JUL Ekuotco to politics, itcttttuvc, agricnituvc, Science, illovalitn, anb cnctol Sntclligctuc. VOL. 30. STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., AUGUST 15, 1872. NO. 15. Published by Theodore Schoch. TERMS -To dollar a year in advance and if not aiJ oefre the nd of the ye.tr, two dollars and fifty cents will be charged. p:'erlisi-oiitiniiet until all arrearages are paid, (inept at ihe option ot the Editor. jjj'AJveriisciaents of one fiviare of (eight lines) or n, one or three insertions $1 50. Each additional nerttn, 4" cent. Longer ones in proportion. JOB PRINTING, OF ALL KINDS, gierutei in the highest style or the Art, and on the most reasonable terms. Valuable Property FOE SALE. The subscribers offer for sale, their residence in Stroudsburg. Ihe Jjot has a trout ot I in It. on Main Street, with a depth of 25l feet. The buildings consist of a convenient dwell ing house, store house, baru and other out buildings There is an abundance of choice apples, pears, plums, grapes and small fruits, with excellent water. May 16, , 72. A. M. & R. STOKES. DR. J.LANTZ, Surgeon and Mechanical Dentist, Stiilli li's office on Main Street, in the second iorv l 'Dr. S. Walton's brick building, nearly oppo sitc the. stroiidstmrif House, and he flatters' himself ttiat hy ciphtecn years constant pmctire and the most arnet and careful Kltrnticn to all matters pertaining Is hi priMon. that he is fully able to perform nil crrati ns in tlie dental line in the most careful, taste ful and k 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 manner. Sperul attention given to saving the Natural Teeth ; tN.i, to the iiiM-rtion of Artificial Teeth on Rubber, fiid. Silver or Continuous Gums, and ported fiU In Mil cas insured. Must prs.-ns know the great folly and danger l en trusting tiielr work to the inexperienced, or to those livm; at a distance. April 13, 1 ST I . I y D It. fclEO. W. J.iCILSO.V PHYSICIAN, SURGEON & ACCOUCHER. In the old office of Dr. A. Tieeves Jackson, reriJence in Wyckoff'n building. STROUDSBURG, PA. August 8, 1872-tf. jyn. IS. J. PATTERSOX, OPERATING AND MECHANICAL DENTIST, Hsriiif loeatcd In East Siroudsburg, Pa., an nounce that lie ia now prepared to insert arti Ecial teeth in the most beautiful and life-like manner. Also, great attention given to filling and prwiervir.g the natural teeth. Teeth ex tracted without pain by use of Nitrous Oxide Ga. All other work incident to the profession Hone in the most skillful and approved style. All work attended to promptly and warranted. Charges reasonable. Patronage of the public elicited. Office in A. W. IOder's new building, op- !oite Analomink House, East Ftroudsburg, . July 11, 1872 ly. ' DR. N. L. PECK, Surgeon Dentist, Announces thit hivinjr just returned from Dent&l Coilegs, he is fully prepared to make uificia! teeth in the most beautiful and life like manner, and to fill decayed teeth ac enlin to ihe mot in proved method. Teeth exfracted without pain, when de sired, by the use of Nitrous Oxide Gas, which is entirely harmless. Repairing of U kinds neatly done. All work warranted. Ckr;ee reasonable. Office in J. G. Keller's new Brick build isf. Main S'reet, Stroudeburjj, Pa. u 31-tf DR. C. O. IIOFFMAX, 31. 15. Would resj nit fully announce to the public that lie has removed his uflicc from Oakland to Canadensis. Monroe County, l'a. Trusting that many years of consecutive practice of Medicine and Surgery will be a mfijeiont guarantee for the public confidence. February 2 . IS70. tf. TAMES II. W.4LTOX, W Attorney at Law, 0;T.c in the building formerly oecupiod J L M. IJurson. and opposite the Strouds hurg Hank, .Main street, Stroudsburg, Pa. jan 13-tf I iCKOVAWA HOUSE. J ('PI'OSITK THK DKPOT. 7 East Stroudoburg, Pa. R. J. VAX C01T, Proprietor. The Bin contains the choicst Liquors and te table i supplied with thelestthe market flunk Charges moderate. may 3 172-tf. 7"ATSXS Blount Vernon House, 117 and 119 North Second St. AMOVE ARCH, PHILADELPHIA. y 30, 172- ly. M KELLERS VILLE HOTEL. I he undersigned haviurr lum-hased the fcove well known and popular Hotel Proper- V Would resiici-tfiillv inform tlw rrii vennf h poUie that he has refurnished and fitted up Hotel in the best tyle. A handsome bar. with choice Liquors and Segars, polite Uendaut? and moderate charges. CHARLES MAXAL, vet iO 187J. tf. Proprietor. ) i UTOX M V I E E E EE OTE E. This old established Hotel, having recently enanjrj ,arKs au kcc throughly overhauled iid repaired, will reopen, for the reception of f piesu on Tuesday, May 27th. . Ihe public will always