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ufi gloat Many ademilalug Iles are told slew-a-dais. So
wide-spread has ibis evil become, that tie public are be
ginhfog to lose confidence lts the advertisements of even
upright, honorable merchants. We pledge oureolve•
no Ito shall troop In here. Whatever we propose to tell, !
that mill tee gap., Whatever we propose to do, that mill
*bide.. We Want, we Intend to deserve, nod me flamed to
have the entire confidence of this entire community.
Thus, briefly, we make our bow to the good people of
Lehigh and Northampton counties. Now for business.
BUY CHEAP! Byll, CHEAP !
AND DON'T NE AFRAID TO LET THE PEOPLE
KNOW IT, Is one of out motto.. We shall Okk to ft.
laceasaot war upon the
ROTTEN CREDIT SYSTEM
that makes honest people pay for the Dry Goods that
rogues wear; is soother principle upon which we do bast•
new. We shall stick to that, too. Remember. then, we
buy for cash and w must sailor cash.
DOWN WITH HIGH PRICES!
THE NEW YORK FOSTERS ARE COMING.
NEW YORE DRY GOODS ARE COMUNO.
'DEW YORK PRICE& ARE COMING.
MAKE WAY FOR THEM! 1
Oar prises here unto be 'slow as allinr three New York
City storey—as low as 'at our store In Troy, N. Y.—aslow
seat our store In Newark, N. J.—se low as at our store la
Fort Wayne, Indium. We retail nearly a million dollars
worth of Dry Goods yearly. We can buy on this account
immense lots, and so are often enabled to cell our pods
lean than other merchants buy theirs. We propose to re
volutionize the Allentown Dry Goods trade—to crush out
high prices—to do away with the rotten credit system, and
to sell you many goods for about half the prices now be
ing charged by " slow shilling" merchants.
Unions stormy, wo shall open MONDAY, APRIL 12th.
Look out for a grand rush. Look out for the cheapest
goods ever seen In your city.. 'Special bargains will be
offered on that day. Many goods will ho sold at cost.
Among other bargains; these: Splendid yard wide muslin,
12,' cent.; hot Merrimack Prints, 12!i cent.; Handsome
Fringed Towels!, 1276 cents; Large Linen Napkins, $1 3 0
per dozen; Wide Table Linen, 50 cents, cold In town at 80
cents; Coates' Dent Spool Cotton 7 cents, sold In town at
10 cents Double Width Alpacas 37% cents, sold la tows
at 115 cents.
Remember, Then, that on
MONDAY, APRIL, 12th,
will Jim opened at
NO. 19 EAST HAMILTON . STREET,
Opposite the Reformed Lutheran Church,
FOSTER'S
ORE PRICE NEW YORK CITY STORE.
spr
TIRE! FIRE! FIRE!
HOI HAVE YOU HEARD THE NEWI3I
0, .NO! 0, NO! NOT SO!
The Corner Store and Other. can't sell cheaper than
SCHREIBER BROS
NO. 10 EAST HAMILTON ST.
♦IOLIIE TO TOUR INTISHINT, 111.01108 ON TOUR
GOOD GOODS & CHEAP PRICES
La Ica have Peace, in nthir words go to Schreiber Jiro's
• for
DRY. GOODS.
Hear ye I Take notice old and young, male and female,
rich and poor, high and low, bond and free, all are sum
moned to appear to render a good and valid reason why
they should not pantie., their . ,
FOREIGN & DOMESTIC DRESS GOODS
SCHREIBER BROS.' •
-A failure to appear and answer la a forfeit of ►SO to your
pocket. But wo call your attention to our assortment of
BLACK DRESS SILKS, all qualities,
PLAIN SILKS, all colon;
IRISH POPLINS,
FRENCH POPLINS,
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ALPACCAB,
PLAIN AND
STRIPED MOH AIDS
HIIAWItiI
The very largest usortment of shawls that we hay
opened—all the new style..
Ladioa' Sackings of all kind., both plain andligured, at
all prices.
Belmoral fikirtathe cheapest aver brought to Allentown,
DOMESTIC GOODS, such as bleached and unbleached
sheeting MUSH., bleached ;tad unbleached ebeeting tick
ing, cotton and linen table diaper, gingham., checks and
.calicou, as low as tho lowest:
Martiallle. quilts and cotton cover. of all descriptions.
Our stock of Mourning Mode in such endless variety that
it would be impossible to enumerate.
We would reepeatfully invite attention to the fact we
are determined not to be undersold, and will cell cheaper
than any establishment in Allentown. Ladles of Allen
.town and adjoining nominee you l ero paying too much for
a nd go
Study your intereet,and make up your mind,
and go to Schreiber Bros for bargains in drY geed. We
have marked our goods down and propose to do a cash
stove c hi our
,motto Is "A al l penny Is better than a
clew .hoop``. ' A call Is all we ask—you will leave
Whled. Yours respectfully.
mar 17, ID SCHREIBER BROTHERS.
