The Lehigh register. (Allentown, Pa.) 1846-1912, August 04, 1869, Image 1

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    ADVERTISING RATES.
ta. 1 mo. 3 moo. 0 moo. IV.
1.00 1.75 3,10 • 2110 1200
3.03 3.50 &NJ 10.00 10.00
4.10 5.03 Eux• 15.00 21 'XI
8.03 15.01 21131 40.0)
10.00 21.00 3.1.00 00.03
13.03 nno aato 80.00
23.00 50.80 80.00 150.00
3ne Square
rwo Squares
Three Squares
Sig Squares,
Quarter Column
Half Column .
One Column
Professional Card. SLIP por 1100 per year.
Admintstrator'a and Auditor's Notices, 10.00.
City Notices, 20 conte per lino Ist Insertion, U cents per
line each subsequent Insertion.
Ten lines agate constitute a square.
• ROBERT IREDELL, Jn., PUBLISHER,
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Clothing
Tt 4 , . I
THE CHEAPEST,
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL
AND MOST DURABLE
CLOTHING,
KEYSTONE HALL.
BALLIET & NAGLE
Have the [argent, Lest and eboopest stock of CLOTIIINU
over got up In this city, and sell Clouds In their Clue, ■uoh no
COATS,
PANTS,
and all other Goode portalulag to 111 i N' ti WEAN
FOR LESS MONEY,
than you can buy elsewhere In Eastern Pennsylvania
No Slop Shop made Good., sold.
CLOTIIING MADE TO ORDER.
We keep constantly on hand a large and elegant assort
ment of 000tH, from which customers can make their
selectloun and have them made up ott short notice. •
Their Culthig Department Is under tho supervision of
GEORGE K. REEDER,
who has had many years experience In the Mitering bust
nen and who will be plened to receive the calls of his
former patrons. .
*TAO work warrouted to bo of the very best.
Coil and seo our now SPRING STOCK, received at the
KEYSTONE HALL,
No. 24 West Hamilton Street
rent door to the Oconee Roformed Church, ALLEN
TOWN, PA.
A full Nosortmout of Goole Purolohlog goods always on
baud.
AARON BALLIET,
MAY 12-tf
GREAT ATTRACTION 1
NEW FIRM! NEW GOODS!
CLOTHING! CLO'T'HING!
GRAND SPRING AND SUMMER OPENING
GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICES
T. OSMUN & CO.,
Succe"orst 10 Metzger & Osnitin.
B A Ii (4 A I N
AT TUN
GREAT CLOTHING EMPORIUM
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NO. 4$ EAST HAMILTON STREET,
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We would Inform the citizens of Allentewu and the sur
rouudlug country that we are prepared with a large aluck
of goods for
SPRING AND SUMMER WEAR,
aud offer theta to the public nt reasonable prices. To those
who buy their Clothing reedy-made, they are prepared to
offer BARUAlliii.
• . WHOLE SUITS MADE TO ORDER
COATS, PANTS AND VESTS
cot and monde In the latent style, and by the best workman
OCR STOCK OF
CLOTHING, CLOTHS AND CABBIMEREB,
le larger then It ham twin before, and we Intend to sell
very SMALL PROFITS, and give our cuotomere the berm
St of our low purcha*N. •
()Kola quantilleo and radon°. of
NECKTIES, CUFFS, COLLARS,
And oiorythlog In tho lino of
GENT'S FURNISHING GOODS
MEN'S. yOUTHEV, !JOYS', and CHILDREN'S
.1 - WADY-MADE CLOTHING,
CONSTANTLY ON HAND
Don't forget tho place, No. 43 East Hamilton street, third
door above Sixth street.
T. Omion. JACOB 11. Scuola.
mar 21.tf
IRecbrittico.
coNsuonacKEN • •
BOILER AND COIL WORKS.
JOHN WOOD, J R.,
NANCVAITTIMIIt or
TUBE, FLHE AND CYLINDER BOILERS, BATH
AND STEAM CIRCULATING BOILERS,
AU kinds of Wrought Iron Coils, Tuyers for Blast Fur
nace, Oasometers, Smoke Stacks, Blast Pipes, Iron Wheel
barrow., and everything in the Boller and Shea Iron line.
