r .(EIk forest gcpuiitan. 18 riTBUSHKl) KVKUY WJCIIN IC.HDAY, BY . W H. DUNN.. OFFICE I!T ROBIKSON & BONNER'S BUILDIKQ ELM 8TE.EET, TIONESTA, PA. Rates of Advertising. OnHquare (1 liH;h,)one Insertion - fi One Square " one month - 8 (X) One .Square " three months - 6 00 One Square " one year - - 10 00 Two Squares, one year - - - 15 Oo Quarter Col. 30 00 Half " " - 50 00 One " - - - - 100 00 TiOjral notices at established rates. Marriage and death notices, gratis. All bills for yearlv advertisements col lected quarterly. Temporary advertise merits must be jmiil for in ndvuncc. Jo)) work, Cash on Delivery. M TI5UMS, $U.OO A YEAH. No Subscriptions received for a shorter period than three iiioiiUim. 'hi Tfsinli'h-o ddiii h11 pints 1. 1 'i In- country. N.i iinii-.vill ho taken oi HIIDliyuiOUM COIIllllMllicutiiniM. VOL. XI. NO. 28. TIONESTA, PA;, OCTOBER 2, 1878. $2 PER ANNUM. s The Light of Autnmn Days. What Bvirunicr sonps are sweot and fair, And who Hindi ding thorn blythe and g3k With cadence flcxilo-goft an air And chet ry as the summer day t What poet comes with sandal shoon, And clear brown eye of dremy gaze Brown as the wave whose forest gloom Has drank the light of autnmn days The light of autumn days ! Deep, deep within bis quiet heart lie holdH the snnshiuo of the year, The miiHio of the moadow lark And bolls tbat echo faint and clear ; The hare-boll, may be, on the slope, The bubble that the wave has broke, "Or the loft, sombre tones that fall In memory of a birthday chime Faded in that fur lapse of time That oomes and goes for all ; And thui within his eyes the haze Deepens of autumn days ! The sky is blue, the iky ia fair, Aud writ with fleecy cloud in air ; And boughs are waving fresh aud free, As foaTi-orest on a summer sea ; And Liils with wings whose flashing light Makes the worn spirit yoarn for flight Are passing on to some bright stone We picture in the heart alone ; And nature chimes in nndertono Hit murmurous anthem bright and oiear Yet he apart Driuks lu with subtle sense and heart Tho rapture of the year ; And with his far-off gaze TurnsMt to autnmn days 1 Ho garners up the perfect time, lie stores at will of pain or mirth, - For him nor soason comes nor clime He stands alone of all the earth : To him the forest tells its tale, The biooklut pours its plaintive wail, The wild pine rock, the wild winds moa To him the torrent speaks alone, The tempest from its mountain throne, Tae tumult of the angry sea. The mjrmur of the roving bee, The pale anemone that blows In sunshine o'er its native snows, The blue-boll or the meadow-pink, Or osier by the streamlet's brink, All tell their tales in murmurs free The secrets of the land or sea I And in his patient eyes, Awaiting borrow and surprise Gather like fal ing leaves or sunset ray A dreamy wistful gloom A light too far 1 too soon I The light of antumn days I William U. Brigg$, MY LOST POCKET-BOOK. My name is Edney Philip Clement TJdney. That was my father's name be f re me. Twenty odd years ago he had a small but comfortable dry goods busi ngs in Utica. But iu the panic of '57 he met with severe losses; and he had hardly weathered the financial storm when he was taken down with a disease from which he never recovered, la his liiBt illness he was deeply con cerned for the future of his family, i was the eldest hod, and he frequently expresf od the hope to my mother and to me that in some way we should be able to tind Harringford. Thomas Harringford was a generous hearted but rather unprincipled young man who had been in my father's employ several years before. He had got into bad company, and was guilty of some irregularity, as the modern genteel phrase is, having helped himself to my father's cash to the amount of several hundred dollars, be fore his dishonesty I mean his irregular ity was discovered, lie was penitent, aud confessed everything, but it was impossible for him to make restitution. He had been a favorite of both my father and mother, and they could not bear to have him sent to prison. So, on his promising to reform, lead au honest life in future, and repay my father when he was able the sums he had stolen I mean misappropriated ho was let off. He weut to parts where ho was un known, and only vague rumors concern ing him had reached us since. One of these rumors was that he had been seen in Butlalo and Detroit, aud that he was doing a prosperous business. On settling up my father's ce-tate, my mother found that she aud her little familv were left in straitened circunv stances. Then we remembered what he had said about Harringford. I wrote to him letters addressed Buffalo and De troit, but failed to receive answers. At last we were so much in need tbat I said: " Mother, if you can spare the money for me to make the journey, I believe I can find Lira, and get at least a part payment of what he owes us. It - was a long time before she would listen to this proposal. She could ill afford the expense. Though we held Harriugford's note to my f ather, it was outlawed, aud she had uu much faith in my being able to cot any- money of mm, even if he could be found in either of the two cities named. At last, however, thinking