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One of the celebrated Foster Brothers, the great dry goods merchants of Now York City, Is coming to do business among us. They promise ns a New 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. Wo welcome them among us, and promise them our hearty thanks if they will persist In the war they have declared upon high prices.—Allentown Democrat. Foster had a big rush at his opening on Monday. The whole population seemed to be there to secure the greatest bargains ever before offered. Enter prise Is stamped everywhere and ho Is sure to suc ceed, though he sells goods at smaller profits than they do anywhere this side of New York. The rush still continued yesterday, continues to-day, and will ever continue so long as 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. Wo 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 FWe denebete. ' "I saved seventeen dollars on ono Poplin dress I bought at Foster's the other day." So WO heard a lady saying recently.—Lehigh Patriot. Henry Ward Beecher once told a gentleman to "follow the crowd" if he desired to find his 'way to his (Beecher's) church. The way to Foster's New York Store is found In the same way.—lnde pendent Republican. YOBTER.—Foster has made good his promises. He has most decidedly "revolutionized the Allen town Dry Goods trade." Wo are just finding out what exorbitant prices we have been paying for dry goods in Allentown. Foster actually sells many goods for half the price we have been paying for them. The crowd at his store is as great us over, and of all who have been there to trade we have yet to hear of a single person in any way disappointed with his purchase.—Allentown Demo crag. We hear that there has been a tremendous ex citement in the Dry Goods trade In Allentown, during the past week. Foster's New York City Store, just opened, has been fairly packed wilt people. They are selling goods at about half the prices othbr merchants charge for them. One of two things is true ; either our merchants In this locality have been charging us outrageous profits, or else Foster, at Allentown is selling lees than cost. As he says be le making money even at his low prices, we are forced to accept the first conclu sion, and we 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 Now 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 Now York Store at Allentown. They will always sell as they advertise.—Mating ion News. We don't wish to flutter Mr. Foster. We have no "axe to grind," for he advertises with us al ready. But we cannot help saying that hots ben efiting every kind of business in Allentown. He Is bringing tho people in from every direction. RIB store is literally packed much of the time.—Lehigh Register. On our own account we wish simply to say that every article ;resell we warrant to be as tow, and in ninety nine cases out of a hundred lower than it can be bough; for elsewhere. „ FOSTER'S NEW YORK CITY STORE, Opposite Oermau Reformed Church, 212 NORTH MILISETAUIET, ♦ NEW AND NLEDANT LOT OF HAMBURG EDGINGS AND INSERTING% Together with a full earl/ of goods In their 800 Bat re carted at LRMAIsTRF.& 081. Pl!tp and litntie SWISS MULL. Tarlatans, Tacked Naineooks, and French Malin.. Soft and hard finished Cambric* and Jaconets, Bobinots, Wash Blood.. illusions for Bridal Vella. Lace and Embroidered Curtain., and Curtain lace from auction. and VERY CHEAP. for v e.z:v . gc,:tt. N Llg rt ntrvo r yt ll gg,..... d o k d ar . e ng tizt:':r.iniza.." Crochet, Valencia English and German Thread and CI niunrejuroal and !madden, Cinny, Black and White Bilk Jo. Fine Linen and Lace Collar, and Cuffs In all etylos, Piqua Braid, Daley . .. Dimity. Dingle and Coventry Eta dings, Empress and Metternich Frillinge, &e. A large and moat noted stook of Linen and NottlngLain Tes, Toilet Mats, In eels, at 91 cents. Loon Jaconet Edging., 1 yards at 21, 21 and 30 cents. Pufflngs and Shined Muslin., Pinto on, and Linen Hhirt Fronts. Handsome and cheap Embroidered Infant Waists. npr 14-ly ffor tbe 3Labies. ) ..4. ------- - 4 ...."' • A', a' . .2 - .--..-- '. • 1 4 \ fi• i l i , k• - •• - t. - _ , .-_,• 1 , 3 i -.