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line each subsequent insertion.
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ROBERT IREDELL, Jn., Puninunn,
ALLENTOWN, PA
Elrn GOOlitS.
6 6 SUDDEN CHANGE."
WILL LOW PIUCIES INFLUENCE YOU?
OLD TIMES AGAIN
IMMENSE REDUCTION IN PRICES!
THE OLD CORNER
Just opened an enormous
STOCK OF SPRING GOODS,
Which a. u■ual for
lITYLE. TWISTY, AND LOWNBRB OP PRICE
shall and cannot bo anrpnand.
sir Competition deed with any oilier EstabittAment
outside of the larger eitles..2l
SPACE WILL NOT PERMIT OF NAMING such an im
mense Mock of goods, but let It eußoo to say that we have
the meet COMPLET E assortment of Ladles Dress Goods,
Dress Silks, Poplins, Shawl., Baimomls, House Furnish.
tug (Mode, Ladles' Cloaking Cloth, Men's Wear In Cloth,
Cassimeres, gm, and everything that s kept In a FIRST..
CLASS DRY 0 CODS STORE In endless variety. Ido not
"QUOTE PRICES" as some houses do, butwill guarantee
ASTONISFITNG FIGURES.
The difference In prices otgoods to.day. and a month ago,
is really painful for those who have been caught with
largo stocks on hand at high prices, but as that is not the
ease with mo, I shall as heretofore make the OLD COB.
ERR
THE GREAT PLACE OP INTEREST
AND HEADQUARTERS
fer the MOM to get thole goods at the
LOWEST MARKET PRICES
I tally realise that no permanent success can be achieved
unless the promises hold out by advertisements are found
to be fully sustained on a visit to the More. Nor can it be
• large success without scrupulously reliable and fair
dealing at all limes and uniform courtesy to every custo
mer, and the endeav simp l ye every buyer a constant
dealer. All I ask is to decide by adopt blot
whether or not It la to your advantage to become a CI:MO
MS%
Respectfully Yours.
M. J. KRAMER,
"OLD CORNER,"
OPPOSITE THE EAGLE HOTEL
MUM
GREAT REDUCTION OF PRIERS
WOOLEN GOODS.
LARGE STOCK OF
FANCY SPRING CABSIMEREB,
FLANNELS, JEANS, CARPETS, &C
fa consequence of thd abundance and overstock of the
above floods In the City Markets, they cannot at present
be disposed of except at a loss to the manufacturer and
many Woolen Mills are either closed or Working on half
time. Under these circumstances, wishing to keep his
Mill running,
HENRY GABRIEL,
FIE:33
ALLENTOWN WOOLEN MILL.
lIID OP 0011111 mum'
Having a large and dee stock of the beat styles of Fancy
Casetweet,s for men's and boy's wear, as also a variety of
other Woolen Goods househ ol d,. suitable for the season
lad desired tn every has concluded to
RETAIL
AT THE PRESENT LOW
-WHOLFSALE PRICES.
Ws• entire stock of Woolen and other Goods. among
'filch are seoeralbandred plates of
ALL WOOL DOUBLE AND, TWIST
CABSTAIERE'S,
FLANNELS,
JEANS, te.,
•Of all grades. and at picas greatly reduced. Also•
splendid assortment of
INGRAIN,
LIST,
RAG,
AND OTDDR
CARPETS,
U low u 60 cents a yard.
BALMORAL BKIATB,
at M ceatu,
WOOLEN CARPET •YARN,
all colors. Beat quality reduced to 90 cents
BED COVERLETS,
All kinds White or Fancy. at !greatly reduced prices
04511 DU YERH. or those having Wool to exchange. will
middayG
find it to their Interest. In examining the oods
at his house or factory. where ho has fitted up drend
Looms for showing the same and respectfully Invites the
Mlle to call and Judge for themsolece. .
HENRY GABRIEL,
ALLENTOWN WOOLEN MILL,
South End of Eleventh Street, Allentown, Pe
ADill 14-2 m
1115 HOOP SKIRTS. 111.5
Wll. T. HOPKINS
Ras Removed Ids Manufactory and Salesrooms to
NO, 1116 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA,
Where Es "Own Make" of Champion Hoop Skirts, es.
peclally adapted to First.clms Who/male and Retail will
ru r o . gljniiih ` c , ra e tttfrdlntTdTsVg?,re s egre e e nt elt:pe . th s e .
• ifleolela d P B a l nten Mitt 111T411
lc.. together with over ninety &demo! varieties or
Illeum cod Children., Skirt., all of which (or symmetry
of style, 55103, lightness elasticity, durability and reef
uh immuc are unequaled by any other goods lathe mar.
kel, and are warranted In every respect. Shirts made to
order Altered and Itepaired, Wholmale and Retail.
Writ ine of Low Priced Rasters Made Skirts. 13 Springs,.
33 Cents
( 1 . 20 81, rings ,/ 43 Cents; 25 ,1 11Erin t ys, 53 Cents; 30
sr eti les Mi: l s c reht443i 7s ri l sllATAYi VI Ede nt
eystyles a°4. prices t . 14° ?A n are g 4l , nd ' a r trrrte I V r" y l kt
Corset extrt eueeortere. Mrs. Moody'. Patent "Self-Ad
justing Abdominal" CoMets, French. English and Domes
tic I-land-made
Co
and enperior French rattans of
Celan Corsets. "Our Own Make," to which we i n.
especial attention.