the journey might do me some good, at any rate, she consented to it. and in J uly l set out. I went first to Buffalo, where I began with the post-office aud directory, but without being able to find the man I was searching for there, I proceeded to De troit. No luck there either. I returned to Buffilo, stopping at Cleveland by the way and finally gave up the search, . concluding that Harringford must have gone elsewhere, and that the world was ' too large a haystack for me to hunt in for such a needle. But my -mother had told me to be sure to visit Niagara before my return ; so one afternoon I went down by a late train to the Falls, which I saw by moon- . flight for the first time. I was of conrse too poor to go to a first-class hotel, but put up at one both n?ag fiie. I was in good spirits, in spite of fhofajlure of my undertaking, for I had youth and health. I passed the day at the Falls, but, for economy's sake, I felt that I ought to leave on the night train for Utica. Ho I prepared to take leave of the great cataract. " But I am going to drink out of it first, anyway," I said to a young man whose acquaintance I had made that afternoon. The American shore of the river was not fenced in from the public in those days, as I found it when I was there a year ago. We stood at the very brink, near the edge of the fall. The wild, tumbling rapids shot past us, seemed to pause an instant on the verge, broke into curves of marvelous green water, then crumbled into masses of foam, and fell thundering into the abyss. With that view before me, boy-like, I got down on my hands and knees for my drink. My lips touched the swift water. I had my drink, and was about to rise, when something dropped out ,of the inner breast-pocket of my coat, and shot away from my reach and sank from sight before 1 could put out my band, in my astonishment, I was near making a leap after it, but the sight of the steaming gulf below brought me to my senses. Gone I I exclaimed, flinging up my hands in despair. " Did you eee it ?" " See what ? said my companion. ' My pocket-book," I replied, full of consternation. " It dropped from my coat pocket into the water, and is lost. I came within one of going after it 1 He had seen nothing. 1 explained bow it happened. I had always car ried my pocket-book in that way, and never dropped it before. But in stoop ing far forward to bring my lips to the water, I hail emptied my pocket, and lost in an instant all my money, together with that poor outlawed note of Har riugford's among other more or lass valuable papers. My chance acquaintance expressed Jus ympathy in well-sounding words, but all at once ho appeared to have grown cold toward me. Perhaps he expected I should want to borrow money of him ; for money I should certainly need in getting away from the Falls. I still had my hotel bill to pay. and 1 could not very ell travel by rail for nothing. . We had already exchanged cards, and I had ascertained that his name was Eastmore that he was a reporter, or jomething of the sort, for a Buffalo paper. 1 thought a young man oi nis experience ought to be able to give me good advice, if nothing else, ana l begged him tell me what to do. "Have you any friend in ton that you can coll on for assistance?" he asked. ' Not one. 1 said ; and aaaea, witu- out thinking how he would take it, "Yon are the or ly acquaintance 1 have here except the hotel folks." He laughed aud iooited emDarrassed. " That's bad 1" he said. " I would be glad to lend you a little if I had any to spare, bnt I haven't Perhaps the hotel folks will help you. if you can convince them of the truth of your story." A horrible suspicion flashed across my mind. I might pass for an impostor. "The truth of it!" I exclaimed. "Whv. I had mv pocket-book right here, with twenty dollars in it ! Aud what motive could l nave in my bowilderment I could not finish my question. Of course you. had your pocket book." he answered, with a smile ; "and mind, I don't say you have any motive for making a false pretension. But the world is full of impostors, who are al ways inventing excuses for borrowing money or for omitting to pav their bills, Hotel keepers have to deal with such characters pretty often, and we can't blame them for being a trifle suspicious of men who have lost their pocket- books I" He must Tiave been impressed by the horrified look I gave him, for he imme diately went on : 'Of course I am as much convinced fhnt. von lost vonr pocket-book in the way you say as if I Tiad seen it go over the falls. But even if I had seen it, I never saw the money in it though don't understand me to say that I have anv doubt of that either. I am only stating tho ease as it might look to other people, if you duln t carry suon an non- ebb ituro nuuut wiiu juui "Thank you for so much!" I said bitterlv: for now 1 peroeived by some- thincr in his look and tone which he could not hide, that in his own mind, my -tory stood sadly in need of con' firmation. I couldn't blame him, however. Im posters are in the majority among smooth-toneued people in want of assist ance: and the worst of their sin is that they throw discredit upon honest peo