Also, all kinds of Iron and Steel Forging. sad Blackamith
work, Miners' Toots of all kinds, such as Whom Buckets,
Picks, Drills, Mullets, Sledges Ac.
Having a Eiteam Hummer an d sot of tools of all kinds,
and skilled workmen, I flatter myself that I ran turn out
work with promptness and dispatch, all of which will be
warranted to be Ant class.
Patching Bolters, and repairing Itnn4allY, atrial/ at
tended to. nor 7-ly
STRATTON'S PORTABLE AIR GAS
MACHINE.
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RAVE MONEY BY MAKEVO YOUR OWN OAS.
THE CHEAPEST LIGHT IN USE
Stratton'. Oati Machine fur illuminating Rotel... Private
Residences, Stores, Mills. etc., I. simple In construction,
consumes all the material tined In the manufacture of an,
and Is so cheap as to bring it within the reach of all. It le
free from explosions, can be managed by soy person, and
produce. a superior light to nil others, at ono-lialf the cost
of ordinary burning gas. NO PIKE IS APPLIED TO TILE
APPARATUS. It can be attached to ordinary sail pipe.
and fixtures, the only variation boles in the enlargement,
of the burnedets. All parts of the apparatus are made In
the most thorough and workmanlike manner. Superiority
aver all machines is claimed to the following particulars
First, Coat of Construction. Second Illuminating Capac
ity. Third, Compactness and Simplicity, and consequent
Impossibility of its gettingout of order. Fourth, Economy
lu use of material. A machine capable of supplying ten
burner. costa VA
Any further Information will be given and the workings
of the machine explained by calling upon the agent fur
Lehigh county. • •
C. W. STUBER,
WALNUT STREET, CORNER OP PENN
(ANOVZ 110111LINNIORO COLUMN.)
ALLENTOWN PA
gor tide Lades.
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HONE SEIVING MACHINE
Alwaym on band and for sal, by
EDWARD DESHLER, AGENT
• NO. 61 EAST HAMILTON STREET,'
asnmexces:
lign i l.eb, Jr., Boot dud Shoe ilanufinturer.
Seaton aaukol,
1411Ier, Bebralber k Co. IlerchinATalloro.
Rhoads k Kelm,
Wm. r. n o. A . gg i j'Vdt t le Broom! 27111012A1 Seek,
~ B. tilluger, irrortcr t ",A.Li w ,
tir:v iniii lllettiz . II •
ly,
LAP EN
ho i now :1;le l s : Ve l s ) 1 1 41 I :dy received at
MU& M. A. G. GULDINII
141.110.1 . Trlmmlpg Store. The faahlona are pretty. Ladle.,
call and e them. Hoop Skirls aro cheaper than ha cheap
tl mar ea-80aprIngs, well made. itt ttll al springs at 81 74 21.1(
TIMeittrgLtTMOST RE.
B et tnlity.
-0 W. J. EVERETT,
50 NORTH SEVENTH STREET,
IS I I
Below Arek.Fhlladelphli, (late Mn . Melllenaeban`e
Trona.. Female Ituoveriersi Umeee, Elastic Belle, Sleek
loge. Lowest prime. Pealed adjultuteute. Lally at
fondant. . Jutiol647
VOL. X XIII
FOSTER' S
PRICE LIST.
come k Clark'.. Cotton. 7e., other+ charge ilk.
White Haas, 12iie.. other.. ehargu lb.
Better quality. lik.. °Moro charge 23.
Fitter quality, 23, 39, 33 att4 43e.
rot, run save on Boa:try from Stu 20c. a pair by buy
ttf as.
Splendid Yard•wide Mwlin, IVie., °there charge lge.
lion on Warneutta, lbe. others charge 20e.
Beet Wanteutta bluelin:22o., °there charge Vie.
Ilearleat Brown Sheeting, 16e.. other. chew Bk.
You eau sarefrom g lob ern(' per yard by buying
fllturitor etre.
Bent Merrimack Prints 12!5c. others charge
Britt Payer bluelins. 121.5 c., °there charge 18c.
Doeble.width Alpacas, 01c , others charge
Finer quality Alpacas, ic., others charge 00c.
Very One Alpacas. 511 c., others charge &tr.