tiud this house a de 'raile pla of resort. "Every department will nanagel in the. lst possible maimer. The Ui,e wiil be supplied with the lest the Market 'unls, and comiohuire will always lind none fiu' tlie best wines and liquors at the bar. t 'JOod subling beloning to the Hotel, will be 'O'ind at all times under the care of careful aud wiging attaiidants. J 23, 1S72. ANTHONY II. KOE.MLTl. A Night in a Sleeping-Car. In a recent letter to the Independent, describing the railroad trip from Salt Lake to San Francisco, Mrs. Helen Hunt gives a graphic narrative of the events of a night passed in a sleeping car. Her experience will refresh the memory of every person who has ever traveled in one of these inventions of modern civilization. At Ogden the Union Pacific Railroad ends and the Central Pacific Railroad be gins. The Pullman drawing room cars also end, and the silver palace cars begin ; and we are told that there are good reasons why no mortal can engage a section of a sleeping car to be ready for him at Ogden on any particular day. "Through passengers" must be accommodated first. 'Through passengers," no doubt, see the justice of this. Way passengers cannot be expected to. But we do most emphatically realize the bearing of it when we arrive at Ogden from Salt Lake City at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and find anxious men standing patiently in line, forty deep, before the ticket office, tiding their chance of having to sit up for the two nights which must be spent on the road between Ogden and San Fran cisco. It was a desperate hour for that ticket agent ; and the crowd was a study for an artist. Most to be pitied of all were the married men, whose nervous wives kept plucking them by the coat tails and drawing them out of the Hue once in five minutes, to propose utterly impracticable devices for circumventing or hurrying the ticket agent. I do not know whether I reveal things which should be hid, or whether the information would be of value upon all days ; but there is a side window to that ticket-ofiice, and a superintendent sometimes stands near it, and by lifting a green curtain, conversations cao be carried on, and money and tickets- passed ' iu and out. Neither do I know how many, if any, of the forty unfortunates rode all the way bcdless to San Erancisco ; for" onr first anxiety as to whether we should get a "section" was soon merged in our second, which was almost as great what we should do with ourselves in it. A latent sense of justice restrains me from attempt ing to describe a section. It is impossible to be just to a person or thing disliked. I dislike the sleeping car sections more than I ever have disliked, ever shall dis like, or ever can dislike anything in the world. Therefore, I will not describe one. I will speak only of the process of goiug to bed and getting up in it. Faney a mattress laid on the bottom shelf in your cupboard, and the cupboard-door shut. You have previously made choice among your possessions which ones you will have underneath your shelf, where you cannot get at them, and which ones you must have, and will therefore keep all night on the foot of your bed (that is, on your feet). Accurate memory and judicious selection, under such circum stances, are impossible. No sooner is the cupboard door shut than you remember that several indispensable articles are under the shelf. Rut the door is locked, and you can't get out. Ry which I mean the porter has put up the curtain in front of your section, and of the opposite sec tiou, and you have partly undressed, and can't step out into the narrow aisle with out encountering the English gentleman, who is going by to heat water on the stove at the end of the car; and, even if you didn't encounter him, you can't get at the things which have been stowed away under your shelf, unless you lie down at full leDgth on the floor to reach them ; and you can't lie down at full leogth on the floor, because mcst of the floor is under your opposite neighbor's shelf. So I said the doer was locked simply to ex. press the hopelessness of the situation. Then yon sit cross-legged on your bed ; beeause, of courec, you can't sit on the edge of the shelf after the cupboard door is shut that is, the curtain is put up so close to the edge of your bed that, if you do sit there iu the natural human man ner, your knees and feet will be in the way of the English gcolteman when he parses. Sitting cross legged on your bed, you take off a few of your clothes, if you have courage ; and then you cast about to