IMPORTANT TO BUYERS OF
DRY GOODS
THE . " BEE HIVE,"
THE POPULAR DRY GOODS STORE
920 CHESTNUT STREET,
PHILADELPHIA,
leer many year• conducted as Ma
"PARIS CLOAK AND MANTILLA SMPORIUM"
J. W. PROCTOR & CO.,
Will offer the doming seasonal POPULAR PINCUS It OR
CASH, an entirely New Block of
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC DRY GOODS
Including Spring and Someone Drees Goods, In the largest
Illse/iro l gtlered
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til d .V 7 b h r . il l 4 Linens,
D in o d rn :hoeeo nr Vloe.Ofalk
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Dress Goods,
CLOAKS, BACQUES. de., In this department ■n unrivalled
assortment. as prices from SO upwards.
SHAWLS QF ALL KINDS, •
Including laws Los Cloaks Samos. and Points, and
earlobe
iou other goods adapted to lie Popular Trade, which
sold at
ECONOMICAL PRICES.
1.• Lai I oa
J. W. PROCTOR & CO.,
THE "BEE HIVE,"
NO.. 920 CITEBTNUr STREET,
PHILADELPHIA
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(Organized under She Charter In 111600
Money reeehred on Deposit, and d per cent. Intoned al
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VOL. XXIII.
WIDOWFIOOD:
A maiden Is morels , s gushing young things
Who can walls, play duets, even possibly slug
A green Ilttlo fool, either awkward or pert,
Who ham learned lots of nonsense, but not how to girt
no'. pretty to look at, bat don't let her Weak I
If you mako an allusion, she'll fancy It's Greek,
And when you are wise will just gWe her a cursory
Glance, and regret shot she's come froM the nursery.
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A wife is • Eloise you may say what you will,
But 'tin biller to swallow the conjugal pill :
And the girl uninstructed, in always a martyr,
For every mati ie by nature a Tartar.
Imagine her, fresh from the boarding-school, rich In
The entente of hills and the art of the kitchen
For men; yott'll observe, are such gluttonous shiners,
They're an aavago an beam If they don't get good dinners.
But a widow—young, grotty, and witty—with Plenty
Of money—and Just a few years over twenty
Oh, that's the best thing for 111 woman to be... .
the's learned the whole secret sbe'• perfectly free.
Iler general tone will be sad, but out toierolotta t
And egad, the dear contore'• eonfoundedly Baritone,
,If your rent-roll Is good, and your youth In Ile bloom
'Ware widow, my friend—or proem for year doom.
The widow her holiday fallyeoloym ;
She effaces the girl.. 1104 I. followed bY boy.:
Pak vision, ;Me forma of a future divine,
But think. all the while—" All the Present I. mluo
Attilat some. 0 day.when It certainly seem.
Something real should replace her delectable dream;
So .be chooses her second—l pity the child
May Ler temper be sweat, and her tinny mild I
MAKING. HASTE TO BE RICH.
The dreadful domestic tragedy which has
just occurred in Philadelphia—the murder by
an insane husband of his wife and two children,
and his subsequent, anielde—is full of warning
to a large class of men who believe themselves
to ho peculiarly exempt from Intellectual in
firmities. Mr. Blackstone, the unfortunate
gentleman who destroyed himself and his fam
ily, had invested his capital in a business which
was reallyprosperous and profitable : but by
the dishonesty of anaccountant, a considerable
amount of cash had been embezzled. There
was no deficiency which the resources of the
partnership were not ample to meet ; but the
theft and loss of so large a sum overthrew the
mind of Mr. Blackstone, until in his madness
ho sought with perverted tenderness to save
those who , were dear to him from want by
consigning them to the tomb. The motive, if
a mania his condition can be said to have a
motives was undoubtedly creditable to the
best feelings of his nature ; but the original
delusion was a mistaken notion, a melancholy
and morbid over-estimate of the value and
importance of Money. This delusion has at
all times been a fruitful source of insanity. It
has filled the brains of squalid alchemists with
dreams at once a pleasure and a pain ; it has
beguiled the half-clad and half-fed miser into a
contentment with nakedness and an indiffer
ence to hunger ; it has destroyed the sweetest
natural relations and changed brothers to ene
mies; it has caused those who were at first in
genuous to become badly subtle and full of
dissimulation ; it has proved too strong for
constitutional benevolence, and has made the
hand close and griping which nature meant
should be generously open ; it has developed
new forms of felony and led men into peculiar
and irresistible temptations ; it has provoked
disgraceful breaches of the most sacred trusts
and the cruel spoliation of the widow and the
fatherless ; and for more than a moiety of all
the pain and misery of this groaning globe it
is either directly or indirectly responsible. But
avarice can hardly be considered at this time a
distinguishing mark of the money-maker.
Generally, if his gains have been great, his'
expenditures have kept pace with them, and
he has been anxious to proclaim by luxurious
ostentation the golden favors which have been
bestowed upon him. But it is easy to see that
this profusion only adds to his eager appetite
by Increasing the demand upon his check-book.