11111 Finer Alpacas, superb goods, SO, Si. 680.. and id 10.
You can sare from 15 fa 50 cents per yard by buying
Alpacas qfyis.
Best Spring DoLaines, 18c., others charge 2k.
Plaid Dress Goods, 25e., ot hers charge 38c.
Unbleached Table Diaper, 50c., ethers charge 80e.
Extra Wide and Deasy 75c , other+ charge $1 IA
Bleached Snow Drop Diaper, tile., others charge toe.
Damask Table Diaper, 7.k., others charge SO Ott.
Very Sao Damask, 51 181. others charge $1 Oa
you ran sarefrom 23 to 50 cents bybuying Table Dia
pers of as.
VESTS
Heavy Blue Denims, "Me., others charge 30c
Hotter quality 01c., others charge 40c.
Good Straw Ticking, ilk., others charge tile.
Bettor quality. 250., others charge Sic.
Very Heavy and(hood, 30c., others charge 4.50.
Fine all wool Flannel. 37!{c.; others charge Wc.
You can save from to 50 cents per yard by buying
there goods of us.
Beet KentC assi ucky Jean 40 and Vic., others charge Kt
All Wool meres, 75e., others charge $1 05.
Splendid qualities, at $1 00, others charged fa.
Black Doeskin Crtsinsere. V 00, others charge $3 CO.
Plaid Shirting Flannels 25c., others charge 45c.
FinerLi Napkin., $1:150 par ot h e r her charge
qualities. 52 00 per doz., charge $3 00.
You can save from 15 to 72 cents per yard by baying
these goods of us.
Black Silks, $l5O, others charge la 00.
Beery Bloch Silks, V 25_, others charge 3100.
Very heavy Corded, V cu , others charge V br).
Handsome Silk Poplins, $1 00, others charge 111 75.
Plain Colored bilk Poplins, thenS, others charge $2 2.5.
Colored Dress Silks, 3125, charge 40
You can saes front .10 cents to Si MI by buying Bilks
of us.
Good Stair Carpets, 2c ., othorai charge 4.5.
Floor quality . 45c., othere charge 60e.
Yard wide lograle, 53e., others charge *1 00.
Very heavy Ingrain, $1 00, others charge $1 60.
These are Auction Carpets and are awful cheap.
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-FOSTER'S
NEW IFORK. CITY STORE,
°puceto Gorman Tieformod Church,
ALLENTOWN, PA.
WHITE GOODS.
BELOW' REGULAR RATES.
PLAIN, PLAID AND STRIPED NAINSOOKS.
PLAIN, PLAID AND STRIPED ORGANDIES.
VICTORIA AND BISHOP LAWNS.
PEKIN FORTES, New Style, and Choice for Dresses.
PIQUES. In all grade.,
SOFT AND lIAIID FINISHED CAMBRIC& .
SHIRRED 'SUBURB. A Choice Stock. .
EMBROIDERIES.
FINE NEEDLE WORK EDGINGS and INSERTINGS at
ONE-HALF VALUE.
HAMBURG/1, In SWISS and CAMBRIC. A Full Stock.
RUFFLINGet of all kludm, am MAGIC, EMPRESS, At.
LACES.
REAL and IMITATION GUIP URE, ,
LEAD and VALENCIA.
BOBINETS and WASH BLONDS.
GRENADINES FOR VEILS, The Now Colon.
LADIES', MISSES', and BOYS' CUFFS told COLLARS.
L I EMAISTRE & ROSS,
212 NORTE' EIGHTH STREET, PIIILADA.
July 7..(11
66 SUDDEN CHANGE."
WILL LOW PRICES INFLUENCE YOU?
OLD TIMES AGAIN
311iIENBE REDUCTION IN PRICES I
THE OLD CORNER
STOCK OF SPRING GOODS,
STYLE, VARIETY, AND LOWNESS OF PRIOR
shall and cannot ha surpassed
flier Competition defied teith any other Estattehnietat
otttakle of the larger . ritial•_LED
SPACE WlLLg oods NOT PERMIT OF NAMING such an Im
inetute Moat of , hut let it softie° to nay that we have
the twist COMPLETE annoriment of Ladies Dress Clouds,
Dress Slika, Poplins, Shawls, Baltuontin, House Furnish
ing O
it, adle.' Cloaking Cloth, Men's Wear in Cloth,
Cannitueres, be., god everything that .0 kept lon FIRST-
C LASS DRY GOODS STORE to endlens variety. Ido out
"QUOTE PRICES" w swum houses do. but will guarantee
MARTIN LYNN.'