Complete assortment of Ladles' Under Garments, at very
toweicen.
0 SEAL AGENT for the DARTRAM k PANTON
♦ILY SEWING MACHINES superior to an other be
am the public. Pifty.two of these No. 1 Mach ines,
nes, Price
each, are being given away to our customer., In order
0 . 15 151 . 3 .md t EverY Person in want of articles
elsewhere. o s t o allt . nerrro 6004.
at b e fore
purchasing
and Salesrooms, No. 1116 Cueatnut St. eladelphia.
Mar3l.3mos • T. HOPKINS.
PENNSYLVANIA HOTEL,
COR 7th AND LINDEN BPI ALLENTOWN A.
The net eralaned ha e taken tbletell.known eland: The
dllte7,ll!etiltdpArj all room. Ar4 7 "_b.l . ..tiT,
IEI be be stowed epos th e nests to snake fI at
0.11 Ow/ WM& MOSES 0017 M.
cai'he If:thigh ilroiotrt+
VOL. XXIII.
19rE Goob%.
WHAT THE PAPERS
SAY OF US!
Wo have good news for our readers this week.
Ono of the celebrated Foster Brothers, the great
dry goods merchants of Now York City, is coming
to do business among us. They promise us a
Now York stock of goods at Now York prices.
Read their advertisement. It has the true ring
about it. We believe they mean what they say.
We welcome them among us, and promise them
our hearty thanks if they will persist In the war
they have declared upon high prices.—Allentoten
Democrat.
Foster had a big rush at bls opening on Monday.
The whole population scorned to be there to secure
the greatest bargains over before offered. Enter
prise is stamped everywhere and ho Is sure to suc
ceed, though ho sells goods at smaller profits than
they do anywhere this side of Now York. Tho
rush still continued yesterday, continues to-day,
and willever continuo so long as s people have a
chance to get so much for their money. Every
thought is of Foster, and no man In Allentown Is
more talked of by the fair sex. Goods sold for
greenbacks at gold prices.—Lehigh Register.
We advise our readers to go to Foster's for their
dry goods. They are Now York men and will sell
you goods at Now York prices.—Allentown Frit
denebote.
"I saved seventeen dollars on one Poplin dress
I bought at Foster's the other day." Bo we heard
a lady saying recently.—Lehigh Patriot.
Henry Ward 13ceeher once told a gentleman to
"follow the crowd" if ho desired to find his way
to his (Beecher's) church. The way to Foster's
Now York Btore is found in the same way.—lnde
pendent Republican.
FosTEu.—Foster has made good his promises.
Ho has most decidedly "revolutionized the Allen
town Dry Goods trade." We aro just finding out
what exorbitant prices we have been paying for
dry goods la Allentown. Foster actually sells
many goods for half the price we have been paying
for them. The crowd at his store Is as great as
ever, and of all who have been there to trade we
have yet to bear of a single person in any way
disappointed with his purchase.-411entourn Demo
crat.
We hear that there has been a tremendous ex
citement In the Dry Goode trade in Allentown,
during the past week. Foster's Now York City
Store, just opened, has been fairly packed with
people. They are selling goods at about half the
prices other merchants charge for them. Ono of
two things Is true ; either our merchants In this
locality have been charging us outrageous profits,
or else Foster, at Allentown Is selling less than
cost. As he says he le making money oven at his
low prices, we aro forced to accept the first conclu
sion, and wo think It but right to advise all our
people to go to Allentown to trade with Foster—at
least till other merchants conform to the new order
of things which this New York City Store has es
tablished there.—Carbon Democrat.
We wish to say to our readers that they need
have no fear of being deceived by the advertise
ments of Foster's New York Store at Allentown.
They will always sell as they advertise.—Stating
ton Noes.
We don't wish to flatter Mr. Foster. We have
no "axe to grind," for he advertises with us al
ready. But we cannot help saying that he Is ben
efiting every kind of business In Allentown. He
Is bringing the people to from every direction. His
store Is literally packed mush of the time.—Leh
Register.
On our own account we wish simply to say that every
artiste we sell we warrant to be as /cab, and in ninety
nine eases out of a hundred tower than U ran be
bought for elsewhere.
FOSTER'S
NEW YORK CITY STORE,
Opposite German Reforined Church, '
ALLENTOWN, PA.
21.2 NORTH fIiizrADI,TAFAET,
♦ NSW AND lILBOANT LOT OP
HAMBURG EDGINGS AND INSERTIN(B,
Together with a full supply of goods their tine Just re
calved at LaMAISTRE & ROSS.
Plain, Plaid and Striped ORGANDIES.
•roraKei..
Tarlatans. Tacked Nainsooks. and French Muslins.
Soft and hard finished Cambric. and /emends Boblnets,
Wash Blonds. illusions for Bridal Veil.. ,
Lace and Embroidered Curtains, andsCurtalis lace from
auction. and VERY CHEAP.
A very select and full assortment of Linen Handkerchiefs
for Ladies. Gents, Hines and Boys' wear, and at un.
tonally low noires,
Lame - of all kind., us Crochet, Valencia, English and
German Thread and Guipure. In real and imitation, Cluny,
Black and White Bilk laces.
Fine Linen and Lace Collars and Can to all si lee.
Pions Braid, Dalsy,_Dimlty, Haste and Coventry Ruf
fling., Empress arid Metternich Frilling., &c.
A large and most , se stock of Linen and Nottingham
Tidies. Toilet Mats in sets at 31 cents.