To be rich contents the miser; to be thought.
rich is the passion of the modern votary of
Plutus. This is not a feeling which is confined
to Wall street, nor does it influence those alone
who stir the foundation of the market by large
transactions. If a man's sphere be a narrow
one, within that sphere he wishes to be thought
successful ; and he looks eagerly forward from
the twilight of small things to the broad noon
day of unlimited opulence. Such passions are
contagious, and are shared by most of those
who buy and sell. Pecuniary losses become
the worst of misfortunes; he who owes and
cannot pay is the vilest of criminals ; rivals in
trade arc hated and, if possible, crushed, until
society seems to be hold together only by the
cohesive power of mutual loss and gain. Here
and there is a man who is driven from his
equanimity by the prospect of inaolvency;and
is half mad because he has promised what he
cannot perform ;" but failure to most is distaste
ful because it will entail a diminution of im
portance, and imply a want of commercial
talent. A third or fourth place in the race
may content the majority, but to be wholly
distanced is intolerable. In one of Mr. Irving's .
earliest but most exquisite sketches there is the
story of a merchant who was overtaken by
bankruptcy, and whose principal thought was
of the discomforts and privations which his
young and lovely wife would be forced, in con
sequence of his reverses, to suffer. It is hardly
necessary to remind the reader of the delight
ful moral of the tale—of the cheerful negates
cenCe of an amiable and loving woman in mis
fortune, of the summer light which her pres
ence diffused throUghout the new and humble
home. If men would but remember how
many excellent pleasures, how many elevating
pursuits, how many of the worthiest ends, are
quite independent of mere material wealth ; if
they would but consider the ambitions which
best become our better nature ; if they would
but think how truth, and love, and constancy,
and self sacrifice,, are oftenest most beautifully
developed in ati atmosphere of poverty ; if they
would but reflect that no bankruptcy can de
prive them of the charms of nature, of the
gratifications of study, of the happiness of
home, they might be less eager in the pursuit
of wealth, and leas inconsolable for the loss of
It.. But we have forgotten the better half of
the lesson which Dr. Franklin taught ns. We
are willing enough to thrive luxuriantly, but
we are not willing to enjoy moderately. It is
safe to say that none of the admonitions of that
fine old man, which are oftenest quoted in de
fense of, atxjaisition, refined to enormous ag
gregations of private wealth such as in our day
have become almost too common for notice.
' Happy is ho who can hit upon the happy me
dium t who can fairly decide for himself the
relative value of different schemes of life; and
Who . can be content with poverty if It be his
portion, or wise in the use of wealthishould it
be vouchsafed to Wm.—N. Y. Tribune.
A little boy, on being asked his age on
his return to school In September, replied thee
he was seven In April. " Seven I" said the,
questioner, In some surprise; "your Mother
told me last September that you were more
than seven. You must have been eight hit
April." " Yes`m, I was eight; bqt , mutker
said I was too small for eight, so she pttt'ite
back to seven."
ALLENTOWN, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 14, 1869.
A FEW HINTS.
BY REV. UENRY WARD BEECHER
Borne Improprieties and mistakesinto which
young people fall might possibly be prevented,
If more frequent hints were given IO news
papers. There are thousands of young men
and women who have no other-sources of In
struction. They have had but slenderculture,
add they have no one skilled in literary tech
nics to whom they can turn. The newspaper
Oust play school-master to such.
I. People In trouble, or who want some
special thing, usually select the man who is
most talked about—whose name is constantly
In the newspapers, or, if the object be money,
one who is often spoken of as rich; or who Is
made rich by the imagination of people. Let
us suppose a worthy widow, much stralteneil
in pecuniary affairs, thinks it worth her while
to write to Win. E. Dodge, a gentleman of
known wealth and benevolence. No reply Is
received. She Imagines that her letter mis
carried. She sends another. This too is not
replied to. She marvels. She suspects that
after all Mr. Dodge is not the generous man
she took him for.
But what became of the letter ? It arrived
with twenty or thirty other begging letters,
was opened by his clerk, and being a begging
letter, from a stranger far distant, the clerk
simply dropped it Into the waste•basket, where
It found goodly company. In that waste
basket, In a single morning, doubtless might
be found letters asking for from ten to twenty
thousand dollars, by persons utterly without
claim upon Mr. D. There is no possible rea
son why every other man In the nation should
not have naked him for five hundred dollars.
There is no reason of courtesy which requires
an answer. Begging money, by letter, of
utter strangers, is a thing so discreditable, that
neglect is a very mild penalty.
But people write on other errands—on pub
lic affairs, on various projects, to ask advice,
to make suggestions about what the recipient
of the letter might, could, would, or should
do, &c. Were only a few such letters sent,
g od:nature would incline to reply. But the
reasons which lead scores in Connecticitt to
send, act in like manner in Massachusetts, in
Ohio, Pennsylvania and in every State. The
very number becomes something 'appalling.
It is said that Horace Greeley answers every
letter. It is incredible I We require testi
mony to the fact. We suspect Edward Ever
ett did, and that every note was tit to print.
But Mr. Everett never stood at the focus of
supplicatory letters.
2. Young writers and careless persons often
neglect to Welds° a return postage stamp.
When the business of a letter concerns both
parties alike, or in a friendly letter between
equals, no such thing is required. But thou
sands of letters go through the mall daily ask
ing for autographs—sometimes enclosing a
directed envelope, with no return stamp.
This Is asking a person to pay three cents for
the privilege of doing you a favor. If a com
mittee wishes Dr. Chapin to lecture in Green
Corners, ought he to pay three cents for the
trouble of saying that he cannot do it V
" What is three cents ?" you reply. " A
man must be mean that , will stand about three
cent,,.'•
That is the very thougkt, probably, that
passed through his mind, when ho saw that
you saved your three cents and ask him to pay
it for you, about your, and not his business.