ple who have been really unfortunate. I was destined to find that out to my sorrow. I felt that the first thing to be done was to make my case known to my landlord, and I went back to the house. I told him, in as cool and business-like way as I could, what had happened, and asked him to trust me for the amount- of my bill. Eastmore went with me, and I hoped he would say something to corroborate my story; but he was very cautious. He stood at my elbow, a little behind, and I suspect there was something in his faoe which did not help my cause. The landlord, a short, stooky, red visaged, wall-eyed Irishman glanced over his shoulder with the one good eye he had, and seemed to receive intelligence to my disadvantage. I turned quickly. I don t think East- more had made a signal, but he had not concealed his incredulity. I found then that I might better have gone alone to the landlord. I don't know anything about your losing your pocket-book," said the Irish man, after hearing me out. "If yon have no money, you must get some. My business is to keep a hotel, and I can't furnish guests with board and lodging for the fine stones they may tell." The words stung me, but l managed to reply calmly "I dont ask you to do any such thing. I shall pay you every cent I owe you. But I nave lost my money, and can't very well afford to stay here until I receive more." Then it occurred to me that that was just what he would like to have me do. He could hold my valise for security, and my bill would be increasing, so I added " I shall be obliged to leave your house, anyway. If you will let me take my valise, I think I may get passed over the railroad; and I promise to send you the two dollars I owe you aa soon as I reach Utica." He smiled. " What time is it ?" he asked. I took out my watch and told him. "That's a good-looking turnip," he said. " Leave that, and you may take your baggage." The watch had been my father s. I wouldn't have trusted it in his hands on any account. JNo thank you I X said, and put it back into my pocket. lie saw that 1 distrusted him, and be came abusive. You're a swindler!" he cried. "I've heard of you before, How many pocket-books have you lost this week? I've a cat here that could eat them all, and lick her chops for more. Ah!" he shook his fist at me angrily "I m the wrong man lor you to try your little confidence game on, If you come into my house again without the money, he shouted after me as I was turning' my back on him indignantly, "I'll have you arrested! I'll have you in the lockup!" I think I was never so angry in my life; but what is the use of arguing with a wild beast? I held my tongue, and walked out of his miserable hotel with out my baggage. I had beea poorly accommodated there, and his charge. alter all, was extortion almost as much as I should have had to pay in those days at a first-class house. I should have found no fault with that, aud would gladly have sent him the money if he would have let me on; but to feel that I had been imposed upon as well as insulted increased my in dignation. Eastmore followed me out, and spoke some words intended to appear sympa thizing; but l had no patience with the cold, suspicious, non -committal charao ter of the fellow, and gave him but a curt reply. So ho went his way, and I mine. I had already resolved what to do. I welked boldly into a first-class hotel, entered my name on the register, and then asked the clerk to be good enough to put my watch in the hotel safe. It was an unusual act. I knew the clerk would wonder why I requested it; bnt I made no explanation. 1 then took a room and wrote a letter to my mother, which I thought would reach her the next morning, and serve my purpose as well as a telegram. I got my letter into the mail and took "mine ease in mine inn." I determined to enjoy my stay at the Falls, while waiting for money to get away. The next day, while walking out of the hotel, I met Eastmore walking in. He gave me a curious smile and went to the desk, where he seemed to be looking over the register for names. I didu t have anything more to say to him, but sauntered away, with my head up. I looked eagerly, the next morn ing, for the expected letter from home. It did not come. But I got an interest ing bit of news instead. I took up at the breakfast table a news paper which a gentleman had laid down, and read with feelings which you can perhaps imagine, this item, under the heading of " Spray from the Falls:" "Dont drink out of the Cataract! That is what Philip Clement Edney at tempted to do on Tuesday, in the pres ence of our reporter, and thus parted with a large and well-stuffed pocket- book, which took that occasion to leap out of his breast-pocket and dart over the American Fall like a fish. Philip Clement Edney was hugely disgusted; so likewise was the landlord of the Eagle House, when be found that the said P, C. E. bad nothing but fair promises wherewith to settle his bill. Unfortun ately our reporter could not swear to the wallet and its contents; and in this age of dead beats and confidence men, P. C. E. naturally fell under some snspioion. "If an impostor, which our reporter did not believe, he