Loon Jaconet Edgings. h yards at M, "Z and 30 Cents.
Puffing. and Shined Muslin,.
Plain Linen, and Linen Shirt Fronts. Handsome and
cheap Embroidered Infant Waist.. ape 14-ly
j'for tbe Labios.
)
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._._—:•-iisiN
HOWE SEWING•MACIIINE
Always on band and for ego by
EDWARD DESHLER, AGENT,
NO, 01 EAST HAMILTON STREET,
aarzasycas:
yo emLab, Jr., Boot fl 4 Shoo Manufacturer.
Easton & &aka. .•
AlLllor, Schreiber ll Co.. MerchantTaßota.
$11011.4111 & Kelm,
r r to . b. ll *. Almgrfar i tg . Second National Bank.
J S. Dllllager, Attoraeytt-Law.
rhos. B. Metzger,
R. Clay Humanly. 'Callum:ma&
lAay-201y.
L IESADP GOODS.
The now style. are already received at
MRB. M. A. G. GULDIN'S
Ladlesigrimmlng Store. The fashions aro pretty. Ladies.
call anTlllOO them. Hoop Skirts are cheaper than in cheap
tim mar ea—Misprings, well made, OD; d) springs at SI 70.
•
21-tf
LADIES' DRESS TRIMMINGS
AND
PAPER PATTERNS
J. G. MAXWELL
IMPORTER. AND MANUFACTURER,
SOUTH EAST Comet ELEVENTH and CHESTNUT Ste
PIIILADELPITIA
Offers the balance of Ills stock of the best makes of Cop.
sets al the following very low prices: Genuine Werly
Corsets, $9; regularprlce, $5 and VI. Flue Preach Snapped
Corsets, $1; regular price, Pandit,. Fine French Gray
Snapped Corsets, 754,1 regular price, $3.
Ho also calls attention to Ms stock of novelties in
LADIES' DRESS AND COAT TRIMMINGS.
Comprising everything new and desirable In that Tins
lathe
PATTERN DEPAILTIXBAT
will be found a full usortment of elegintly trimmed PA
PER PATTERNS, every ono of catch le new, for Ladles,
Mows, and Children'. Garments, of every description
for nide, Trimmed or Plain, singly or to sots, Wholesale
and Retail. Pattern* sent by Mall or Express to any part
of (ha tint tali:Estes.
An easy system of Dress Cutting taught, and Ghetto for
sale. ,
Small fancy orders and Pinking and °offering executed
at a few hours' notice.
Customers gain one or two prate over those of our
other establishment. In better quality or lower prices, by
dealing at the
MOUTH BART Comer
ELEVEN= andOIIRSTBRT -
Ayr Alain
GEORGE WENNER,
YLOUK. GRAIN AND PRODUCE
COMMISSION &, SHIPPING MERCHANT
. No. 21. South Water St.. Chicago, in.
Atir Particular attention given to BJIIIIOIIII shipments.
REFERENCES:
O ' W B a °It&1° " C;;Vi' z°Dlluslhn3bu&latn,d'NtLC,t V/erlVelA
Cuuterrnton R ook; Bounei: ro.,eßarir Co., 3 M
Raw akg Bushorg&B ukes.
county. Pa. Jowl. liethley, Bweetland Contra. lowa.
aRE26-17
ALLENTOWN, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 9, 1869.
DORA'S TRIAL
"I do wish," said Mrs. Prudence Hall,
holding her doming-needle In mid air for a
moment over the coarse blue sock she was
mending—" I do wish you could see your way
clear to marrying Seth Hallett. Ho wants you
the worst kind, and he'd be such a good pro
vider."
"But I don't like him well enough, Prudy,
and I want something besides meat and drink
and two calico dresses a year."
Mrs. Prudence Han had sprained her ankle,
and was forced, sorely against her will, to sit,
day after day, in an upper chamber, with a
terrible consciousness that every thing about
the farm was relapsing Into "chaos and old
night", for want of her oversight.
Her pretty sister Dora had come to stay
with her, but she was "only a child, you
know*"
" There arc two kinds of love in this world,"
said Mrs. Ilan, after a pause, in which she had
been taking council with herself whether Dora
were old enough to be talked to on such mat
ters at all, and it flashed upon her that " the
child" was nearly twenty years old. "Per
haps you like Seth well enough to marry him,
only you don't know it."
" Tell me about the two kinds,"' said
Do'ra, innocently ; "I thought love was love
the world over."
"I have never known but one kind, I think,
Dora, When I married David ho was the
most well-to-do young man in these parts, and
we never had a quarrel while he'livcd. He
was a good, practical sort of man, and never
asked me to do any thing unreasonable."
"What if he had ?" asked Dora.
" Well, I guess I should have argued him
out of it. But there is a kind of love that will
draw women through fire and water. It
makes them throw themselves away . on poor,
shiftless men that will never provide for them
nor their children, and they know it as well
as any body else does. It is the greatest
wonder to me why such a feeling should ever
have been created." • And Mrs. Prudence
gave herself up to one rare moment of abstrac
tion.
Dora had bent low over her orli to hide
her roguish smiles at her sistePs y *discourse;
but she fixed her deep gray eyes on Prudence
at this point, not smiling, but simply earnest.
"Such love brings happiness sometimes, I
suppose," said Dora.
"Next to never," said Prudence, recover
ing her wonted decision with a jerk. "We
ain't made to be happy, and any thing that's
too good always leaves a bad taste in the
mouth. Comfort is a bird in the hand, and
you don't gain any thing by letting it fly •on
the chance of happiness."