- 7? ', • HOWE SEWING MACHINE Aliraya on hand and Awash. by EDWARD DESHLER, AGENT, NO. Al BAST HAMILTON STREET, aarnaaacaei Henry Lob. Jr., Boot and Shoo Hanufffturer. John Farr, Seaton & Dante). " • Hiller, &brother Co.. MercbantTallors. plunds & Koim. Wru. K. Ainey, President Second National Bank, Dr. B. F. Jacoby. Deutiot. J. R. Dlllincer, Attorney.at.Law. rh.. B. Metzger; . • R. Clay Hamersly, •• Hay-261y. LADIES' GOODS. The noleityles are already received at MRS. M. A. 0. aULDIN'S Ladle.' Trim*log Store. The (emblem, aro pretty. Ladlce, call and SOCIAiIeI3I. Hoop Balch, are cheaper than In cheap limes-90 reap, well made, ♦l le; Wearing+ at el 73. sear 2.1.4 • LADIES' DRESS TRIMMINGS PAPER PATTERNS. L G. MAXWELL IMPORTER AND MANUFACTURER, BOOTH EAST Cas t or ELEVENTH end CHESTNUT St... I= a Offers the balance of hte Mock of the boat makes of Cor- Nets at the following very low prices: Clonutne Wetly Corsets, 19; regular price, gland IA Floe French Snapped Corsets, $1 t regular price, g3ood St Pica French Oral' Snapped Corsets, 750. i regular price, V. He idea calls attention to LI. stook of novelties la LADIES' DRESS AND COAT TRIMMINGS. Cowartolng ovorythlng now and dostrablo In that lino. tithe • PATTERN DEPARTMENT will be found • full assortment of elegantly trimmed PA PER PAITERNI3, ovary one of which Is new, for Ladles, Rises, and Children's Garments, of every description g for sale:Trimmed or Plain, singly or la sets, Wholesale and Reet{ai~l. li Pallente cent by Mall or Express to any Part of the United Slate.. . . An easy system of Dress Calling taught, and Chaste for sale. Small Canes order. and Pinking and Qolferint aneeuted at a few hours' notice. Customers gain one or two pronto over those of any other establishment, In better quality or lower price., by dealing at the . • HOUTH NAST Corner ILEVENTII and 0111.13TNUT Sts. • aprYlNStrt GEORGE ORALfAND PRODUCE COMMISSION & SHIPPING MERCHANT No. Ita South Water Gt.. Chicago. 111. ggirParitenlar attention given to Eastern 043:lents • REP Chi HIIIINCES: 0. W. Batts &Bro., cago; /Mager Bro., Allentown. Pa. g Ca t . Erdman. Centre Valler i3 Pa. t Wm. Hackett. Caabler Radon (Pl.llan g Bonne Dusenbury C0..101 Weat.st., New Tarim Ilnahotor at ro. i .toli g nU t at i VeTtN, I &liar ' I,a=l . comity,Ps.; Joseph Holnlesr. Eiseelland Cedre. lowa. sag In•IY • WHAT THE ENGINES SAID. A writer, describing the meeting of the two first locomotives on the Pacific Railway, said "the two locomotives moved up until their pilots rubbed together, symbolic of the friend ly salute of their respective owners," but lie did not hear, or did not describe WHAT TILE ENGINES. SAID! What was It the engine Bald, Pilots touching—head to head Faclog on the single track, Halt a world behind each back This la what the engines said, Unreported and unread! With a prefatory screech, In a florid Western speech, Said the Engine from the WEST " I am from Sierra's crest ; And, If altitude's a test, Why, I reckon, Its confessed, That I've done my level beet." Said the Engine from the EAST "They who Work best talk the least, 'Spose you-whistle down youbbrakes ; What you've done is no great shakes; Pretty fair—but let our meeting Be a different t Ind of greeting, Let these folks, with champange stuffing, Not their Engines, do the miffing. Listen ! Where Atbintie beats Shores of snow and Summer heats ; Where the Indian Autumn skies Paint the words with wampum dyes Seeing all he looked upon— Blessing all that he lms blest— Nursing in my Iron breast All his vivifying heat, All his clouds about my crest ; And before my flying feet, Every shadow must retreat. Said the Western Engine, "Pew !" And a long, low whistle blew. " Come now, really that's the oddest Tall for one so very modest— • Yon brag of your East! you do ! Why /bring the East to you! All the Orient—all Cathay— Find through me the shortest way. Anahe sun you follow• here, Rises In my hemisphere. Really—if one must be nide— Length, my friend, abut longitude." Bald the Union: "'Don't reflect, or I'll run over more Director." Said the Central: "I'm Pacific, But when riled, I'm quite terrific. Yet to-day, we shall not quarrel Just to show these folks this moral, Dow two Engines—in their vision— Once have met without collision." Thut is what the Engines said, Unreported and unread. Spoken slightly through the nose, With a whistle id the clone. MR. WHITING'S MISTAKE A. women in a calico dress, with a towe pinned over her hair, upon the upper balcon of a square stone house ; and a man stool brushing the dust and specks from his coat upon the balcony below. The woman was Bridget Geoakes, and the man was Paul Whit- Now it happened that just beyond the church, dolin a side street, was a little, low wing growing upon the body of a painted wooden house ; and hero lived ➢Liss Alma Die brow,n worthy maiden with frost-bitten curls who always wore a rustling black silk gown, a heavy gold chain and an eye glass. ALLENTOWN, PA Miss Disbrow's fatherhad been unfortunate enough to be a pioneer in this part of the lake country, so long ago as when the Governor's wife rode to church in a tip-cart drawn by oxen, and when the town was lighted with glow-worms instead of gas. But his daughter, Miss Alma, was fortunate enough to live so lately as when the most de- sirablo street of a flourishing commercial city ran directly through the heart of her father's swamp lands. And still later, when in token of her being unmarried, and an only daughter, she came into possession, by her father's will, of the principal part of his rich inheritance. • Upon