is a very young and a very good-looking specimen. If an honest person, as be appears, we can only say that it was an expensive drink, and refer the prudent reader to the moral of our story, which, to insnre its being read, we have placed at the beginning, and here repeat at the end, Don't drink out of the Cataract Hot and cold streaks shot over me as I read this smart paragraph. I burned to get hold of Eastmore's sagacious nose, and be rudo to it. My name the name which the reporter had given in full was on the hotel register, and already, no doubt. I wab an object of suspicion by the clerk. I arose hastily and left the dining hall. I went to cool my head under the cliff below the Falls, and did not return to the hotel until noon. Again I aeked the clerk for letters. There were none for me; but there was something else a card. " H. F. Marston " was the name I read on it; and I was informed that Mr. 'Marston had inauired for me. "I don't know him," I said. "Who is he?" By way of reply the clerk struck a bell, called a messenger, and sent him off to see if Mr. Marston was in his room, and tell him that " Mr. Edney " had re turned. Then he said to me 1 ' You are the young man who left a watch with me, I believe. Do you wish for it ?" "I shall wish for it," I said, "when I have money to pay my bill, which I am expecting by every mail." "Then it wasn't simply for safe keep ing that you handed it to me f" he said. " Not altogether," I replied. " I had no boggage; and to avoid unpleasant explanations, and perhaps still more un pleasant suspicions, I thought I would place that security in your hands." He smiled as he took the watch frcm the safe and handed it back to me. " I don't require the security. I be lieve you are honest, Mr. Edney. The paragraph in this morning's paper has excited interest, and one or two persons have asked about you. Mr. Marston wishes particularly to see you. Walk up stairs." The messenger had in fact just re turned for me, and I went with him, wondering all the way what would hap pen next. I found a tall, well-dressed, fine- looking gentleman waiting for me in his private parlor. "Is this Philip Clement Edney ?" he said, with a smile, which brought up a host of recollections. I stared at him, all a-tremble with excitement. I might have passed him twenty times in the hotel without know ing him; but now I was sure of my man at a glance. "That is my name, you" He stopped me with another engag ing smile. I am Henry F. Marston. please remember. If I had another name once. I should be glad to have it forgotten. But I am willing that you should know who I am. When I saw your name in the paper this morning, I knew it must be you. Then 1 found you were stop ping at the same hotel with me. Your father was very, very kind to me, Philip; and when 1 learned The tears actually came into his eyes, as he faltered; and at that moment I forgave him all. "You were a little shaver when I knew you, he went on, with another flashing smile. "1 should not have recognized you; but yon have your father's name, and your mother s eyes. 1 don t know why I have neglected to communicate with them. When I found that you were here, my heart yearned towards you. liow are your parents, Philip V lie had not Heard of my father s death. When I told him, and described the straitened circumstances of our family, he appeared greatly astonished and conscience-stricken. "Why haven't you sent forme?" ho asked. "My father, in his last moments, beg ged U4 to let vou know of our circum stances, and I have gone through three cities in search of you," I replied. "But no Thomas iiarrmglord He stopped me again. "Of course not," he said. "There is no such man now, and never has been, since I left Utica and began a new life under a new name. I have been much to blame that I never paid your father. Do you know the amount of the debt ?" "The face of the note was seven hun dred and forty dollars," I answered. "But that, I am sorry to say, went over the falls in my pocketbook. But I have a letter to yon from my mother, whioh I have left in my valise at the Eagle House," "Go and get it," he said. "I can't," I replied, "for I have no money to pay my bill there." He at once opened his pocket-book. " Take that and get your valise." He put a twenty-dollar bank note into my hand. In half on hour I had redeemed my baggage, told the landlord of the Eagle house in plain language what I thought of his conduct, returned to Harringford'a room -7 or rather Marston's with my mother's letter. In reading it he had to hide his face. Tears were still in his eyes, though he was smiling again. Then he turned to me. " That was a lucky paragraph in this morning's paper," he said ; " and a lucky accident which detained you here. In your absence I have computed the present value of that note at compound interest ; and now it gives me the great est satisfaction to repay your family in a time of need. I nave deducted the twenty dollars I just handed you ; and here is the balance, " He put a paper into my hands. I couldn t believe my eyes. It was a check for twenty-three hundred and ninety dollars. I did not wait for my mother's letter, but