"Did you ever know any ono about here,
Prudence, that threw herself away for love ?
It seems to me they won't look at a man un
less he has a hodse and farm ready for them."
"That's where they are right," said Pru
dence. " You are rather given to high-tlyin'
notions, and it's time you found out that bread
don't grow ready buttered. Yes, I did know
one girl about my age, who was pretty, and
smart, and had no end of chances to,get mar
he never would own to it), and she would
have that shiftless critter, Joe Raymond, who
never could make one hand wash the other.
Even when she was a-dying she pretended
that she had been happy, and wouldn't . have
done no other way if she had it to do over
again.".
" Was she our Joo's mother ?" said Dora,
quickly.
"Yea, to be sure ; and when she died we
took him to bring up, and work on the farm.
He's more than paid his way, but he's a roll
ing stone like his father, and won't never come
to anything. I forgot to tell you—he's going
to-morrow."
" Going to-morrow I" said Dora, with a
great start ; " I thought his time wasn't out
for another month ?"
" Well, it ain't out rightly till the day he's
twenty-one, but he was in such a hurry to be
off that I gave him the last month."
Then silence fell upon them. These two
women had the same father and mother,
though a score of years lay between them.
Prudence hathbeen born in the early married
life of her parents, when they were struggling
with a hard-fisted New England farm, and
there was work for even baby hands.
The lines of duty and patience were deep
graved in her rugged face, which yet beamed
with a kindly common sense. But Dora had
come to her mother late in life, as an old tree
sometimes blossoms into loveliness atter every
one has forgotten it. •llar little feet had
walked in easy paths, and Prudence yearned
over her like a mother.
She sat now by the open fire, bending her
graceful head over some delicate work that
Prudence would never have found time for;
her red dress and the flickering firelight made
her a picture too lovely for that dull room.
'"Prudence," she said, suddenly, "as this
is Joe's last night, I think I'll go down and
say good-by to him."
"You might call him up here."
"No ; I think I will go myself."
"I believe I haven't ever told you, Dora,
how much you pleased me by giving up that
childish way of going on with him that you
used to have. It did very well for you to be
fond of each other when you were children,
but of course it is out of the question now."
It might have been the red dress and the
firelight that brought a vivid flush to Dora's
cheek as she listened and turned away.
She ran lightly down stairs and opened the
door of the great farm-kitchen.
A young man sat by the dull fire, looking
into it as one looks into the eyes of an enemy
before the fight; an overgrown farmer-boy
in homemade clothes, with nothing about
him to fall in love with, least of all for the
brilliant little figure that waited for him to look
up ; but he was to Intend on his own thoughts.
She went swiftly across the room, and taking
his head between her soft hands, turned his
face up to hers.
" , Joe, bad boy, were you going away with
out letting me know 1"
The hard lines on his face softened and
brightened under her gaze till ono would not
have known him for the same man.
" I thought I should not see you to-night,"
he said.
"You know better; you know I would
have crept through the keyhole for ono last
little minute with you."
He set her quietly on his knee, as if it wow;
her usual place.
' "How long will you wait for me, Dom?"
"Till you come back."
"If it were seven years, think how long it
would be."
"If you lovo me as you make believe," said
Dora,, "you would not go away at all, but
work hero till you could build a llttle house,
and then we would rough it together."
"No, little Dora, that isn't my kind of love;
my mother tried that, and she lived a slave's
life. I will go away somewhere—l don't care
where—and when I carT give you as good a
home as you have always had—"
"Dora! Dora I" called Prudence from up
stairs : "what on earth are you doing down
there f"
"I must go now, I must truly," said Dora,
as she felt herself locked in an embrace that
would not let her go. "If I live without you
for seven years I shall be a homely old maid,
and you will not thank me for waiting for
you."
He put her away then, and looked at her
Curiously, as if he had never thought of her
looks before. -
" Do you know what your name means ?"
ho said, earnestly. "I saw it in the paper
that Theodora means 'Gift of God,' and you
have been that to me. If I had never seen
you I should never have had a nption-fibove a
day's work and a night's sleep. (it isn't your
looks NI love, but you do look very pretty.
Perhaps it is the red dress."
"Thank you," said Dora,'" with a smile
trembling through tears.
" I will write when I have any luck," Bald
Joe, "and come home on New Year's Eve
when I do come; and If you wear this red
dress I shall know you have waited for me."
"I think I shall live to wear it whenever
you come home, if it be seven times seven
years, Joe, for women are very hard to kill."
With another long embrace they parted,
and Dora went up to her sister's room.
" What have you been doing all this time?"
said Prudence, severely.
" I was only giving Joe some good advice."
" Well, I hope he'll profit by It."
"So do I," said Dora, heartily. .
'Tls as easy to say seven years as ono; and
we read of Jacob's seven years' service for
Rachel, which seemed but as ono day for the
love that he bore her.
Rachel's feelings are not thought worthy to
bo mentioned in Holy Writ ; but If her love
was like Dora's, every day seemed seven
years. And hero, In a nut-shell, lies the dif
ference between man's love and woman's.
Jacob had the sheep to mind, and ho did
mind them uncommonly well; Joe went to
seek his fortune in new scenes, and only
thought of Dora when ho had nothing else, to
do. The poet thought ho bad set a hard task
to men when he said :
"Learn to labor and to watt ;"
but it is immeasurably harder to be idle and
wait.