But it is not a matter of three cents, but of
many hundred times three. And If commit
tees receive no answers to lecture letters, it
is because gentlemen decline to pay the post
age on other people's business. If a lecturer
accepts an engagement, it Is different. Then
ho becomes a party in interest. In short, it is
a matter of simple justice, that you should pay
for the transaction of your. own business.
8. If a gentleman were to receive a single
letter beginning, " You will be surprised to
receive a letter from an entire stranger," it
would seem proper enough. But when two
or three In each mall—scores every month be.
gin In this strain, the emotion produced is
rather ludicrous. One ceases to have the least
surprise at that, or anything else, In the con
tents of a letter.
Never begin a letter with a long apology
Poople'a time is worth too much. Come to
the baldness in hand at the very first line.
Make explanations and apologies afterwards,
If at all. But both'of these are rubbish. They
make no impression, or only an unfavorable
one. A long personal history may be of In
terest to the subject of it, or to his Mends ;
but . to a gentleman hundreds of miles away. -
pressed out of measure for time to fulfil his
own duties, such histories are burdensome.
They impede your request.
DIAMONDS.
13=I
The New York correspondent of the Chica
go Republican tells the following:
Private luxury has probably reached its cli
max in this country in Jteifth Avenue house,
between Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets.
The rooms were described as fitted up with
thrniture having India camel's hair coverings,
after the style long admired for the boudoirs
of duchesses in England. The suit for the
drawing-room was brought from the French
Exhibition ; the doors are of very fine bronzes,
imported, with the family monogram Inlaid
in solid silver ; the curtains are so fine and
heavily wrought as to start the rumor that they
were of round point, in whichcase they . would
cost .2,000 a window, which even these pri n cc-
Americans are hardly ready to give. Some of
the finest diamond sets at the Exposition were
brought. over for the lady of this house,:whose
jewels compare with those of the highest
nobility.
This lady met with a singular loss of dia
monds some time since, which is worth notic
ing. Perhaps half a million dollars invested
in these stones was kept in a safe in her dress
ing-room, and the khz of the safe was locked
In a box in a private drawer.
On coming up from dinner one day, she
found the key on her dressing hureau,'and
valuable diamonds in old-fashioned settings,
which were heirlooms, had been stolen. On
applying to Mr. Tiffany, the Jeweler, for ad
vice, he recommended her to advertise for the
lost diamonds, offering just as large a reward
as she felt disposed to give, and promising no
questions should be asked;
The next morning a note was slipped under
the hall door, saying the jewels would be de
livered in the lady's own house at such an
hour in the afternoon, In the presence of her
self and husband only. The reward offered;
by thb way, was $5,000. -
The lady sent for. Mr. Tiffany's head4etter
of diamonds tobeonluirui to inspect the stones
lest they. should prove imitations. The how
passed, end tbewhole evening, but no jewels
appeared. The next morning anothep, mkt
was slid under the door, saying that It was
useless forth° lady to have spectators concealed
In the back parlor, as , she had on the previous
day, or to send for a judge of diamonds—the
writer was a gentleman and would return the
real stones.
He next appointed a place of meeting on a
vacant lot near the Central Park, where ho
would receive the reward at the hands of a
single person and deliver the stones. Further,
the money must contain no marked bills, and
no large ones, which would excite remark
wherechanged. If she chose 'to comply with
these terms she should have her diamonds,
otherwise she would never Hie them again, as
New York was growing too hot for the writer,
and he meant to leave. '
A serving man went to th spot to receive
the package of stones. He was met by a gen
tlemanly person, whose face was concealed,
and the bargain was made.
The Jewels were all right. The robber said
he slipped in the basement aftera grocer's boy
at dusk, and hid himself till the family were
at dinner, when ho went up' to the dressing
room, Here he was twice interrupted by the
entrance of a maid ; he went Into one closet
of the room while the girl was in the other,
and if it had not been for this huindrance he
would have taken all the diainonds, and no
reward would have tempted Mtn tbbrlngthem
back.
The Safety Trust CompanyOvhlch locks up
its valuables in its vaults, must make it easier
for these rich people to sleep in their own
houses of nights.
WHOM DO GREAT MEN MARRY?
Women, of course. But they show the
same diversity of taste that is seen in the lower
ranks, and on the whole make worse mistakes.
They, however, generally show the same sense
in eituogng wives that they show In managing
other paSple's affairs, whether it be good or
bad.
Robert Burns married a farm girl with whom
ho fell in love while they worked together In
the plow field. Hai too, was irregular In his
life, and committed the most serious mistakes
in conducting his 'domestic affairs.
Milton married the daughter of a country
Squire, but lived with her but a short time.
He was an austere, exacting, literary recluse;
while she was a rosy, romping country lass
that could not endure the restraint Imposed
upon her, so they separated. Subsequently,
however, she returned, and they lived tolera
bly happy.
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were cou
sins, and about the only example In the long
line of English monarchs, wherein the marital
vows were sacredly observed and sincere affec
tion existed.
Shakspeare loved and wedded a farmer's
daughter. She was faithful to her vows, but
we could hardly say the same for the great
bard hlmSelf. Like most of the great poets,
he showed too little dlscriufination in bestow
ing his affection on the other sex.
Byron married Miss 'Milbank to get money
to pay his debts. It turned out a bad shift.
Benjamin Franklin married the girl who
stood in her father's door and laughed at him
as he wandered through the streets of Phlla
delphia with rolls of bread under his arms and
his pockets filled with dirty clothes. She had
occasion to be happy when she found herself
the wife of such a great and good man.