think what you shall do with them. It is quite light in the cupboard, for there is a little kerosene lamp in a tiny glassdoorcd niche in the wall ; and it gives light enough to shew that there isn't a hook or an edge of aovthiog ou which a siugle article can be huug. You gaze drearily around ou the smooth, shiniug panels of hardwood. It is a very handsome cup board, a good deal plated, besides being made of liue hard woods, into which you can't drive even a pin. At last you have an inspiration. You staod up on the edge of your bed, and, grasping the belt of your dress firmly in each hand, boldly thrust one arm out above the curtain, aDd hook the belt above the curtain-rod. It swings safely ! You sink back triump hant and exhausted ; come down ou your traveling bag, and upset it; the cork comes out of the hartshorn bottle, and the hartshorn runs into the borax. (Of course, you can't cross the Alkali Desert without a good supply of counter alkalis). Ry the time you have saved the remainder of these, and propped the traveling-bag up agaiD, you aro frightfully cramped from sitting so long cross legged. So you lie out straight a few miuutes to rest. Theu you get up again, more cautiously than before, on the edge of the bed, and hook and piu a few more garments around the curtaiu rod. Just as you are hooking on the last one, and feeling quite elated, the car gives a sudden jerk, and out you go, head foremost into the aisle, into the very arms of the English gentleman I Reing an English gentleman he would look the other way if he could ; but how can he ? He must hold you up ! You don't know just how you clamber back. Nothing seems very clear to you for some minutes, except the English gentleman's face, which is indelibly stamped on your brain. You don't eit np for the next five or ten minutes, nor make a sound. Then you reflect that the night is really to be ten hours long, and that there are. hairpins and hair. There is no need of greater explicitness. The feeblest imagination can supply details and dilemmas. You sit up again, and soon become absorbed in necessary transactions. You glance up to the left ! Horror upon horrors ! The cupboard door has suddenly swung off its hinges I That is, the flank piece of the curtain, which is intended to turn a corner at the head of the bed, and shut you off from your neighbor in the next section, being not wide enough, and having no sort of contrivance to fasten it to the wooden partition, has slid along on the rod, and left you just as much exposed to the eyes of all passers by as if your cupboard had no door at all. You drop well all you have in your hands, seize the curtain and hold it in place with your thumb and finger, while you grope for a pin to pin it with. Pin it, indeed 1 To what? I have before mentioned that the cupboard is of panels of highly-polished hard wood and siver plating. The cars are called "silver" and "palace" for this reason. At last you pin it to the upper edge of your pillow. That seems insecure ; especially so, taking into account the fact that you are a restless sleeper. Rut it is the only thing to be done. Having done this, you look down at the foot of bed, and find a similar yawning aperture there. You pin this flank curtain to the blanket, and pin the blanket to the mattress. You do all these things, getting about on your knees, with the car shaking and rocking violently over an unusually rough bit of road. When the flap is firmly pinned at the head and the foot, you lean back against the middle of the back ot your cupboard, to rest. The glass door outside your little lamp is very hot. You burn your elbow on it, and involuntarily scream. "What is ' the matter, ma'am ?" says the friendly conductor, who happens to be passing. You start up. That is, you would, if you could; but you can't, be cause you arc sitting cross legged, and have the cramp besides. Rut it is too late. The cupboard-door is split in the middle, and there are the conductor's sympathizing eyes looking directly in upon you. It is evidently impossible to have the curtains made tight at the head and foot of your shelf without their part ing in the middle. They 'are too scant. At this despair sets in. However, you unpin the flap at the foot of the bed, re pin it so as to leave only a small crack, through which you hope your neighbor will be too busy to look. Then you pin the two curtaius together firmly in the middle, all the way up and down. Theu you lie down, with your head ou your traveling bag, and resolve to do no more till the cars stop. You fall