Till her lover went away, Dora had never
cared to ask herself whether she were a child
or a woman. Sunshine had been plenty with
her, and she had easily sugared and glided
the plain things that farm-life offered to her.
Before the first year came to an end she felt
that she should soon arrive at a patriarchal
ago, if she did not do something to kill the
time, which died so hard on her hands.
"Teach school I I guess not," said her
father, when she first broached her plan to
him. "You ain't a-starvin' yet, and if you
want some new furbelows you just say so, and
not come at it slanting-ways like that."
" I don't want any thing, father, but there
is ` WAVY ?Aria o'business.
Cant' you make sheets and pillow-cases, and
get ready to be 'married ? Who knows but
somebody'll ask ye one of these days 1"
"I'd rather teach school, father."
" Wa'al, wa'al, folks can't always have
their 'ldlers' in this world. I ain't wil
lie, and that's the end on't."
But this was not "the end on't," and Dora
easily obtained a school. She developed a
governing talent which charmed the commit
teemen, and the congenial labor in the com
pany of little children took her out of herself,
and infused new life into her hope deferhd.
Every week she walked to the post-office,
three miles away, to ask for a letter, going in
with a bright flush in either cheek, and com
ing out pale and dull-eyed after the stab of
disappointment.
I wonder that people in the country are so
anxious to be postmasters; if they only knew
it, they aro actors in more tragedies than any
member of a theatrical stock-company. Much
seale l d happiness passes through their hands,
but they have to refuse many a "Mariana in
the Mottled Grange"—weary women, who
reach a hand out of their dull lives for a letter
and draw it back empty.
It was far into the second year when Joe's
first letter came. It was surely a fanciful and
foolish thing. for a schoolmistress to do, that
Dora carried it to her own little room and put
on the dress that Joe liked so well before she
read Joe's letter. She had not read it in the
woods lest a bird should look over her shoulder
and carry the news.
Joe was working in the mines in Colorado.
His luck had not yet come, in nuggets at least,
but hard work and sober living were slowly
giving him an advantage over the other miners.
He was never so well, and ho loved her better
than all the world.
Dora lived upon this letter for many weeks,
and she set " Colorado" for a copy so often to
her scholors that they will write that word
better than any other to their dying day.
Letters came oftener as years drew on ;
sometimes Joo was up in the world, sometimes
down; once his carefully hoarded gold was
stolen from him, and ho had to begin all over
again ; but this was nothing to a long illness,
in which a friend wrote to Dora so soon as Joe
was out of danger. Then Dora envied the
doves their wings.
New-Year's Day was the hardest of all the
year. She could not help a strong pressure of
excitement when she put on the red dress,
which grow more and more old-fashioned, and
watched the sun go down on the road which
Joe must travel when he should come home.
The next morning she fitted her shoulders
sadly to the burden of another year.
One young farmer after another found his
way to the old' farm-house on Sunday even
ings, and Dora pushed them down an inclined
plane of discouragement so gently that they
scarcely knew whether they had really courted
her or not, and slid easily into the foils of
more willing maidens, with no hard feelings
toward Dora. It was not the least of her
trials to meet the entreaties of her mother and
the rough arguments of her father when ono
or two more persistent suitors would take no
thing less than no for their answer.
To be an old maid in the country is justly
regarded as a fate worthy of pity ; In the city,
with plenty of company and amusement, it
has come to be almost an even question whether
a woman bath not chosen the better part of
life in remaining singly blessed.
Dora could give no reason for repeated re
fusals to marry, only she loved no ono well
enough—a reason which would be all-sufficient
if parents were immortally young, but it loses
weight after sixty.
As the seventh year drew to an end Dora's
heart beat light within her. Joo had men
tioned seven years as ho meant to come
home then, at any rate. She wore out the
first day of the "glad now year" with busy
cares, till late in the afternoon, when an old
man, spent with much walking, stopped to
rest himself in the farm-house kitchen. Prit
denco bestirred herself to give him a hearty
luncheon, and when ho was warmed and fed
ho began to talk of his travels. Ile had been
to seek his fortune all over the West, mid never
finding it, had come back to die at home. lie
mentioned Colorado and Denver, and when
Dora found herself alone with him for a mo
ment she said :
"Did you over see Joseph Raymond in
Denver ?"
"Joo Raymond ? Oh, yea I knew him well
—lived with him nigh on to a month. llis
wife was a real good cook—couldn't he beat
nowhere."
"You say he was married ?"
"To be sure; a right smart feller, and
mighty fond of his wife. Women are scarce
out there."
Prudence came in, and the old man went
on Lis way, all unconscious of the great stone
he had cast into the still waters of• Dora's heart.
"what's the matter ?" said Prudence;
•
"you are as white as a sheet."
Dom's only answer was to dart out of the
house, and run as for her life down the orchard
path, by which she .could gain upon and over
tako this terrible old man. She might have
said, with holy ilerbert,"
"My thoughts arc all ft case of knives,
Wounding my heart
With scattered smart,"
only misery must have time to crystallize into
a memory before it takes the form of poetry.
Sho stood before the old man bareheaded and
breathless.
"How did the Joe Raymond look that you
ved with ?"
" I never said Joe Raymond," said the old
man, peevishly ; " I said Jim Raymond. They
had a boy named Joe, who—" But Dora was
off again before he could finish his sentence.