Washington married a widow with two
children. It Is enough to say of her that she
was worthy of him, and that they lived as
married folks should, in perfect harmony.
John Adams married the daughter of a Pres
byterian clergyman. Her father objected, on
account of John's being a lawyer ; he had a
bad opinion of the morals of the profession.
Thomas Jefferson married Mrs. Martha'
Skelton, a childless widow, but she brought
him a large fortune in real estate. After the
ceremony she mounted the horse behind him,
and they rode home together. It was late in
the evening, and they found the fire out. But
the great statesman bustled, about and rebuilt
it, while she siezed the broom, and soon put
things in order. Ills needless to say that they
'were happy, though Jefferson died a poor man,
on account of his extreme liberality and hos
pitality.
John Howard, the great philanthropist,
married his nurse. She was altogether be
neath him in social life and intellectual capac•
ity, and'hesides this, was fifty-two years old
while ho was but twenty-five. He would not
take " No" for an answer, and they were
married, and lived happily together until her
death, which occurred two years afterward.
Peter the Great, of Russia, married a 7dant
girl. She made an excellent wife and a sa
gacious empress. Humboldt married a poor
girl because he loved her. Of course they
were happy. •
It •Is not generally known that Andrew
Jackson married a lady whose husband was
still living. Sha-was an uneducated but-ami
able Woman, and was most devotedly attached
to the old warrior and statesman.
John C. Calhoun married Ills cousin, and
their children, fortunately, were neither dis
eased nor idiotic, but they do not evince the
talent of the great "States' Rights" advocate.
Edward Lytton Bulvrer, the English states
man and novelist, married a girl much his in
ferior In position, and got a shrew for a wife.
She is now insane.
—A BEAUTIFUL PAVAAGE. - 71110 following
Is from the reveries of a bachelor, by Ike Mar
vel : "A poor man without some sort of-re
ligion is at best but a poor reprobate, the foot
ball of destiny, with no tie linking him to in
finity and the wondrous eternity that is even
worse—a dame without heat, a Itainbow with.
out color, a flower tylthout perfume. A man
may, in some sort, tie his hope sad his honor
to this shifting ground tackle, to his business
or the world, but a woman withdat that anchor
called faith, is a drift and a wreck I A man
may in some sort of moral responsibility out of
relation to mankind, but awol, in her com
paratively isolated sphere, wh er e } affection and
not purpose is the controlling motive, can find
no basis In any other systemo u tright action
but that of faith. •A " man y craze his
thoughts to trustfulness, In such , poor harbor
age as fame and reputation may istretch before
him, but a woman—where cart she put her
hopes In storms, It not Heaved ? And that
sweet truthfolness—that abiding love—that
enduring hope mellowing ev pageoand
scene in life—lightening them pith radiance,
when the world'a storms break like an army
with cannon . : Who can bestor Its all but
hay soul, tied towhat is strongerthius au army
with cannon i Who MS enjoyed the love of a
Christian mother, but will echo the thought
with energy, and hallow It with tears ?
Dinmenori.—The sentimental Stern was,
correct when he said that to deceive Is a bass
Snide at best ; but to deceive those we love
and Value, Js s foly so totsUy inexcusable. that
we delysal the nets of sophistry to from an
argument in its favor.
ABOUT THE POTATO.
WHAT ARE THE BEST KINDS TO PLANT?
The Potato question has become one of con
sidemble importance to the farming communi
ty. The old sorts having "run out," great
efforts are made not only to supply their place
but largely to. improve on them. There are
several new varieties which have proved ex
cellent and others are being produced that
may be still better. I feel great interest in the
question myself, and have cultivated most of
the new kinds. I gave some directions in
'your paper about one year ago, and I have but
little to add.
Foss LATE POTATOES, I would plant the
"Harrison." This is one of the Goodrich
seedlings, and for productiveness and good
keeping—as well as good eating qualities,
stands very fair. To confirm what I say; and
what I do say is from actual experience and
observation, there is no theorizing or conjec
ture about it, but demonstrated facts, and all
who have tried the "Early Goodrich" and
"Harison," and gave them a fair chance, will
fully agree with the that 400 bushels of the
" Goodrich" and 500 bushels of the " Harrison"
can be grown to the acre, and wither:ea oars,
500 to 600 bushels. •
ECONOMY Or SEED.—I said in my former
article that 41 bushels of Early Goodrich will
plant an acre, seed cut one eye to a piece, set
one foot'apart in the'row ; if set Arleen inches
as I recommended, about 8 bushelswill plant
an acre. But If cut and planted in the old
plan it will take 14 to 16 bushels to the acre.
CUTT/F0 THE SEED.—It is very important
to knoW how to do this properly and econom- -
teeny. The old plan is to begin at the point
end of the potato. In these days of progress
we reverse the order, and we now begin at
the stem or butt end, holding the point end
from you, slicing towards you, cutting a slop
ing slice off with only one eye. As we proce&l
towards the point where the eyes come out
more numerously, we are enabled to give each
eye at the point a larger share of the mother
potato ; in this way there are no lost eyes.
Now it is of vast importance that each eye be
preserved. Every eye or bud 'Abed off only
tends to retard the growth just the length of
time It took to push out that much. .