that, turning her back upon all aspir ing adventurers, and shutting her eyes against her brother's longing boys and girls, she gave the best located lots of the whole for ft church and rectory,•and then, throwing out this mod est wing from the luihse of her youngest and least disliked brother, she settled herself down in it to sit and look all day at her bountiful gift. - But Miss Alma had eyes as sharp as a brass pin ; the better to see with, my dear ; so be side the high stone church she perceived a great many things. And upon this particular morning she sat in her Parker-rocker, rustling and rocking with her eye-glass in one hand and the morning paper in the other. On the leather cushion of an old arm-chair, by the sunniest window, sat her confidential friend, a black dog with a white face, Benjamin. This dog had a great deal more consideration, and many more privileges than her brother's childrbn ; and it was into his pointed cars Miss Disbrow, who had not another weakness in the world, (unless in the matter of a front tooth or so) bad the habit of dropping every thing she thought, or knew, o• guessed. And the dog Benjamin, as a man Benjamin might not have done, always listened without inter ruption, and never repeated a thing she said. "Benjamin," cried out Miss Disbrow, so suddenly that the dog jumped upon his feet, "as true as you are born, Mrs. Baby has only this moment come to help about clearing up after the church social: Well now, Igo say, if that is not real mean I Just come! When there she is boarding, with nothing under the stars to do, not even to make her own bed ; and poor, little Mrs. °reeling, with her Six children, and all her house-keeping cares, has been here hard at work fully half 'an hour. cannot stand such shirking; lazy ways—l de clare I can't I" Benjamin yawned and stretcheir and Miss Disbrow moved her chair nearer the window, and looking out at the clouded sky, the brown-touched trees, and the wet walk, she saw presently the figures upon the two piazzas of the square stone house at the corner. By that time the ladies were through with their work of clearing up the vestry, and had gone clattering home in their high-heeled boots, and scrub women and boys had done all their running out and in, and slopping about with pails of water, and the old white bearded sexton, in his round, steel-bowed glasses, that made him look like a gray owl, had locked the door, and gone to his day's work sawing wood, at one of the grand houses In the avenue. Bo Miss Disbrow had plenty of time to turn her observation and her eye-' glass towards her neighbor's balconies. To toll the plain truth, between you and me and Benjamin, Miss Disbrow had for some time felt that the Whiting family needed more 12=3111 ALLENTOWN, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 30, 1869 task being so hopeless, and Miss Disbrow went EMZI "But Bridges Geoakes—she is a reckless thing—l've long seen that and wondered Mrs. Whiting kept her so—she has been and left a pillow on the balcony railing. Went off and left it I Of course the wind took it, and so there it lies, ruffling, embroidery and all, right down in the gutter, liable to bei3tolen by every passer-by. Now, Benjamin, would you, or wouldn't you, go over and tell them?" Benjamin's face, about ono eye, was black, and the mat of the face being entirely white, this gave him a peculiar knowing expression when he cocked up that eye, as he bad a way of doing. And now he turned his black eye upon Miss Disbrow, with quite the appearance of winking it at her. Perhaps, indeed, he did. Anyhow, there was evidently some invisible freemasonry between them, for Miss Disbrow instantly responded, just as though he had spoken : " Well, then, 1 will, Benjamin. Why aro we put into this world together if not to help each other ?" said she, as with an air of virtu ous responsibility she threw a little maize col ored rigolette over her weather-beaten curls and a white breakfast shawl over her shoulders. Then' putting on her gloves; with' the dignity of a circumnavigator, she started across the street. One might fancy she would pick up the un fortunate pillow upon the way, but no—l hope she was above meddling with her neighbors' things I Certainly ! She walked impressively to the door and rang the bell, which was In staidly answered by Mr. Whiting himself, with a carpet-bag. in his hand, and his bat up on his head. " Going away, arc you?" said Miss Disbrow, diverted, for the time, from her original er rand by an opportunity of inserting the wedge of inquiry. "Ah ! Miss Disbrow Yes, lam going to Chicago, on a little business trip. Won't you come in?" "'Thank you, Mr. Whiting, not this morn ing. Does your wife accompany you?" "No, she doesn't. She is going to Cincin nati for a few days," replied. Mr. Whiting, who was guileless as a spring chicken, and not more of a