took the next train for home. I found my letter there waiting for her. She was away, and it had not been for warded. She soon returned, and I had the joy of putting Harriugford's check into her hands. We felt some anxiety lest it shouldn't prove good for the very large sum of money it called for ; bnt it did ; and it proved also to be the turning point in our fortunes. In my delight at the happy termina tion of my adventure, I forgave every body who had wronged me. I forgave the wall-eyed landlord. I even forgave Eastmore. I have visited Niagara Falls more than once since. But I never again felt any desire to drink out of the cataract. .. F. Trowbridge, in Youth's Compnn ion TIMELY TOl'ICS. Dr. Stihliemann has found 904 marble objects at Olympia, 3,734 bronzes, 904 terra cottan, 429 inscriptions and 1,270 coins. At the great international German shooting match which recently took place at Dusseldorf, a woman won three prizes. A resident of Sacramento, Cal., has a breadfruit tree in full bearing. The fruit averages a length of four inches, and is pear shaped, with a flavor like that of a cantaloupe. Fifty thousand eucalyptus trees are to be planted about the city of Mexico. These trees grow very rapidly, and in a few years will make a material modifica tion in the rainfall about the Mexican capital. Astronomers find that the average number of meteors which traverse the atmosphere doily, and which are large enough to be visible to the naked eye ton dark clear night, is no less than 7,500,000. A new pursd na8 been invented in London. When you open it it appears Bimply to be an ordinary portmonnaie, but by touching a spring at the side, the trigger of a small revolver drops into your hand; a portion of the end of the purse opens out, discharging the muzzle, and you suddenly find yourself with a most useful protector. The consumption of coal in London is steadily augmenting, both in arithme tical and geometrical ratio. Thus, in 681, the consumption was within 200, 000 tons; in 1851 it increased to 3,500, 000 tons; in 1861 to 5,073,275 tons, and in 1877 to 9,000,700 tons. For manu facturing purposes alone 1,500,000 tons are used up annually in that huge city. A peculiar system of weather warn ings for the benefit of farmers has been established at Leipsic, under the direc tion of the observatory at that city. Four different signals are given by means of drums hoisted to different heights. One indicates fine weather, another change able, a third rain, and a fourth tbat no trustworthy prediction is possible. These forecasts are already highly es teemed by the agricultural proprietors, for whose guidance they are intended. It is estimated that the amounts of wheat for export from the countiies named during the current crop year will be approximately as follows in bushels North America 85,000,000 Russia 40,000,000 AustroHungary 20,000,(00 Australasia 15,000,000 India 5,000,000 Chili . 4,000,000 Total 170,000,000 In the Laccadavies a spe3ies of rats suddenly appeared, which, living in the crowns of the palm-trees, nibbled off the young nuts and threatened to ruin the colony. The Indian government being appealed to for aid sent over a stock of cats, but as the cats could get fish to eat below, they declined to climb ninety feet up the trees to get rats. Tree snakes were then tried, but the villagers were prejudiced against reptiles and killed them. Then the government sent out a consignment of mongooses, bnt the mongooses declined to climb trees af ter rats while they could get chickons on the ground. With cats and mongooses on the ground refusing to ascend to the rats, the officials decided that all that was required was to make the. rats de scend to the cats and mongooses, so they sent the islanders over some owls. But they had overlooked the popular prejudice against these birds, aud in committee assembled the people decided that even rats up in the trees were better than these " devil-birds. They accept ed the birds in all apparent gratitude, but as soon as the coast was clear, the owls, cats and mongooses were all con veyeil in procession to a boat and sol emnly deported to an uninhabited reef. Historic Postofllces. Two United States postofflces have been established at placas of historic note in Virginia. While there are fwnntv.tliroA Monnt Vernons in the United States that are poBtoffices, the one from wnicn ine name sprung nas been without postal facilities. The sub ject was brought to the attention oi rost- macfar.ftanAral Knv A few weeks ft CO. and it. hAincr rmrierfltend that the lad v regents desired a postoffioe there as a of the Mounl Vernon Association, and of the neighborhood, arrangements were made for an office, which was ordered established. It is thought that the post office will derive some eBpecial revenue from visitors who will desire to send a lntfAv bnm direct from Mount Vernon. Another postofilce on the same route is also established at Gunston, Fairfax county, former seat of George Mason, the author of the Bill of Rights of Vir ginia. Gunston is now owned by a and a co-operative farm is establiHhed there. It was here that M. Mason died, several voars ago, well