She ran through the orchard again, 'giving
thanks with all her heart that she had not suf
fered herself to be persuaded of Joe's faithless
ness on one liearing. Her feeling of grateful
awe, as if she had escaped from sudden death,
kept her from mourning much over the pass
ing away of this seventh anniversary of Joe's
departure, with no sign of his return.
His letters had wholly ceased, and there was
nothing left for Dora but to possess her soul
with patience. When another new year dawn
ed upon her she put On the old redAress, more
from habit than from any gleam of hope in her
heart, and did not care to look in her glass.
In the twilight she walked slowly down the
orchard path, and leaned on the gate Suit
opened into the road. Suddenly a man sprang
up from behind the wall.
" Theodora, my Gift of God !" he said ; and
Dora, though she recognized no mark of the
lover who had left her eight years before, felt
that no other knew that pass-word, and suf
fered herself to rest silently in his arms, in the
ineffable rest that only comes 'after long wait
ing.
When Joe and Dora went into the house,
and she looked at him by candle-light, her
heart almost misgavo her his luxuriant beard;
and the manly assurance of his manner, were
ina n Orli& barna seemed to rise up between
them while Prudence remained in the room
with her company manners, which sat more
awkwardly upon her than her Sunday gown.
When Dora walked softly by her sister's
room at a very late hour that night Prudence
was lying awake for her.
"Don't tell me,', she said, "that you've
been waiting for Joe Raymond all this time."
" Not if you don't want to hear it," said
Dora.
"Did he tell you whether he came home any
Letter off than he went away 4"
"I really haven't thought to ask him."
Prudence groaned, and turned her face to
the wall.
Joe waited only till the nest da3tto tell Irs.
Hall the story of his success, whielt, ooked
very moderate in his traveled eyes, but seemed
a noble fortune in her homely ideas.
"I never thought before," said Dora's
father at the wedding, "that a woman could
keep a secret, and I guess it ain't much more
common than snow in dog-days."
"How long would you have waited for me,"
whispered Joe.
"Forever," said Dora, solemnly. And
Mrs. Prudence, as she overheard the word,
thanked her stars that Dom's unpractical no
tions had not wrecked her at last on a poverty
stricken marriage.
THE DIFFICULTY ABOUT
THAT DOG.
BY JOHN QUILL
This was the cause of all the trouble
LOST.—On the sth instant, a small Terrier
Dog, with n brass collar upon his neck, and the
tip of his tail gone. Answers to the name of
" Jack." Five dollars reward will be given to the
person who returns him to JonN Qumr,, No. 85
Rickety Row. .
I inserted the above in the Deily FUNlay,
In the hope that I might recover the animal to
_which I was much attached. The Flipjlap
goes to press at SA. M. At half-past six I
was awakened by a pull at my door-bell. I
got out of bed and opened the window. As I
looked out I saw a man standing in my front
yard with a mongrel dog tied to a rope. lie
gazed up and observed :
• " Hello I are you the fellow who lost a
dorg ?" .
'" Yes, I am."
"Well, then, I've fetched him," said the
man.
I then explained to this wretched human
being that my dog was a terrier, while this
looked more like a log of wood with half the
bark off and propped up on four sticks, than a
dos of any kind. •
" Well, ain't you a going to take him 4"
"I wouldn't have him as a gift. And I
want you to move off now, or I'll call the
pOlice."
" Now, I guess you think you are smart;
don't you Y I'd bust you over the Jaw for live
cents, I would. You don't know a good dorg
when you see him, you don't," and he went
out, after ripping the palings off the fence.
In about a half hour there was another ring
at the bell. I went down. There was a man
with six dogs of a variety of breeds.
" Wh-wh-which of 'era's him, b-b-boss,"
said this fellow, for he stuttered as if he would
strangle on a small syllable. .
" Neither of them."
" Y-you said hails n-na-name was J-Jack,
d-didn't you
"Yes, that'll it."'
" W-w ell then, wh.wh-what d'yo call Mat?"
says hei as ho song out " Jack," and the
whole six dogs looked, up' and waJgcd their
tails like a lot of spavined oxen In fly time.
"Why, I call it confounded nonsense to ex
.
pect me to take the whole six dogs because
they're named Jack. I don't want to. start a
sausage mill, you understand.. meat
isn't in my line."
"W
-w-well, ain't you goin' to take him ?"
"Certainly not, do you suppose I am a gib
bering idiot 4"
• " W-w-w-well, you- sba-shan't have him
now, if you want him. I w-w-wouldn't trust
decent d-dog with a m-m-man like you, any
way."
And the eix canines felt into line and trotted
down the street after him.
I had not got fairly into the house, before
there was another ring. Seedy-looking man
with a semi-decayed yellow dog. His ribs
stuck out so, that he looked as if he had gorged
hiniself with a spiral spring.
" You advertised for a dog, I believe..
Well, I caught him around hero in the alley,
after a desperate struggle. Fine dog, sir."
• " Well, I don't think he is. He looks to me
as if he wasn't well. He is too etheral for
this world, young man, depend upon it."
"ph, not at all, sir. Only shedding his coat,
sir ; all good dogs do it at this time of year.
See that, sir," said this seedy Caucasian, hold
ing the dog by the cuff of the neck. "See
how he yelps ; that's a sign of pluck ; that
dog would tight a million wild cats, he would,
and lick 'em too, sir."
".Get out I" I exclaimed and the dog put
his tail between his legs and ran for the gate.
"See that, sir ? see that ?" said the man, as
lie seized him, " that's a sign he's well trained;
no raw dog behaves like that, I want you to
know. Now, s'pose you fork over the five."