mouthful for the maneuvering black fox, who had always found a great deal more flavor in anything she had first unearthed by skillful digging. "You had better conic in," continued he, cordially. "Mrs. Whiting Is busy packing, but she will be glad to see you." And the deluded man really believed so ; for, although he had lived in such close relation with Mrs. Whiting for five years, he was only a man, after all. But Miss Disbrow was a woman, and so she knew a great deal better than to be persuaded that a person is glad to see cullers when pack ing. "Oh, no indeed, Mr. Whiting I Thank you ; but I just ran over, in a neighborly way, to tell you of a little accident I happened to observe from my window. A pillow fell from the balustrade where your chambermaid very carelessly left it, and is now lying upon the sidewalk. I was fearful it might come to grief before any of the family might miss it. Good morning." And so speaking, Miss DisbroW limed and rustled away. "Benjamin," said she, mysteriously, when she reached her own rocking-chair again, "I cannot see why Mrs. Whiting takes the time to go to Cincinnati when her husband is away. It would be my choice not to leave the house alone with that flighty Bridget Oooakes. Or then, why not Mrs. Whiting go to-day, while her •husband is here to see her off? I can't understand it." And with this Miss Disbrow fell into a fit of musing, and mused so long and silently that Benjamin fell asleep and dreamed be knew where there was a woodchuck's hole, with the woodchuck in it. Meantime Mr. Whiting kissed his wife (probably), took his valise; and went on, hap pily unconscious of a cloud no bigger than a man's band already coming up in his domestic • sky. Ile thought of no Shadow darker titan the bank of heavy dampness hanging above his head in the heavens. And that very even ing those vaporous clouds, having sulked long enough over 'the wretched conditiOn of the muddy streets, made up their mind, and ex pressed it by coming down In an emphatic fall of snow, that glided front umbtellas and drifted against windows, like a slipping off of great white blankets. By day-dawn the streets and roofs and steeples were white as a millers hat, and. the air rang with the scraping of shovels and jingling of sleigh bells. "Of course Mrs. Whiting won't think of starting after a snow, with every prospect of the roads being blocked. Of course not; Ben jamin," said Miss Disbrow, seating herself to the occupation of looking upon the things of her neighbor with all the eyes of her own, and all the eyes of her glasses—watching them so intently that actually a pair of pigeons flew into the barmy of the church, and a pair of ragged boys peeped into the vestry windows without her, knowing it. But her watch was rewarded, for at precisely a quarter past eley en a close carriage carne up to Mrs. Whitings' door. "As sure as you are born, Benjamin, she Is going !" exclaimed Miss Disbrow, appa rently as violently astonished• as though she had not been looking all the morning for a sight of this very Carriage. 'And two trunks! What can the woman want of two trunks, just going down to Cincinnati for a few days?' she continued, appearing to suspect the trick of the Trojan horse. " Well, now, I can't see why she takes so much baggage. And as sure as you are made, Benjamin, she has new traveling suit throughout, hat and all. A suit of silver grey poplin, with muff and collar of Astrachan wool, and an Alaska hat. She looks as girlish as you please," added Miss Disbrow, bringing her opera glass, which always lay conveniently near the teapoy, to bear upon the small figure of her neighbor, whei' was turning back at the door for a last word to Bridget ; seeming, as she stood there, to the naked eye, as cheerful and innocent as a Burgundy rose.• But, alas, things are not' what they seem. "If that woman is ever dissected, I want to see her heart, Benjamin. I believe she has no more than , you could put on the polut of a needle. Ido so," resumed Miss Disbrow, putting down her glass as the carriage slowly. ploughed its way along the snowy street, and taking up the book mark she was embroider ing for the pulpit Bible. T 1 • shone, the pigeons whirred past 115'8, the school boys snow balled, screamed; and the cars rumbled ded and glided out from the. depot, lug around the long curve, out be city limits, and to away into the iomowhere of the wide world. And went little Mrs. Whiting, blithe as , and charming as a Tune morning. tough she looked so, what if, she was not simple hearted ,as a ou know Mrs. ;Whiting over hero had gone away, Aunt Alma ?" cried out her niece Moraretta, bursting into tho room that afternoon in her usual ahrubt way. " Certainly, niece. Take care, child I Don't upset that pot of primroses." Miss Disbrow always miffed a call from Moraretta, something as one would to see a calf taking his morning