce and plunged
into the excitement with a recklessness
that a woman cannot understand. Six
months after I had lest every dollar, but
by that time, I had learned that experi
ence is worth nothing as solid capital until
it has been dearly bought. I whistled my
rhyme :
Less and gain, pleasure and pain,
Balance the see-saw' of lite.
in the sensitive ears of my faithful Fritz,
hugged his brown head clese te my shoul sheul shoul
dereon't laugh, that deg was my friend
rolled up my sleeves and again went te
work with a vigor that I knew meant sue
cess if the vein held out. It did, and five
years afterwards I had a bank account
which ran largely into the thousands. I
invested In land. By that time I was a
bachelor of nearly thirty. Hard knocks
and my one big disappointment had
shaken all the romance out of me, and
when I again went East it was en business
connected with the constructing of this
railroad."
"And you had quite outlived your boy
ish fancy, as your heart began te lese its
youth ?" said Ruth& with the least bit of
cynicism in her tone.
"I think Fritz knew," said the conduc
tor, quickly, "I had become almost a
misanthrope for his sake. If I left him te
go into society such as we had for a
few hours, he either whined like a sick
child or kept up such an increasing bark
ing and baying that, te save him from be
ing shot as a nuisance, I went no place
where it was impossible for him te accom
pany me. The old fellow went with me
even te New Yerk, and en the journey I
often caught myself cogitating hew he-
born in a wilderness of wild mustard, and
as fend of camp-life as an Iudian would
take te the constraints of an old city.
Well, I had net been in New Yerk a week
before there was a strong , tugging at my
heart te run down te Philadelphia. Net that
it was home for me. for my parents had
died before I first left it. I called the de
sire the charm of association,' and it led
me. There, as I first went down Arch
'street my peer deg lest his wits and the
sober dignity of his maturity. He had a
remarkably fine scent, I always knew-that;
but no sooner had he turned into that par
ticular street than, with nose close te the
ground and rigid tail, he ran zig-zag te
and fro, as though he was en the trail of
an erratic fox. I called him. but he gave
no heed. People get out of his way.
The gamins shouted, and, with a wild,
shrill bark, he suddenly bounded into the
doorway of a large drygoeds store. I
bounded after him in time te see him rush
up te a lady in black, who was examining
some jjeves, and danced about her with
signs of the most extravagant joy. There
are tones that live without the aid of the
phonographs. 'Rey! Rey! Dear old
boy,' was all she said, but I'd have sworn
the voice was Jennie's if I had heard it
en the summit of Mount Blanc. A white
hand was laid upon his head, and my ring
was en the hand."
He paused. "Yeura? Sir, I hope yen
did net claim it," said his practical cell cell coll
cuter. " I did, and the hand which were it,
just as originally intended. Ner did Alex
ander, in his hour of greatest conquest,
ever smile a mere serene approval of him
self than our conductor at this stage of
his story.
" But the conduct of Fritz, and the
lady's silence, and all the queer concemi
tants which exist only in fiction hew de
you reconcile them with an "ew'r" true
tail ?" said Ruth, the truth loving.
" Fritz was Rey, the Rey who had often
been caressed by Jennie before his young
master, Jennie's cousin, get the geld fever
when I did, and came te California, never
te return. Jennie had written, but her
letters never reached me. She thought
me dead. Why the de. came te me,
when his master died, is among the
riddles of my life, which I will disen
tangle in the herejftjr."
"And te-day where is she?"
He steed waiting for the question. " On
our ranch, near Sacramento, and I believe
one of the happiest women in the state.
We have boy ten years old whose name is
Fritz, and all the dearer for the sake of the
old friend who has long since gene where I
hope,eue day, te meet the liuuiau of him. I
wish you could step off a while and see my
wife. Queer, isn't it, that I should have
intruded this bit of private history upon
you, but the truth is Yes, coming, I'll
be with you again ladies." A brakeman
beckoned him inside, and we had seen the
last of our handsome conductor.