ASTONISIIING FIGURES.
Tho differeure In prices of goods today and a mouth Aga,
is really painful for those who have been caught with
large stock. CM hand at high prices, but that la not the
case with use, I shall us heretofore make tho OLD COIt
,PER •
THE GREAT PLACE OF INTEREST
AND HEADQUARTERS
ter the wow , a to get thetr geode at the
LOW EST MA R k ET PRICES
I fully realize that no permanent Sutton eau be achieved
unless the promises held out by advertisements are found
to be fully curtained on • visit to the store. Nor can It he
• largesuccess without scrupulously reliable and fair
dealing at all times and uniform courtesy to every custo
mer,-and the endeavor to make every buyer a constant
dealer. All I bat to simply to decide by acfitof fetal
whether or not It Is to your advantage to become a custo
mer.
Respectfully Yours,
M. J. KRAMER,
•
"OLD CORNER,"
OPPOSITE THE EAGLE 110 TEL.
aprll
Cttyptto aub, Oil Cloth.
( P IE CARPET AND OIL CLOTII
EMPORIUM OP
E. S. SHIMER & CO.,
NOS. 5 AND 7 WEST HAMILTON ST
In all Ha lat eat varlet's., Ogle. and patter...
PRICES REDUCED!
We keep for male all the following popular nukes
BODY BRUSSELS,
5 PRANK ENGLISH,
5 PRANK DIGELOR,
5 FRANK HARTFORD,
ENGLISH TAPESTRY,
CROSSLEY'S TAPESTRY,
STODDART TAPESTRY
SMITH TAPESTRY,
HARTFORD & OWELL, extra 3ply.
IMPERIAL. exits 3 ply,
MEDIUM SUPERFINE. 3 ply.
SMITH TAPESTRY INGRAIN.
PHILA. SUPERFINE de.
PHILADELPHIA PINS INGRAIN,
PHILADELPHIA COMMON INGRAIN,
PHILADELPHIA WOOL INGRAIN, do.
WINDOW SHADES
CURTAINS
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, STELE AND PRIM
MANWOOD I HOW LOST, WOW
100 publlsheka POW edition of Dr. Culvorwell'a Cele
brated Hoag on tbe radical cure (without medicine) of
SPEINATOMILICEn, or Seminal Wealtuese Invololuterp
80.0111111 Looses. inkoratice. Mental and Phreleal Inca
pacity Impediments to Marriage, etc.; also, COMMON,
TIOS, tiPILZPIT, nod 1 , 1714 IndliOnd by coif -Indulgenco or
aenttal extravaganc
TThhee Price . fn u t
oe
ly
author. e ureptirable 'essay. clearly
ato.
demonstrates frost a thirty year. eacceseful practice. that
the alnrmlng con...UW/110011 of ..if-abase may be radically
cured without the dsagereue use of internal asedielite or
the Indication of the knife; pointing oat a mode of cure
at once emple. eertain. and effectual, by gdoddd of which
hi.
plk-This Lecture shoeld be in . the hands of every youth
nod eeeee man in the land.,
Bent under ertel, In a - plain envelope. to any address,
k A e l istpre. c o o n ie rreipt r o . f.till o cents. or pro, poet .lamp.
AL . t• r ind)POb r ittnfn. ( .1 3 .P.SLIfil i r 2 C 5 0 d. .,
1721.11 r i n Bowery. New York , P. 0. Dor. Leal
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IS. WATERMAN.
err^et rioter of WATERMAN'S COCKTAIL AND TON
IC DITTKIUL Wholesale and Detail. No. IMO Market Bt..
Philadelphia.
The tonic properties antes° Bitters have been certified
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fi nee; n ea r , V41:1:: ° . 1 :1,7 MIT Ville:1 1 1r . t 11:
univereal favorite among ,Indgel of A [cod gin or Mbirk7
cock tail.