walk among one's berhenas. " Moraretta, a 'little more and you would have throw dovin the shado over my wax flowers? Did you want any thing ?" . " Why, no, Aunt Alma. I just come in ; that is all. But I was wondering who Mrs. Whiting went off with, and I thought perhaps you would know." "Why, did you see anybody with her? What do you mean ?" asked Miss Disbrow, suddenly so interested that she forgot to chide Moraretto for swinging a pair of scissors by their ribbon, to the imminent peril of Benja min's,eyes and of a plerglass. "Yes, I saw somebody. And so did Bella Mosier. We were coming through the depot on our way home from school like we' always do, when we saw Mrs. Whiting. I saw her and so did Bella; and just as we said, both together, 'There is Mrs. Whiting,' a gentle man came up and kissed her veryaffectionate ly, and she looked all in a flutter, and so did he; and then they took the cars for Cleve land." "For Cleveland ? Moraretta, are you sure?" exclaimed Miss Disbrow, in vestal horror. "Yes, ma'am, sure. That was what Bella and I thought so queer, for her trunks were marked Cincinnati ; we stood right by them and saw the cards. You may ask Bella if it wasn't so. There she is going"by this min ute. Bella I Bella, come in I" she cried, run ning to the window, tapping on it and nod ding and beckoning. Miss Disbrow's sense of outraged propriety was so much shocked by the scandal of Mora retta's story that she permitted this breach of decorum and Insult to the dignity of her win dows without a word, though the window itself shook all over under the mortification. But Bella came in, Moraretta in girlish life and hoydenism as one bramble bush is like another. And then, out of the mouth of two witnesses Miss Disbrow was forced to believe. "Dill you ever see the man before? How did he look, and how did he appear I" she asked. " Oh, ho was perfectly splendid, and he was dressed elegantly !" cried the enthusiastic school girls. " But I never saw hint before ; neither did Betts. I don't thilik he lives here; he came front the Cincinnati cars. You saw hint, didn't you, Retta?" said Bella Mosier. " Yes, of course I did. Andtitcn he look- . cd around as though he expected to see some body, till he saw Mrs. Whiting ; and she was just standing like she was waiting, wasn't she Bella?" there, Benjamin, what do you make of that?" said Miss piebrow, after the girls had chattered themselves out of the room and out of the house. Don't you recollect I sus pected all was not right when I saw those two immense trunks, and little Mrs. Whiting herself dressed up like a doll ? I do wish I knew what to think." . _ All daylong Miss Disbrow sat putting this and that together, until the opposite house grew fairly hideous under the shadow of evil; and all night long she lay awake upon the great old-fashioned mahogany bedstead, still putting this and that together. By day dawn the next morning, Miss Die, brow was looking out to see if it had fared with the grey mansion over night as with the cities of the plain. But no ; sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily ; and there it stood, massive and square, against the reddening eastern sky. And' at that very moment she saw Mr. Whiting, with the gen eral look of unkempt haggardness belonging a traveler just out of a sleeping car going In through the stately but dishonored doorway. " Benjamin I" cried Miss Disbrow, nervous ly, "he has come home I Perhaps she hiss left him a note ! Perhaps = 4lll! perhaps he is reading it now I Oh, Benjamin I Ought I to go over and tell him what we know ? Ought I 4" Benjamin did not reply, but he looked thoughtful, which was more satisfactory M the inquirer; and Isliss Disbrow sat down and rocked, with her face toward the church, as the Jews in exile turned their feces ton an Jeruualem " Benjamin," said she, presently, " I' will go. It is my duty. The next train to Cleve land leaves at seven-forty, and there ie not a moment." . So'she went. . Mr. Whiting answered her ring this morn ing as before, and though he looked a little surprised at the pntimely call, he seemed now- Ise agitated or under a cloud. "Mrs. Whiting has not returned ?" began the spinster. "No, ma'am. Ido not expect her before the last of the week, Is there anything can do for you, in her absence, 31iss Dis brow ?" returned the wronged husband. "Nothing, Mr. Whiting, nothing for me. Where did I understand you to say Mrs. Whiting had gone? Could it be Clareland "No, Cincinnati. She has gone to her sister's Mrs. Gaegon's ; Perhaps you know her ?" re plied the unconscious man, wondering to the tips of his boots why Miss Disbrow was there. "Another pillow gone over may be, or per- Imps she has seen Bridget giving cold pieces to a beggar at the back gate," mused he, lis tening with a hungry ear for the breakfast bell. But his wonder and musings were cut pain