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VOL. 30.
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., AUGUST 15, 1872.
NO. 15.
Published by Theodore Schoch.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.