asleep from exhaustion. When you awake, darkness reigns; a heavy and poisonous air fills your cupboard ; the car is dashing on through the night faster than ever. Timidly you unpin the curtaius, and peep out. The narrow aisle is curtained from one end to the other ; boots arc t-ct out at irregular intervals ; snores rise in hideous chorus about you ; everybody has gone to bed, nobody has opened his window, and most of the ventilators are shut. With ail the haste you can make, you try to open the wiodow at the foot of your bed. Alas 1 while the day lusted you neglected to learn the trick of the fastening; now the night has come, iu which no man can undo a car wiudow. You take the skin off your fingers you bruise your knuckles ; you wrench your shoulder and back with superhuman strains all the time sitting cross legged. At last, just as you have made up your mind to follow the illus trious precedent ot Mrs. Kemble's elbow, you hit the spring by accident, and, iu your exultation, push the window wide open. A fierce and icy blast sweeps in, aud your mouth is filled with ciudcrs in a second. This will never do. Now, how to get the window partly down ! This takes longer than it took to get it up ; but you finally succeed. Ry this time you are so exhausted that absolute indif ference to all things except rest seizes you. You slip in between the sheets, and shut your eyes. As you doze off, you have a vague impression that you hear something tumble off the foot of the bed into the aisle. You hope it is your boots, and not your traveling bag, with the bottles in it; but you would uot get up again to see qo, not it the whole ear-load of pas sengcrs were to be waked up by a pungent odor of ammonia and alcohol proceeding from your cupboard. Strange to say, you sleep. Your dreams are nightmares but still'you sleep through till daylight. As soon as you awake you spring up and listeu. All is still. Some of the sores still coutioue. You put up a fervent ejaculatiou that you have waked so early. You resume tho cross-legged position, aud look about you for your possessious. It was your traveling-bag, after all, which fell oft the shelf. You find it upside down on the floor in the aisle. You find, alao, one boot. The other cannot be found. A horrible fear seizes you that it has gone out of the window. As calmly as your temperament will permit, you go on putting your remains together. The car is running slowly ; and, all things considered, you think you are doing pretty well, when suddenly you encounter, in a glistening panel on the back of your cupboard, close to the head of your bed, a sight which throws you into new per plexity. There is yes it is the faco of the English gentleman. Rut what docs it mean that the eyes are closed and a red silk handkerchief is bound about his florid brow ? While you stare in creduously, the face turns on its pillow. A 6leepy hand stretches up and rubs one eye. The eye opens, gazes languidly about, closes again, and . the English gentleman sinks off into his morning nap. You seize your pillow, prop it up agaiost the shining - panel, so as to cut off this extremely involuntary view ; then you stop dressing, and think out the phenomenon. It is very simple. The partitions between the sections do not join the walls of the car by two inches or more. The polished panel just behind this space is a perfect mirrer, reflecting a part of each section ; then you glance guiltily down to the similar mirror at the foot of your bed. Sure enough, the saute thiug ! There you sec the head of an excellent German frau, whom you had observed the- day before. She also is sound asleed. You prop your other pillow up in that corner, lest she should awake ; and then you hurry on your clothes stealthily as a thief. The boot, however, cannot be found, and you are at last con strained to go to the dressing room with out it. The dressing-room is at the further end of the car. Early as yon are, fellow-women are there before you three of them ; one iu possession of the wash bowl, two waiting for their turu. You fall into line, thankful for being only the fourth. You sit bashfully on somebody's valise, while these strangerse make their toilets. You reflect on the sweet and wonderful power of adaptation which dis tinguishes some natures ; the guileless trust in the kindliness of their own sex which enables some women to treat all other women as if they were their sisters. The three arc relating their experiences. "Well, I got along very well," says one, "till somebody opened a window ; and after that I thought I should freeze to death. My husband, he called the con ductor np, and they shut the ventilators ; but I just shivered all night. Real good soap this is ; ain't it, now ? You feel yourself blushing with guilty consciousness of that open window. Rut you brave it out silently. "I wa'u't too cold," said the washbowl incumbent, meditatively holding her false teeth under the faucet, and changing them deftly from side to side, to wash them well. "Rut I'll tell you what did Inppcn to me. In the middle o' the night I felt suthin against my head, right on the very top o'ot. And what do you think it was? 