fully short. " Mr. Whiting,". said Miss Disbrow,. sol emnly, "I am afraid I have had news for you.: Your wife did not go to Cincinnati, as you suppose ; she went to Cleveland. And she did not go alone." Mr. Whiting stared helplessly at the speaker unable on that Instant to take in such dresdfill tidings. " What I say is true, Mr: Whiting. I have . it from parties who saw her go,, She has gone to Cleveland, and she did not gonlone," repeated Miss Disbrow, nodding so wisely she Might have been an own aunt of Solomon's: Mr. Whiting was as innocent as a cup of now milk, but he had asmany nerves as a 'WO man ; and if ho had not been born a man ho would certainly have been a blue-bottle fly; bumping about, restless and distracted. Therefore, as soon as he bad fairly compre 7 hended Miss Dlsbrow's disgraceful story, ho was nearly wild. • "He took it harder than I could , wish, Ben- jamin. Harder than I could" wish. Poor man I I don't know when I have pitied any body so before, and truly, Benjamin, I em afraid I shall have no appetite for my break fast ; and you know it is fishballs to-day, and I am more partial to fish-balls than anything else. It is to bad !soit is ! And Miss Disbrow 13 ighod, partly for her own loss, and partly for the loss of her neigh- " Yes, Benjamin. There ho goes. . Yes— going to find her; and when ho finds her— . what then? What then, I ask you, Benja- ME Benjamin did not know—he had no means of knowing—so ho did not tell. And after smelling at a bottle of camphor, Miss Disbrow went on : " It does sewn to me and always has, that if 31r. Whiting had not been a born idiot, ho might have known bet tor than to marry such a pretty bunch of lace and feathers.. But a man is always a fool about a woman until he marries her." Millie Miss Disbrow, full of wisdom and sympathy, talked thus behind her glasses and her window curtains, Mr. Whitingwent down :,Vie avenue to the depot, half-frantic with haste and horrible fancies, blaming himself miserably as ho went on his miserable way, for his blindness and carelessness, while a thousand things overlooked and forgotten heretofore, straightened themselves in the light of this shameful Once in the car, the train, at its swiftest, seemed to crawl like a sick caterpillar ; and, oh, how tediously often and long they stopped at every wood pile and hamlet of shanties Suddenly they stopped, not much of anywhere and never started again. " What is up now ?" cried out Mr. Whiting impatiently. • " Nothing is up. A bridge is down," an swered somebody, in such a provoking cool tone that Mr. Whiting felt like asking him to fight., " )Ve have to go around three miles in a sleigh, and take the train on the other side. Fine chance for a sleigh-ride," added the con tented soul, whose wife sat in the seat beside him, crocheting a very minute sacque. Sure enough I First an hour of ignomini- Ons waiting; then the tedioustrunsportation of five hundred men and women, and each of their five hundred trunks, over and back. A cycle of time to a man with a swarm of bees in his heart. + But "all things come round to him who wait," and at last they steamed off beyond the broken bridge, slower, though, than over, for the road was washed, and the train was heavy. Yet at last the ride ended also, although it was away through the night, and finally daybreak, and even broad morning, before the belated train reached Cleveland. It vas too early for the street, cars, and be ing °Mime, there were no coaches in waiting; so Mr. Whiting started at once to walk to the residence of his wife's father. , The day had broken, rough and windy as it always is in the beautiful Forest City ; and the clouded sky frowneil upon the miserable husband as well as upon the smoky-stained shops and sloppy sidewitlks. Even Commo dore Perry' upon his pedestal Lathe park seem ed to look stonier than ever, as he gazed off upon the icy lake, with a sort of pity thatfore bore to look down upon the human wretched ness he had himself done withyears and years ago. Mr. Whiting hurried on, hardly compre Lending his errand, or what ho feared, until ho came to the house of his father-in-law—a pretty gothic cottage, set far back ono lawn, behind linden-trees. The house was shut up and silent ; but Mrs. Whiting was always o. lark at rising, and as her husband involuntari ly looked up at the window of the room they had so often occupied, he saw her just looping back the curtains, as cheerful and bright as a butter-cup. And before he was half way up the walk, she was through the doorway and down to meet him," smiling like a morning glory. "I didn't expect you before to-morrow," she cried, in girlish joy. "I thought you wouldn't get my • letter in time. Nobody is tip but me ; isn't that splendid l Nobody in the whole house ! We will go down to break fast before they know you arc here. Why, how delightful I could hug that