"Not Juuch I I don't....want him my friend.
" You won't do it? 'Nell, then, take him
for seventy-Aim Say no more about
it. Ile's a valuable animal You'll never get
another such a chance."
"I tell you I won't have him."
" Nell, don't then," said the man, as ho
kicked the animal over on my flower pots and
broke three of them, while the brute rushed
Madly down the middle of the street.
Just then a big ruffian in a slouch hat came
up with a bull dog, sprung in the knees and
lamenting the entire loss aids tail. When
the ruffian spoke to him be wagged the whole
of the last half of him. •
'• I've brought that they l dog," was the ob
servation made by the roll tm, "and I'll tin
ger them there stamps, I reckon."
" My friend," said I, "that isnot my dog."
" Yes, it Is though."
"But it ie not."
" Don't I tell you it is ? Didn't you say
the tip of his tail was gone ? Well, jest look
at lain, will you?"
" Well, I won't have him, anyhow."
" You want to cheat me, do you ? I'll fix
you. S-sick him Bull !" said the outrageous
ruffian, ns the dog flew at me, giving me bare
ly time to get Inside and shut the door on his
frontispiece. I guess I squeezed the nose off
of that dlig. But the man cursed toe for about
Live minutes, and then flung a brick at the
door and went away.
In less than twenty minutes another ring.
Small pock-marked man in a red shirt,
,this
time. Had a speckled dog that looked, as if
he had been out without an umbrella when it
was raining ink. Says this victim of the
small-pox You know that dog you adver
-" 0 pshaw I" said I, " you know that Isn't
my dog."
" Your name's Quill, ain't it?"
"It is," said I.
" Well, then, this here is the dog. De's
the best ratter you ever seen. Slings them
around like he was amusin' himself, he does,
and—"
" But he is not my dog."
"And he is a bully watch dog. Look at
Look at him now—hes watching now I
Why, he'll sit there and watch and watch,
until he goes stone blind, he will. He'll watch
all night if you only let hint. I guess I'll jest
chain him up while you go in and get the • ."
"No you needn't," said I. "Pll blow hi ,
brains out if youdon't take him away."
" Well, say, stranger, I'm a little strapped
to-day ; jest lend me five on him this morn
ing, will you ? I'll pay you to-morrow."
"See here, now, you just get out of here,
or I'll take the hide off of you," I said, for I
began to get excited, you know.
Aw I you ain't worth a cent, you actually
ain't," said the pock-marked man, as he walk
ed off, after clipping the dog over the bead
with one of my fence palings, and then put
ting his fingers up to his nose.
Not a minute after, up conies a man with a
mastiff as big as a small horse.
"Say, boss, I want that five," was all he
remarked, by way of introducing the . subject.
"Well, you can't get it, and if you don't
leave I'll call the police," I exclaimed in de
spair.
"Watch him, Zip l" said the man, instantly,
and the dog flew at me, threw me down, and.
bit a slice of muscle out of my leg, and dis
figured my nose for life. Then the assassin
who owned him called hini off and went away
laughing.
I didn't answer any more rings that day,
but shout four o'clock in the,afternoon Ilooked
out of the second story window, and the yard
was full of men with kinds of dogs. Black
doge, white dogs, yellow dogs, variegated
dogs, flea-bitten dogs, dogs with tails, dogs
without tails, rat terriers, bull pups, pgages,
fox hounds, spaniels; Newfoundlands,trxed
breeds, pointers, setters and a multitude of
other varieties, all growling, yelping, barking,
snapping and jumping about until there wasn't
a flower pot left in the &tee, and the noise
was worse than a menagerie at meal time.
I haven't got my clog yet. I don't want
him either. I don't care If I never see another
dog between this and the silent grave. I only
wish that all the dogs from here to - Russian.
Amelia were collected Into a Convention,
and had hold of that man with the mastiff,
that they might.gnaw ou him until he badn't
a morsel of meat left on his skeleton. That is
all I want In the dog line inthis world.
—Smith courted Miss Brown, and so (lid
Jones,. She married Jones despite Smith's
groans. With pain in his breast, Smith went
out West. This was in '4B. (Now, don't
forget the date.) In less than two years. he
had dried his tears, but refusing to mingle he .
remained single. In 1602 he concluded to go
down and visit the old neighbors In his native
toWn. As he approached he met a damsel
aged fifteen. There was something her
features he remembered to have seen. "It
must be her daughter," be hastened to con
clude, so lie ventured to accost her (not think
ing to he rude.) This dialogue-ensued: 6
Smith (wh9 lisped a little)—A'in't your
name Sonesth 2" •
Miss Jones—" Yes, sir."
Smith—"A'n't you Mrs. Tham Jonesth
daughter 1 0 .7
Miss Jones—" Yes, sir."
Smith —" Well, Miss Joneeth, I came
piaguey near being your father wonth."
—An Irishman complained to his physician
that he stuffed him so much with drugs that
ho was sick a long time after he got well.
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NO. 23
" THE FARMERS CLUB."
WEBTMORELMID, Oneida Co., N. Y
May 1869.
Enron : I am deep in agriculture at pres
ent, and charmed with everything '0 it. Tho
daily labors of my hired man are giving a vi
gor to my frame that I have not known for
years, bronzing my face with the ruddy
hue of healthful toil. After observing him
from my window for a couple of hours as ho
follows the plow it is astonishing what an ap
petite I have for my dinner.