'Twas tho feet of the man in the next section to onr'n ! Well, sez I, this more'n I con stand ; aud I give 'cm such a push, i reckon lie waked up, for 1 never felt 'cm no more." At this you fly. You cannot trust your face any longer. "Got tired o' waitin' ?" calls out No. 3. "You can have my turn, if you're in a hurry. We've got all day before us," and the three women chuckle drearily. When you reach your cupboard, Frank, the handsome black porter, has already transformed your bed into two chairs. The bedding is all put away out of siht; and there, cotiuspieuously awaiting you, stands the missing boot, ou a chair. You are not proud of your boots. For good reasons you decided to wear them on this journey ; but false shatue wrings you as you wonder if everybody has seen how very shabby that shoe is. The English gentleman is in the aisle, putting on hi3 boots. The German frau is bustling about in a very demi dress. Xobody seems to mind anybody ; and. now that the thing is over, you laugh to think how droll it all was. And so the day begins. , California is destined to be tho great fruit growing portion of the country. Her vineyards are already immense, and the wine product is increasing in a man ner which i3 remarkable. Latterly at tention has been directed to other fruits. The orange, the lime, the lemon and Ihe walnut arc all found to be suitable for cultivation in the southern part of the State, and their products are in quality excellent, while the prices obtained for the fruit yield sach a profit that scarcely auy other culture will give a better re suit. The orange pays at the rate of from fifteen hundred to three thousand sevcu hundred dollars per acre ; walnuts pay a profit of from six hundred to one thous and dollars an aero. This is, of coarse, after the trce3 arc full grown. The orange, lime and lemon bear in their uinth year. The olive has also been cultivated with so much success as to prove that it will hereafter be a crop of ;reat value. Hopes arc entertained that iu course of time Oregon will supply the tea consum ed iu this country. Experiments are now being made iu that State iu the cultiva tiou of the tea plaut. A bolt of lightning in Appleton City, Mo,, unhinged a door, carried it across the bed of a sleeping couple and deposited it over the cradle where a little child was lying without injuring any one. Carious Things About Dreams. Ts it not a curious fact, for example, that dreams are all the creations of our own minds that we ourselves originate the forms and faces that look on us, and perhaps terrify us that we think the thoughts that others seem to spoak with their lips that we and no others arc the authors of the comedy that is acted be fore us, or of the terrible tragedy " in which we ourselves are the only sufferers ? There is another curious thing about dreams, and that is, the short period of time in which they occur. This has been often measured by nothing, for example, the hour cr minute when one has fallen asleep, dreamed a loug dream, and awoke. Many remarkable instances of thU have been given. , I shall add to these one from my own experiepce. Very late one night, when wearied . iu body aud mind, I was dictating to a friend what required to be scut to press early next morning, 1 spoke a seutence and suddenly foil asleep. 