Beed not already in the cellar should be pro
cured as early as possible before the sprouts
push, as each sprout rubbed off is any injury if
not a total loss, for Inhere should not ben dor
mant eye to take the place of the lost eye, the
set is worthless and the space It occupies In
the ground is lost. The seed can be carefiffly
cut up in cold or rainy days (when out-door
work can't be done) and speed out thin on
floors to dry. When so treated the eyes be
come stout and strong, and come up vigor-
ously.
I will give you some of my experience in the
potato since I wrote you my former article. I
had some Goodrich cooked to-day, and I find
they have improved, but they are not so good
as 'Harrison. Generally the reputation of the
Goodrich has been behind this year in quality,
yet on some soils they have proved excellent.
Finding mine to be so very good last winter,
(1868), I stopped using them, kept them for
seed and used Peach-Blows. They did finely
on somp farms and on others not so well,—
and in a few instances better than any other.
The Peach-Blows rot badly with me end gen
erally on Staten-Island.
We have been eating the Harrison all winter
It is not first-rate but good. The flavor is ex
cellent and keep long In the spring without
sprouting.
Last season was very bad for potatoes, it
being too wet, and all the early kinds took a
second growth. The famous "Rose" you
see—(Mr. T. sent us by mail 4 lbs.—ED).—
are knobby and sprouting.
If you cut the Rose carefully you can make
about 60 eyes from a pound of seed, and if
planted at 16 or 18 Inches In the rows and the
rows three 'feet apart, each pound of seed
should give three bushels of potatoes. As to
quality, at digging-time and for summer use,
I don't wish any better potato. Of course,
owing to scarcity, we have not used them
generally; but I am confident the Rose will
give great satisfaction to growers. I have
none to sell, most of mine being engaged
beyond what I want to plant.
We had cooked to-day,two Rose potatoes,
and they proved dry and mealy and of fine
flavor. lam now: satisfied they will prove a
good family potato for winter as well as• sum
mer. They come about as near to the old
Mercer as anything I know of. We cannot
grow the Mercerliere at ten dollars a bushel ;
it rots so badly-that no one now attempts to
grow it. -
I saw some fine specimens of Mercer grown
on Long Island, the seed said to have come
from Maine.
I have written a rough-and-tumble and hasty
letter, not for the press, but for your eye only ;
still if there is an idea in it worth extracting, it
is at your service. J. C. Toomrsow.
Thomkinseak, Staten-island.
PLANTING OUT STRAWBERRIES
We hare no time to answer individual in
quiries in relation to garden crops. We try
to inform all, so far as we are able to do so,
how we manage things successfully, and they
can follow us If they see proper.
As to planting Stsawbcrries, about which
we have many inquirers, there are several
ways. Of course the ground mustbe-dng a
good depth, and pulverized carefully, having
applied a liberal quantity of barnyard manure.
The beds can be marked out three feet wide
and Matte as long as may be desired. Let the
footpaths between the beds be eighteen inches
apart and remove from them all the runners
as fast as they encroach. Set the plants firmly
but not too deeply in 'the ground, one foot
apart each way. Get the Triomphe de Gand,
which is of mixed sexes, and Hovey's Seed
ling, which Is a pistillate, and plant them in
alternate beds, but do not let them mix, which
they will do If the vines are allowed to cross
the paths. Some persons may prefer Russell's
Prolific, which is an excellent variety, or Jut
cunda, which cannot well be beaten. Either
of these can be substituted for Triomphe, if
Hovey Is retained, which we would adviie, as
there is no be - Ivy - more certain to give a crop,
or which Is handsomer In appearance, which
will bear as many years without renewing the
bed, or whittle is much superior in quality.
Thuslar we have cultivated no strawberry at
all equal to the Triomphe. If a crop Is wanted
exclusively for marketing choose the Albany
Seedling by all means. It will produce gen
erally a greater quantity of fruit than any other
and will bring in the most money. •
Many persons Prefer thela/ system of plant
ing out strawberries, sad with some very
strong-growing varieties it may pciisibly be
the beet. But from our own experience We
prefer the broadcast planthig. - It has several
advantages. The 'plate keep the ground''
moister, it makes' lea Libor, tad the bode
last twice as long by producing new bearing
plants every year. In the hills the old plants
are fruited year after year, and as a conse
quence the berries yearly get smaller.
One thing must be particularly bomb in
mind : the beds must be kept clear of weeds,
for if they are allowed to *get headway they
will seriously damage the crop. Late in au
tumn the beds should be covered with straw or
light manure, and in the spring the very
coarsest portion should either be removed or
carefully placed about the plants. When this
is done, should the plants have been disturbed
by the frost, pass over them a light roller, or
apply about an inch of fine soil to the whole
bed.
It will be found, we think, In a great ma
jority of cases of failure' in cultivating the
strawberry, that the frost ha'S had much to do
with It ; and that on examination the largest
portion of the roots are above ground, and af
ford no support to the plants, which, as a con.
sequence are stunted In growth as is also the
fruit In size.
If any top-dressing is applied, •It should be
in the spring, and then there is nothing better
than a light coating of grOund bones.—Ger
manto Telegraph.
A SCENE AT " STEWARTS."