The evening shadows had begun te
lengthen. The setting sun had turned the
vast plain of the Sacramento valley into a
''field of the cloth of geld," and the dis
tant peaks of the Sierra, clad in their
eternal snows, but new rose-tinted aud
glowing, seemed te cleave the azure above
them as wiih a wedge of burnished silver.
It was starlight when we reached the end
of our car ride and were registered for the
night.
"The conductor's story was a pleasant
little episode, Ruth, wasn't it. De you
believe it all happened ?" I asked and
leaned from my pillow te hers te leave a
geed kiss en her round cheek.
"I like Fritz," was her sleepy answer.
"There's a divinity about some dogs that
the half of mankind can neither appre
ciate er.attain. I trust a man whom a
geed deg loves."
An Independent Line te New Yerk.
Railroad Plans and Rnmers.
Baltimore Sun. ,
It is quite evident that the friends as
well as ellicials of the Baltimore & Ohie
railroad are actively engaged in maturing
some plau whereby independent commu
nication between Baltimore and New
Yerk will be established. Such communi
cation is felt te be imperatively necessary
by business, men and manufacturers of
both cities named, as well as these of Phil
adelphia ; also the producers and dealers
throughout the Seuth and West. Mr.
Rebert Garrett returned te Baltimore
Tuesday night and was at his pest yester
day at Camden station, but was uncom
municative with reference te the object of
his recent visit te Philadelphia. The
Times of that city, in speaking qf the sub
ject yesterday, said :
"There is something very important
afoot in relation te the effort of the Balti
more & Ohie railroad te reach New Yerk
by an independent reute. Rebert Gar
rett, the third vice-president of the com
pany and its active spirit in the absence
of his father in Europe, was in Philadel
phia yesterday in conference with Presi
dent Gewen, of the Reading railroad, en
Mis subject. They were together for
three hours. It is understood that the
conference was in reference te the way in
which a connection can be formed with
the Heading railroad without going ever
the three-mile Junction read. As
the Baltimore & ' Ohie company
cares very little for the passenger I
uusincss .irum euner new iuif
or Philadelphia, but is most interested in
the transportation of freight, it is said
that a line is te be constructed outside the
city, although adding three miles te the
distance. On western freight the Balti
more & Ohie people think they can coun
terbalance this by the shortness of their
route te Baltimore. The great aim of the
Baltimore & Ohie company is te enter into
competition for the tremendous freight
business of New Yerk and Philadelphia
with the West and Seuth. Their, design,
it is reported, should they fail te get into
Philadelphia, is te get freight received by
the Reading railroad in the city and taken
out te the junction of the read which they
propose te build. In stock circles th'e
opinieu prevail that the Baltimore &
Ohie arc neJab9Untially the owners
of the Delawtre. Western railroad and
its charter, giving the right te build extenj
siens. Frem Wilmington comes the defi
nite statement that Colonel SIcCemb, the
principal owner of the Delaware Western
read, has contracted te deliver 4,500 shares
te Mr. Garrett, who agrees, in return,
that his read will build the line te Phil
adelphia and Baltimore. In order te ful
fill his contract Cel. McComb is reported
te have purchased 1,300 shares from Wm.
T. Carter, of this city. Mr. Garrett is
also credited with having secured the
stock in the" Delaware Western formerly
held by Drexel & Ce., R. R. Robinson &
Ce. and Elliett. Jehnsen & Ce., two Wil
mingten bankers, have been buying up all
tUO ISCICWare YCSlru bluck. iucy khu gvb
for Col.McCemb. It is also said that a
formal transfer of the Deleware Western
read was made yesterday te the Baltimore
& Ohie company, through its counsel in
Wilmington, Levi C. Bird.
A nmnrf Mi I
A report that
Samuel Canby and ethers were eat at Kia-
mensi yesterday, making surveys,
strengthens the belief that the
Baltimore & Ohie people 'mean business.'
Mr. Garrett came in a cab direct from tts
depot, and after his interview with 5Ir.
Gowan returned immediately te Balti
more. "
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