1 dreamed a very long and complicated dream, and theu I awoke, feeling quite refreshed, but for a momcut utterly con fused as to where 1 was, or what I had been doing. Recovering myself, I began to apologize to my friend lor having so long detained him at that hour of night; expressing the hope that he had been able to employ himself profitably iu pre paring his college exercises, when at last, turning round for he had been writing with his back to me he asked me, with an expression of wonder and almost alarm, if I felt unwell or what did I mean ? I wondered much more, when I heard that he had never lifted his pen, nor had ceased writing, and that 1 was roused by hisj repeating the last word of the sen tence, so that I could not possibly have slept above three or four seconds I And thus a long dream, which seems to occupy a night, has often been found to have oc cupied, perhaps, only a few seconds before waking. This may account for a fact often noticed by men recovered from drowning, that just before becom ing unconscious, their whole life seemed suddenly pass befroc them, like a pan orama, and time was nothing ia the rap idity of thought. There is one experience which we have acquired, I believe, from our dreams as from no other source, and that is our awful suffering through fear. Who was ever smitten when awake with such ab ject terror, such dread alarm from sights of horror, from dangers dim, impalpable, mysterious, overwhelming, as in a night mare ? We seem to encounter death in its worst forms, to combat terrible foes, to endure agonic3 of torment, to be per secuted by every savage demouiacal pow er wild beasts of the desert, the hideous forms of serpent life and of ocean life, while we are all the time utterly power less and deserted. Even the dearest friends turu away, and we are aloue amidst all that can fill the soul with such fear that the hero of a huudrcd fights starts up with a cry of terror, and the greatest emperor screams like a child ! What a wouderful description is that of such a dream giveu by Eliphaz the Teaianitc in the Rook of Job ! Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine car received a little there of. - Iu thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, lear came upon rue, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up; it stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof; an image was before miue eyes ; there was silence ! It Is very likely that you will sagely rcmcrk that all those terrible dreams of ours have been caused by some trifle some indiscretion in eating, or by some acid, or iudigestion. I have no doubt this is generally the case. Some of you may have seen an excellent caricature of George Cruikshauk's, representing a man asleep on his back, with an expression of agony ou his face, while a black pig sits on his chest, and looking at him, asks, "Why did ycu cat pork for supper ?" A most pcrtineut question, which might be varied by asking sufferers from night marc, why did you cat "cheese," or "pie crust," ox this or that dainty, which causes you now to suffer ? Aud it sure ly is worth learning, as taught so vividly by such night agonies, what an effect the body ha 3 ou the mind, how what we call a trifle affecting the l.iccly adjusted and finely tempered organizat iou of the one will affect the other, and a small morsal perhaps of toasted cheese make the im mortal spiiit of the greatest statciuan as well as of the greatest boy, experience a horror of great darkness ! So, look sharp after tho body by obedience to God's will regarding you aud you will save much suffering iu the soul. Another curious fact about dreams is that we very, seldom, if ever, dream about what chiefly occupies onr minds during the day. This side of the brain, so to speak, h wearied, and s!ccp3 soundly; while that portion which was idle during the day remains awake and works ut night. Accordingly, if we want to know what has given rise to our dreams, we must search among the most Irival of our day thoughts; but alas ! the t rival are so uumerious that we seldom have patience to search long enough to discover the tiny cup of water which, at night our fancy magnifies iuto on ocean tossed hy a storm, llenee dreams from diflereut sources may assume nearly the same form. For example : When one of my boya wa3 ill with scarla tina, I had a shocking attack of night mare in which I was attempting in vain to drag him from a houso on fire, and from which I awoke with a sense of hor ror at seeing him perish in tho flames, while appealing to me for help. I went up to his room, and told by his sick nurse that he was in a refreshing sleep; but that he had sprung up in tho uight with a scream, saying that his room was on fire. I was determined, if possible, to trace out the origin of so strange a coinci dence, and search among the trifles of the past day. llecalliug my thoughts, I remembered that at a crowded meeting the previous evening 1 bad conjectured what would be done iu the ill-constructed building if it took fire, and how I could possibly rescue my own family who were seatod in the inmost part of it. So much for my part. Rut what of my boy' share ? On making