An honest countryman from Putnam corm.
ty, dropped into the store, with his wife hang
ing on one arm, his daughter on the other,
and his boy Dick clinging to his coat tail—the
whole group singularly antiquated and out of
fashion. After a long and eager stare at the
goods, the candelabras, mirrors, etc., and with
looks of astonishment at the bustle and con
' fusion—they were courteously asked by one
of the clerks whether he should have the pleas
ure of waiting upon them.
" Well, now, that's polite in you," said the
old man. "My darter would like to have a
shawl to go to our village church with."
The clerk, with looked like a wag, produced
a package carefully made 4, from which he
selected a yellow shawl with a broad and rich
border.
" Well, now," said the old lady, "I vow
this feels like the back au mouse—so soft and
velvety ? Feel of it, Joanna."
The yOung lady felt of it, and said it felt
"mighty smooth and soft l" She asked if the
colors would last, and was assured that they
would never run or worth out. Dick crept up
softly, andliN e d a feel of it. Finally the clerk
threw it gr fully over her shoulders, and
took her to a mirror, where she saw herself at
full length, and was higidy pleased with the
beautiful article. The whole family passed an
opinion on its beauty and becoming colors,
and after a long conference, they resolved to
have it.
" What might be the price of this 'ere
shawl I." said the honest farmer.
" Fifteen hundred dollars, sir I" said the
clerk.
It was a camel's hair shawl, front Circassia,
ono of the richest and most costly articles, ever
imported. The farmer looked at his wife, and
tho wife looked significaptly at the daughter
who hung down her head despairingly, while
little Dick, with one finger in his mouth, had
been awed to silence by the awful price.
' 6 TIMM mu Mr," ntddthrcountryman t draw
ing a long deep sigh ; ",would you believe it,
sir? Why that 'ere oluiwk is the price of my
farm in old Putnam county : thirty-two acres,
house, barn and piggery 1"
The clerk smiled, the old man looked grave,
the ladies looked frightened, and the whole
party slid out of the store in terror.
The Whole world, however, was not made
of such worthy economical souls. There were
some ladies who did not faint at a thousand
dollar shawl, or a three 'hundred dollar dress
of India muslin, worked with gold ; and were
it not for those who have orimagine they have
such heavy purses, how could this marble
palace have been built, or what is of equal im
portance, how could it be sustained ? Twelve
thousand dollars a yew-for rent, must be made
by asking stern prices on everything, and as
sternly refusing any abatemens.
DRIPPINGS ON TIIE SOIL
—The American Agricuiturist, of New
York City, recommends ." shearing off the
hair of work-horses in Winter, to prevent
their taking cold."
—The New. York Tribune affirms that, "if
the fields'ofour country were plowed eighteen
inches deep, the product -would be increased
(me-third the present anfbunt."
—The Hearth and Home, of New York
City, says : " The beet bank is a bank of earth.
It never refuses to .discount to honest labor.
The best shares are plow -shares, on which
dividends are always liberal."
manure is of a nitrogenous kind, dump
it in plies and cover it with soil to prevent the
escape of the ammonia.
—Steam can never be employed on small
farms as a satisfactory substitute for horses.
—Keeping an innumerable tribe of rats on
the premises and two or three big lazy dogs,
which never molest the vermin, is the right
way to be a poor farmer..
—Spending rainy days In groceries and bar.
roo Instead of being at home putting things
to rigr ts, when one may have leisure, Is thp
true way to be morbid, miserable and mean.
—The point, dear Crokkers, is this : You
cannot earn unless you labor. Reaping comes
from sowing, and thrive you never will until
you learn to "Pray to God and keep the
plows agoing.
—The Journal of the him, Philadelphia,
Pa., says : "The most iitillosophic way to ex
terminate Canada thistles is to cultivate them
with a view of making money out of the seed
and thorns, as then the worms will gnaw the
plants; bugs will bitethem ; grubs will bore
them ; aphides will suck out the juice; ,birds
will pick them; heat will sorch them; rain
will drown them, and mildew will cover the
leaves."
—When the cattle are fed on straw, theboyd
on skimmed milk, the old men on fat pork and
the hens are • obliged to scratch for a living,
the breath of the beaux of the girls will smell
of whisky.
—The Ruralise to Ohio Volley •Oultirdtor,
Cincinnati, Ohio, "Advises everybody to col•
lect all the toads of the country into their
gardens to devour the noxious insects."
—The Northwestern Asrmer, Indianapolis,
Ind., says: "Two young ladles of lowa lave
taken up lands in.that State, under the Home
stead act, and purpose running a farm on their
own account."
--Eds. bushels of peas are equal to ten of In.
dlete corn for fittenlng swine.
—The smallest bits of bone should not ,he
allowed to go to wastelbout the house, while
the soil of the orchard, y garden or, field is in
great need - of such a fertilizer.
—Tile Model "taut, Corinth, 3115 e., says:
"A horse has the io - Wer of swelling out bis
lungs, of breathing hard, trotting or gellOp
ing, withotit 'inconvenience, provided Ills
stomach is not gorged with. food."
' WILLS & 'UDELL, I
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NO. 15
VIOLET TTMI
Violet-time is come again ;
Once morn laughing through the rain,
Spring with sunny crown advances,
Outman glittering on his lances.
Long live Spring I—the rainbow arch
Greets his coronation march ;
Green his banners, free and bravo,
From each tree-top rustling wave.