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REPLEN (SHED
ALLENTOWN, PA.. WEDNEI
From Ilnrprr'o Weekly.
WOMAN'S ASPIRATIONS
I tell ON, Willa We WIWI. n clearer mince,
More Ln•nthlutt rams, name stirring work to ds !
`To elfish life's hill''—hate well pot •tole thy CHAP
Those climb the hill who would enjoy the vlew.
[(true strength Iles Inn callus nothltignenn.
Then Idiots aro all men. I novo,
doll toinplinlviltP. fudrrJ, and
Love, music, dowers and other u.eless matters
Suit our rich sisters. Tell um, ore the rent—
The thousand poor ono.—all to starve In tatter,.
'Tis usnscullue to lector, lecture, quibble :
Mutt women be content to teach or scribble!
"Man bath his fitting task s"—l grant you so I
And those ta-iks bring him good sabstiintlal payment
While Wolllmu treads the same doll world Of W.% •
Ilut scarcely gains enough for food and rainiont,
She, working hard, Is burled among naiilierA —
Ile leaves a fortune to M. , sour uud daughters.
"Our herltugo In 80111111.4 really eharmlng
But yet it bring. no money year by year. •
Now, were It no with the phynie, preaching', bring
Tun 1111.Cl1111111 WOll Id 110011 feel rather queer.
•
Perchance we beat lu our plot.. notlona ;.
Mill women can't ~gist en their devotion, -
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\Ve cannot keep our two In proper trim ;
Thus, you would pineo us In nn mid position—
Pulling
ut home, con We'lmobootln Mott
Such mall Intrigue buoy given moment's fun ;
BM. when tile prize In gni urd, what lin, we won t
Thank God you can't bring lock the !diddle Ages,
Or make no unto forget 31110 A II I,
Prato as you may, HOMO WOlllOll kW.' been sage.,
And no In future Onion they yet shall be
Not rooting, minus soul beside the mount Pill-
The nwertest grow from wisdom's rhrystal fountain.
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'Neath freedom' ,. sunlight torn can brave the glottal
Our path, perforce, Is strewn with aclf•douhil ;
Can we gaze patiently upon our doom !
To serve, to mane, to tutor, and fur all thin
To gel sometimes a patronizing kiss.
Theta lot us atlll be man ; be ;mod and trusting—
No harm to Nl,lOl n. bl o t a trifle wlser ;
A woman not a woman In dlsgnstlng,
But Impudence don't make MO to dentine bor.
80. when alio, homeless, Wendt°nn and n•weary,
Grant work, With gold, or life will he but dreary.
BoRRu WED 14 AG (IA E
Cyrus Durham was very busy on a certain
afternoon making an omelet. • At least lie
called it an omelet, but in reality it was Roth
lug but scrambled eggs. "Omelet" sounded
better, but it would not have tasted half as
good, especially if Cyrus bad had to make one
himself.
In order to understand why this young man
cooked his own eggs it must be known that he
was a medical student in Philadelphia, and
the son oft' very respectable and by no means
ungenerous physician in Maryland, who allow
ed him for his expenses quite enough to keep
him very comfortably, even in a large city.
But Cyrus, who always had table-board on
Walnut Street for about the first half of every
month, had generally been accustomed from
necessity to live in a "bachelor-hall" style for
the remaining portion of the month in his
rooms on Sansom Street. He was very nice
ty situated in these rooms, and the high rent
he paid for them contributed not a little to his
slimness of purse during those days which im
mediately preceded the arrival of his monthly
remittances. Ills "study" was on the second
floor of what is known in the city of Brother
ly Love as the "back-buildings,'• and was ap
proached from the long entry by n single
short flight of stairs. This room looked out
at the side on a pleasant yard, was very well
furnished, and was altogether quite too good
for a young fellow who ought to have been
satisfied with any garret where he could study
unmolested. Back of the large room was, a
small bed chamber, generally tenanted not
only by Cyrus himself, but by any one of his
companions who might stay too late studying
anatomy—or euchre.