minute inquiries, I ascertained that the physician attending him had casually remarked in his hear ing the day before, "Although this room, is very comfortable, I have a dislike to all garret rooms reached by wooden stairs on, account of fire." This remark he had heard and noticed. Thus our dreams so much alike, occurring the same night, originated in different yet similar trifling incidents of the previous day ! Norvian Maclcod, in Good Words for the Younj. . e How a Man may Become Rich on Small Beginnings. The gradually increasing rate of inter est should make people wary of borrow ing money for speculative purposes, and especially of hiring it for the purchase of unproductive property, or iu the expecta tion of cbtaiuiug pcrmauontly high rato of interest which every few years causes a general breaking, up of business, when property and products fall in prices. This also it is which causes wealth grad ually but steadily to concentrate into the hands of comparatively few persons in tho community. Take any series of ten, twenty, or thirty years, or more, and the longer the series the more positive and conclusive becomes the evidence of tho fact, and it will be seen that the most profitable business in the world is the lend ing of money. The high rate of money, high taxes, must, in the course of few years, tend to such a concentration, of wealth aB cannot fail to be injurious to society, and will ultimately so straiten the debtor closses as to the necessitate to a very great extent the process of wiping out old accounts and beginning a new. A few examples will be sufficient to il lustrate the great power of interest : A mau buys a house for which ho pays 110,000. lie leases it and charges the tenant seven per cent, upon its cost, clear of insurauce, taxes and repairs. The rent is payable quarterly. A rate of interest of seven per annum, paid quarterly, will accumulate a sum equal the? principal loaned or invested iu pro perty in ten years. Iu the first period of ten years, therefore, his rcuts build him another as costly a house as the first. In twenty years his rents build three such houses ; thirty years seven houses ; in forty-one houses ; iu sixty years sixty threo houses, and in sevcuty years one hund red and twenty seven houses. Iu seventy years all these are built from the accumu lated rents of one house. The houses are worth 81,270,000, which sum has been paid for seventy years' rents of one houso worth $10,000. If, instead of being in vested in the house and lot, the 10,000 were loaned on interest at seven per cent., aud the interest collected and rcloancd quarterly, the money would accumulate precisely the same amount as the property. Take another illustration of the power in interest. Two mechanics just come of age, arc good to earn a dollar a day over and above his expenses. Every six. months they invest the mauey thus earned at seven per cent, iutcrest, the interest payable half yearly. These men corn an average of a dollar a ihy besides their ex penses 300 days iu each year, during for ty years and Jour months. Their age is then CI years aud 4 mouths. Each earns by labor 300 for 40 years, or. for the whole period, 12,120 together with 524,200. Rut the interest on their re turns, loaned half yearly, for a period of 40 years aud four months amounts to S104,fo0.70, which, added to the amount of $21,200 earned by their labor, makes the aggregate, 128, la.). 70. The inter est on the sum $24,200 earned by their labor is, $104,550.70 more thau four and a quarter times greater than tho amount they have earned by their labor. Suppose the two men to live tweuty years and two months longer, that is to the age of eighty-one years and six months, and continue to loan their money. During this period it will double twice, making the total accumulation in sixty years and six months 515,002.80. Tho two men do uot work duriug the last twenty years and two mouths, and expend cf the iucome for liviug during that per iod 15,002.80, leaving to their heirs 8i00,000. Iu forty years and four months they earn by their labor 24,200, aud live twenty yeurs ou their tuouey without la bor. Subtract the money tamed by la bor, 921,200, and the remainder accumu lated by interest is 175,K00. Nw cot oue dollar of this $-175,800 in carnod by the labor of these men. It is tho le gal interest oa $24,200. These meu live laboriously and woik for a moderate com pensation. They take only the legal rate of interest. Neither da they eater iuto any epeeuldtion.
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