I attended a meeting of the "Farmer'■
Club" the other day and was much interested
hi the suggestions offered. There is no forma
lity about these meetings, every ono being at
liberty to present such facts and suggestions
as he pleases.
This being the planter's season, discussion
naturally laid in that direction. How to keep
worms away from corn was a promonent
theme, 11. 0. Handle, of Hansom, strongly
recomended that the seed corn be soaked In
vermifuge, which is said to be a good thing to
drive away worms.
Burnel O'Corn, Squaw Hush, said ho usu
ally stuffed the worms with worm lozengers
(of which they are passionately fond) while
the corn •is growing. Common gratitude
keeps them from eating the corn after that.
Tho grub-worm was taken up and discuss
ed. Some one said ashes would fix him.
Luke Coon, of Westmoreland, said the grubs
on his farm like ashes—got fat on them. Ho
said he put ashes on every bill of his corn in
a . ten-acre field of it. The grubs went at the
ashes and devoured it nearly as fast as they
could put it on. That night ho was, awaken
ed by a loud knocking at the door and great
hallooing. It was the grubs. They had come
up to the house in a body demanding more
ashes.
farmer wanted to knOw the best protcc
tection against crows. Scarecrows aro of no
avail now, he said. Since fashion prescribes
such outrageous attire for men and women,
scarecrows aro to common. One man said ho
kept carrion in a lot adjoining his cornfield—
for where the canon is, there will the . crows
be, also, The only trouble is, It makes the
neighbors carry on about It.
There was considerable discussion as to the
best time to put in corn. Some thought it
should be put in late at night ; but it was final
ly settled that eleven o'clock in the forenoon
was the proper Mac, It being about that hour
the club abjourned to a grocery across the
street and put in their " corn." ,
Spring gardening was .discussed at some
length. A farmer front Utica thought it would
be better to do spring gardening in the fall,
when they weren't drove so.
The President of the club was requested to
give his views about the proper way to make
beds. He said it was something that he didn't
worry about ; ho had the chaMbermaid make
the beds.
The various kinds of patent rakei were also
commented upon. Farmer. Bronson, who
had lost an arm ih the service, said ho rake
his garden with "grape and cannister." Far
acres wofild — rriiire — ret *II •
Somebody recommended mandrakes:
A communication was read designed' to
show that a Wecier & Wilson sewing machine
was the best thing to "sow" wheat with A.
hem.
The diseases of cattle was a subject of dis
cussion. For horn with alles it was recomen
ded to fill the horn with gun-powder and
touch it off. Farmer Mid], of Whilshoro, said
he used it for that complaint in his herd, and
he hadn't heard any complaint since. He said
he had rather have a born (of) ale himself than
see his cattle suffer with it.
Iron Ayes said to be an excellent tonic for
ows. Dairymen use a great deal of it when
they have chain pumps.
In trimming trees it was decided best to con
sult an experienced dressmaker. Dressma
kers are posted in the spring styles of trim
'ming. Some peoplewouldn't know any bet
ter than to put lilac trimming on cherry trees,
or cherry trimming on lilacbushes. SO am I,
too.
Mr. Dankusman, of Dairdville, said ho
wasn't much at setting out trees, but he could
set out any fellow in Onedia county sitting up
with the girls. Motion adopted.
An honest old farmer from Vernon, Mr.
Jordan, complained that the farming commu
nity were constantly being gulled by worth
less patent rights. Ile has got his house full of
patent churns, and his barn full of patent
forks, all of them worthless. A man sold him a
churn the other day, wa.ranted to bring but
ter
. (from any distance) In thirty seconds. Ho
worked at it three days and nights, S and then
had to have his butter brought from Uticaon
the stage.
Farmer O'Spatten, of Iramptod, made simi
lar complaint. Ile said he was induced, by
promise of Marriage, to buy a patent light
ning rod that was said to mow, husk corn,
chop wood, fodder the cattle, awl draw cider
—all at the same time. Ile brought it hoUte
but it hadn't done anything but sit around the
house and read novels ever since.
Clarkpottcr, of Marry, had bought a corn
shellcr, warranted to take of corns and bun
ions. It took them off about hall a mile and
then brought them back again, corn-shel-latlon
in that.
Club adjourned to meet again next week at
two o'clock. FAT CONTRIBUTOR.
—Can a bare assertion be called a naked
EMI
—How to prevent sea•sickness—keep ,on
shore.
—Dyers are as liable to err as any body.
They arc but hue-men.
—lt has been said that fowls are the most
economical things farmers can keep, because
for every grain they give a peck.
—A. person passing through a certain town,
and observing upon a door the name of Has.
well, remarked that the gentleman's name
would be as well withdut the "II."
—A traveler inquired of a guide the reason
why "echo" was always spoken of as "she,"
and was informed that it was because it always
had the last word.
—A speculator in Paris proposes to start a
mammoth printing office to print all the daily
papers in tho city. Ile says by doing so the
dailies would reduce their expenses 10 per
cent.
—A richly-dressed lady stopped a boy trudg
ing along with a basket, and asked : "My 14-
tie boy, have you got religion?" "No,
ma'am," said tho Innocent, "I've got pota
toes."
—ln one of Cooper's novels occurs the fol
lowing passage: "Ho dismounted in front:of
the house and tied his horse to a large locust."
A French author, in translating this prising°,
renders it thus: "Ile descended from his
horse hi front of the chateau and tied him to, a
large grasshopper."
•
ITPBTAIBI3,
ALLENTOWN; PA