Birds before him fly In crowds ;
Fast above him Boat the clouds;
Swifter run rejoicing riven;
Sunbeam darts are In his quivers
Where be Wendt, primroses rise,
And the deletes ope their eyes
Black-birds sing In every bush,
Answering the merry thrash.
Swelled's are his heralds fleet,.
Faster than the pulses beat;
Butterflies between the showers,
Tell the glad news to the flowers.
Our old monarch, Wlnter,'s dead;
His crown Is on another head;
Sunbeams chase the envious rain;
Violet time is come again.
—What Is blacker than a crow ? Ans.—A
crow's feathers.
—Why does a chicken MSS the road. Ans.
--Because it wants to get on the other side.
—What relation is a step to a door mat ?
Ane.—A step-father.
—When is a bed not a bed? Ans.—When
It is a little buggy.
—What Is the prettiest lining for a bonnet ?
Al3Ol.—A pretty face.
—Wby is a railroad conductor like a bad
cold t Ans.—One knows the stops, the other
stops the nose.
—A story Is told of a young artist who was
greatly attracted by the beauty of a lady who
sat at a window in the house opposite his
studio. He sent glances of admiration up to
her window whenever he passed Into or out
of his room. At length, one day, seeing her
In the street, his artistic tastes ran away with
his good judgment, and reaching her, panting
with the haste he had made, gasped out, "Oh,
miss, your lovely blonde hair. lam dying to
paint it I" The lady with a quick movemen
put her hand to her head, and then holding it
out with her hair at arm's length, exclaimed,
"Take it I there it is I Send It back when you
have done with it, and stop staring at my
window. My husband is dreadfully jealous,
and will thrash you for your impudence.'
The crestfallen artist has not been on a chase
for "lovely blonde hair" since.
—AN enterprising saloon keeper in Erie
dodges the responsibility of having drunken
men making disturbances in his place by an
ingenious method. If they get more liquor
Van they can well carry, he marches off with
them to some saloon a good distance off, takes
a drink-with them and slips away, leaving
them and the saloon proprietor he has foisted
them on, to settle their difficulties just as they
please.
—" What Is this hero Ten Year of Office
bill I" we heard one old lady shy tot 11tItor
In the cars yesterday. "Law I don't
know l It's a law that everybody shall
In office ten years"-- "Gracious sakes I
don't say so I Tha'll just suit my Billy—he s
In the Custom House."
*--A choleric old gentleman, becoming en
raged at the stupidity of an aged and faithful
servant., exclaimed, " Zounda I you dolt, I shall
go out of my wits at your dullness I" To
which the honest old servitor replied, " Well
there is one comfort, master—you won't hose
to go far I"
—"'You have lost sonic of your friends, I
see," said a traveller to a negro, whom he bad
met on the road. • "Yes, massa." "Was it
a.near or distant relative T" "Well purty die
tant—'bout twenty-four mile," was the reply.
—A Cincinnati genius advertises for it situ
ation, saying that " Work is not so much an
object as good wages."' The Boston Ado,er
thee thinks he ought to have a plact on the
police force.
—lf you will stick to the farm and labor
faithful and diligently, the chances of 'ince*
will be ninety-five per cent. in your favor
rather than ninety-five per cent. against you,
if you abandon the cultivation of the soil.
—The young men of Chicago are said to be
classified according to their skill as velociped
isle into the "timid-toddlers," the "wary
wabblers." the "go•it-gracefuls" and the
"fancy few."
—Creditors are like corns; they arc always
reminding one where the shoe pinches. The
only way to get rid of them is to cut them and
that won't prevent them coming again.
—lke's last trick was to throw Mrs. Part
ington's old gaiter in the alley, and call the
old lady down from the third floor to see an
alley-gaiter..
—The Louisville Journal objects to female
suffrage, because it would.create too much
"pairing off" at the polls.
—A Paris shopkeeper has been fined for
exhibiting goods in his window marked at a
lower figure than he would sell.
—A man recently brought a bill of $4 against
his brother's estate in San Francisco, "for
loss of time in attending the funeral." .
—The Scientific Anierienn says the dispatches
sent by the Atlantic cable telegraph from Lon
don, to-day, arrive in New York yesterday.
—A wag proposes to publish a new paper
to be called the Comet, with an original tale
every week.
—Poneh thinks the poorest farmer In the
land, if unable to feed his calves, can always
graze his ships.
—Why Is a baby like a sheafof wheat ?-13e.
cause it is first cradled, then thrashed, and
finally becomes the flower of the family.
—The " beat illustrated paper out"
note
—An editor in Michigan haw inherited a
graveyard.. '
—The Bible is now printed in over two hun
dred different languages. ' •
—Advertising is said to be "the extension
of your shop front in the newspapers."
—Agassiz tells of a fish in Brazil that climbs
a tree.
—A lilue squirrel waif caught in Delaware
county.
—A Western paper speaks of a certain lady
In public as an "ornament to bib sexes."
—ln honor of the birth of the first born
" catnip weddings" have been Invented.
—A jolly couple--Thetwohalves of a bank
note.
—Why are fov►L faablonable birdet- 7 Be•
cause they always appear dressed for dinner.
—ituomatans—That i?ersous should see
better with specs on thole eyei.
When are glows* unsaleable ? When they
are kept on hand.
—Bent on an object—A dog's tall.
OPITAINI,
ALLENTOWN. PA
NSW DESIGNS.
CONUNDRUMS.
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