known at one period as United States Senator from Virginia, and after ward as Confederate Minister to Eng land. tems of Intercut. Language The dress of thought. The feathered tribes the Indians. A fast walking-stick A hurri-canc. Real estate conveyances Dirt cartp. There are 100 volcanoes in South America. It is not fair to strike au average when t is down. The forerunners of a plague A mos quito's legs. F.SoldierB have to be mustered before they are peppered. The color, indigo-blue, is now pro duced from coal oil. It is said that no yellow fever epidemic has ever prevailed in China. A kind of timber for which there is no further call summer board. Postmaster Key has thirteen children. The biggest bunch of keys we know of. A man's character is like a fence. You cannot strengthen it by whitewash. We may joke when we please, if we are always careful to please when we joke. A steel is what makes a blade sharp, but a blade tbat makes a sharper is a stealer. Oae asked why B stood before C..,Be cause said another, a man must B before he can C. A Paris cafe strikes Americans with awe by displaying among its edibles, " Ponkeen piah. A joker challenged a sick man's vote . at a city election on the ground that he was an ill legal voter. Patience and gentleness are potent and powerful, but they can not turn a mill-wheel nor break up a setting hen. You may talk about the "lean and hungry Cassius," but did you ever take a side view of the man who has run a store ten years without advertising ? When a dealer tell you ' the stiff, un-' comfortable looking boots he wants to sell you are calfskin, remember that a full-grown cow, or bull, is a calf's kin. - At a great shpe manufactory in Lynn, Mass., recently, a pair of kid side-laced woman's boots was made from the stock iu just eleven minutes, in sight of visitors. " How is it. Miss, you gave your age to the census taker as only twenty-five, . when yon were born the same year I was, and lam thirty-nine?" "Ah! you have lived much faster than I, sir." " This country," remarkod a traveler in northwestern Iowa, " settles up very rapidly." " Ya as," replied the native, nervously watching the movements of a constable, dodging along the other side of the field, " country settles up a blame sight faster than the people do. And before the traveler could ask him to ex plain, he was making a mile a minute across the trackless prairie with the con stable a bad second. Burlington Hatvk eye, . People have different notions of time. A landlord, who is his own rent col lector, recently called on an old tenant, , who, with pale, trembling lips faltered: " I am very sorry, but times are bo bad, and and I am not quite ready. Ifyon could only give me a little time. "Well, well, you have always been a good payer, said the landlord. "A little time eh? Certainly. I am going up stairs, and I will look in as 1 come down." A Yellow Fever Pen Picture. The following communication, ad dressed to the chairman of the New York Chamber of Commerce by the president of the Howard Association and the act ing mayor of Vicksburg, Miss., is a vivid pen picture of the terrors of yellow fever, as experienced in that city : "Our eutire force, as well as the physicians, " nurses and well muses, are solely occu pied iu this fearful struggle with de&tu. Doctors do not pause for necessary sleep, and continue their endless rounds even when the dread destroyer is in their own households, and we therefore fail to have reports from them of the number of cases nuder treatment. Thoy have tried to report in person, but we have always to request their immediate departure to. see other and later cases. Most of us on duty at our rooms and elsewhere have lever iu our lamuieo, uui o o ujuig to supply the calls for doctors, nurses, medioines and food, and to do so under such rules and regulations as will pro tect us from impostors and enable us to meet the wants of all the needy. "There is. however, but little danger of charity going astray or being wronged when the entire city and its suouros is a vast.hospital, with every chamber occu pied and no outlet save to the grave. The struggle is now bo desperate that we oan scarcely realize other wanU than the immediate necessities of the sick, dying and dead, and this takes over $2. 000 daily of our funds and fully as much from outside organizations. But as the fever lessens we then shall have distress in another form. The children will be? for bread. Death's horrors are reduced for want of subjects. Nature will assif t itself, and the survivors of the wreck will be helpless mariners afloat, without rudder, sail or motive power. "The fever may subside by the mid dle of October, but no work or trafflo or commerce of any kind will come to un until the middle of November gives as surances of no oontagion. Wo are help less to set the wheels of our life iu mo tion sooner, and must need the good will and kimlly offices of those mora happily Mtuated. Till 'then, if-tlu-i. was not another case of fever to ocec -we should still be isolated aud strict for no tne would come to lis nor d. us to come to thenj, J
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