old mail carrier for taking around my letter in time ! But wasn't it magnificent that Theodore hap pened to sec me Y lle said it was all luck and chance he did not go out the other side of the depot. And we were just in time to catch the Cleveland train. Theodore was Mrs. Whiting's eldest brother, just on his way home from India. And di rectly at the mention of his name, a stone of as many as twenty tons fell from Mr. Whitings heart, which, in consequence, felt lighter than sponge bread. " So you thought you would come right home with Theodore, instead of going to Cin cinnati to see Sarah Gaegon," said he. "Why, yes; Sarah is here, you know. Didn't I write you thatl All of us, brothers and sisters, arc together, now you have come," 'answered Mrs. Whiting, growing sweeter with every word she spoke, in the eyes of the happy husband. Mr. Whiting never told his wife his ethnical and tragical mistake, and she aver suspected the embroidered velvet cloak afiel ermine furs he bought for her that very day were, in sober reality, Ma nk-offerings INSTANTANEOUS DEATH Jerome Carden relates that eight reapers, who were eating their dinner under an oak tree , were all struck by the same flash of lightning, the explosion of which was heard far away. When some people passing by ap proached to see what had happened, they found the reapers in all appearance, continu ing their repast. One still held LIS glass in his hand, another was in the net of putting a piece of bread into his mouth, a third had his band on the dish. Death had come upon them suddenly whilst in these positions, when the thunderbolt Ten reapers, who had taken shelter under a ledge, were likewise killed all together during a violent storm. • • ' Like those mentioned above, they had pro fited by this necessary'suspension of labor to enjoy `a frugal meal, A touching detail, rela ted by the Rev. Mr... Butler, who narrowly escaped being h victim to the same storm, ehOws with what rapidity the whole of thin Joyous group had been deprived of life. One of the.unfortunato beings had,a dog in hie lap at the moment the lightning fell. Whilst ho caressed the animal with one hand, with the other ho offered it a piece of bread. Both the man and the dog were petrified, as it were, in this position. The paralyzed hand still held the piece of bread, and the expression on the animal's face seemed to say,-- To die with the rapidity of lightning Is to die as rapidly.as thought itself; for the flash which kills so quickly lasts a time as brief as that which but shows us .the spoke of tho wheel of a locomotive—as that which but en ables us to see immovable in the air the ball Whichtics through &witness from tho cannon's mouth. ROBERT IREDIDLL, JR., Plain an ffanr2 Sob Printer, No. 47 EAST HAMILTON STREET, OPETAMB, ALLENTOWN. PA ELEGANT PRINTINGI NEW DESIGNS LATEST STYLES. Stamped Cheeto,'Cardo, SirenUm:Paper Booki.,_CopstL , lotions awl By -Lair., School Catalogues, Bill h eads: Envelopes, Letter Heads Dills of Lading,. Way Ellie, Tags and Shipping Cards. Posters or any silo, eta , etc., Printed at Short Nonni NO. 26 A FAMILY GROUP. Copley, the artist, was elected a Royal Aca demician, and lived much ,respected by his brother artists and by the public. Once, and 'only once, ho figured as a party in a court of justice. A rich citizenof Bristol came to CoP ley, and had himself, his wife, and seven children, all included in a family piece. "It wants but one thing . ," mid the head of the family, "and that is the portrait of my first wife; for this one is my second." "But," said the artist, "she Is dead, you know, sir. What can I do? She is only to be admitted as an angel." "Oh, no, not at all," answered the other; "she must come in as a woman; no angels for mc." The portrait of, the first wife was added ; but while the picture remained in the studio, the citizen returned with a strange lady on his arm. "I must have another caste of your band, Mr. ,Copley," said lie, "nn accident befel my second wife, this lady is my third, and she is come to have her likeness included in the fam- ily group." The painter complied, and the husband look ed with a glance of satisfaction on his three spouses. Not so the living lady. She re- , mained Silent, but afterwards called by herself and remonstrated. "Never was such a thing heard of; it was unchristian that a man should, have three wives at once; her character would begone If she submitted to it; but her predecessors must 0 , , I And she solemnly declared that she had her husband's full authority for the alteration. The artist yielded, and immediately sent the picture home, that he might have no more trouble with it. But the enraged trignmist, without sending it back, refused to pay for it, and being sued, set up a defence that it was not according to order. The judge before whom the action was tried left it to the jury, "whether they did not believe that, under the circumstances, the third wife had the authority of the defendant for directing, the ejection of tho first and second wife ;" and the plaintiff recovered a verdict for the full amount of his demands.—Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors. —At a revival excitement in Connecticut, a respectable old lady was struck with convic tion and became a convert, and was proposed for membership of the church. There was a meeting held for the examination of the can didates, of whom there were several In atten- • dance. ' " Well, my dear sister Rogers," said the venerable examiner, addressing our venerable friend, "please relate your experience." The old lady, on being thus addressed, lifted up her voice. "Well," said she "I don't know what to say, as I told my husband, Mr. Rogers, before I came here, but I believe I have experienced a change, as I told Mr:Rogers, my husband, after I came home from meeting, when I be came convinced that I was the most sinful creature in the world,'as I told my husband, Mr. Rogers, and says he, 'I think so too.' Then I told Mr. Rogers, my husband, I was going to lead a different life—was going totrim my lamp, and have It burning agin the bride groom come. Then Mr. Roger, my husband, said ho didn't see what I wanted of another, but he didn't make no objection. Then I told Mr. Rogers, my husband, that I would join the church, and prepare myself for the place where the worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched ; and my husband, Mr. Rogers, told me I'd better. —A few days since, in the Supreme Court, at Lockport, N. Y., a dog occupied the seat of an absent juryman. The presiding judge turned to the counsel, and remarking that all the seats !nth° jurf-box were filled, asked was he willing to proceed. The council remarked that, "while the fellow might do for a fudge, • he was not willing to take him as a juror." There would have been a precedent for a dog sitting as associate on the judicial bench. On one occasion Curran, the great orator, plead ing before an Irish judge, stopped suddenly in his speech. "Go on, Mr. Curran, Ism lis tening," said the judge. "I thought," said the lawyer, with a significant look at a huge Newfoundland dog that the .magietrate was fondling, " I thought your lordships were consulting." —A man who has been traveling in Texas, says: "It is the hottest and the coldest, the wettest and the dryest, the richest and the poorest, the best and the meanest, has the best women and the meanest men, and more pretty ladies, with prettier little feet and no calves to suit ; more sickness and less health, more streams and less navigable waters, snore corn bread and less corn, more flour and less bis- cuit, more cows and less milk and butter, inure hogs and less pork, more chiCkens and less eggs, more gold and silver and less money, more deer and less venison, more negroes and less labor, more Bureaus and less furniture than any other country in the United States— and where house flies live always, and mus quitoes never die l" —Not long since, an elderly lady entered a railroad carriage at one of the Olio stations. and disturbed the, passengers a good deal with complaints about a "most painful rheu matic" that she was troubled with. A. gen tleman preseht, who had himself been a suf fuer with the same complaint, said to her : "Did you over try electricity, madam I tried it, and in the course of a short time it cured me." " Electricity," exclaimed the old lady ; "yes, I've tried it to my satisfaction. I was struck by lightning about a year . ago, but it didn't do me a single mossel o' good. —A clergyman in New haven recently re ceived a letter desiring him to prepare a lee ture for him ; "for," said the applicant; "I • am an excellent extemporaneous speaker if I had my lecture written for me." • —"Have you dined I" asked a lounger of his friend. "I have, upon my honor," re, plied he. "Then," rejoined the beat, "if you have dined upon your honor, X fear, you have made a scanty mud." . —A old minister the other day naked a wo man•what could be done to induce her hus band to attend church.' "I don't know,' she replied, "unless you were to put a pipe and a jug of whisky in his paw." . , • . Western farmer says, "We raise four hundred bushels of potatoes to the-acre here; which would boa big thing if wo didn't also raise insects enough to eat them all up." " ' —A...county magistrate, being called, to marry o Couple,. concluded thus: "I pro nounce you man and. wife ;.and may God' *have mercy on your souls I Amen. • .—Anna Maria Slone was recently married to Robert Short.. A pleasant way of making a story short: ' • • ' ' • • , —An eminent artist lately painted a snow storm so naturally that ho caught a bad cold by sitting tdo near it with his coat off. •
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