Cyrus was bending over his little wood
stove stirring his eggs rapidly lest they should
burn, and keeping an eye at the same time on
his coffee-pot, which, however, had given no
signs of boiling. It was only four o'clock,
but Cyrus had had but n slight lunch, and so
wanted an early supper. This power of hav
ing his meals when he chose was another ad
vantage of this mode of living. Ills table
was set with a small linen cloth (the clean
side up), a cup and saucer, and a plate. The
4 ` omelet" was just done, and Cyrus had giv
en it the last scrape around the pan, when
there was a knock at the door.
"Come in !" said lee, and the door opened
and the knocker entered. Cyrus looked
around, and dropped on the top of the stove
the frying pan which he was Jost lifting off
by the long handle. In the doorway stood a
young lady, dressed in the loveliest possible
traveling suit, with roses in her cheeks
far more glowing than the pink lining of her
parasol.
"Mr. Durham," said she.
"Why, Miss Birch I" cried Cyrus (with his
face redder than any silk n lady wnuld dare
use to line her parasol). "I had no idea—l
am very glad to see you, take a seat. You
must excuse me—bachelor's hall, you know.
When did you come on ?"
Miss Fanny Birch was by no means unem
barrassed. bite had hesitated about calling
on Mr. Durham, and would certainly have
postponed her visit had she thought she would
have found hint cooking his dinner, supper,
or whatever It was. But she took a seat
which Cyrus placed for her (as tar as possible
frinn the stove, but unluckily facing it,) and
with a little laugh, which was intended to re
store her self-possession, and . which had a
partial success, asked him where he supposed
she had "come on" from ; and then without
waiting for an answ•er,proceeded to inform hint
that she had not come front home, but was
just going there (she lived about half a mile
from Dr. Durham's place) from her uncle
William's, where she had been for nearly a
month.
"You know," said she, "that he lives in
New Jersey, just .a little way out of 'Frei'.
Cyrus didn't know it, but he did not say so
but asked her if she bad a pleasant time. She
answered that it was at first, but she got tired
as soon as her cousin Emily had been obliged
to go back to boarding , chool ; and, he knew,
those Connecticut schools always commenced
their terms right In the middle of the finest
weather ; and did all the students keeP bach
elor's hall this way ?
Cyrus Said the most of them did ; at any
rate those who liked better and fresher food
then they generally got at the boarding houses.
Then Miss Fanny remarked that she thought
that is was a very good way if you only knew
how to cook ; and didn't he think that what
ever was in that pan was all burning up? Cy
rus turned round and said he thought it was ;
and so he took the frying pan, fullf o blackened
and smoking eggs, oirthe fire, and moved the
coffee-pot a little back.
When he sat down again there was a little
silence. He knew she had not come to see
him simply because they were old friends and
neighbors, and he thought it very probable
that she bad something particular to say, and
was wondering how she should say it. lie
was right. After looking out of the window,
and remarking that she should think the peo
ple in the next house could look right in liere,
she said
" Mr. Durham, I guess you wonder why I
came to see you. Oh yes, of course you are
glad ; but you see, I left uncle's this morning
by the boat and sent the trunks on home by
express, and coming off the bout at Arch street
wharf, or somewhere—l haven't the slighest
idea where—l had my pocket picked, or lost
my porte-monnale ; and I didn't know a soul
in Philadelphia who could lend me enough to
pay my fare in the cars, except you, and I
thought I'd borrow some of you. I knew
you lived in Sansom street, but I had to
ring at ever so many houses before I found
you.' ,
Now:ita Cyrus had exactly forty-eighi . cents
In his pocket, this was rather hard on the
young man.
"You see," she continued, "that if I take
the six o'clock train for Baltimore, I will get
there about ten, and then Icon stay with Mrs.
Sinclair to.night. The passenger cars will
take me right past the door, and father will
send you the money"
.'Oll, don't mention that," said Cyrus, who
looked exactly as if he . was returning from the
1 grave of a pair of twins. "Ilutl haven't—l
think not, at least—hut that need make no
difference—l'll just step out and get it. Oh, I'm
very glad indeed—no trouble at all—very glad
you cornett) me. Just make yourself comfort
able here for a few minutes. There's pipe—
AY MORNING, AUGUST 4, 1869.
perhaps you would
ack directly. No
I mean there's some Lod
MEI
like to look at.
trouble at ail."
So off went Cyrus Wit hls hat on bind
part before. As for Mis r Fanny Birch, she
first wished she hadn't cat e.: But then she
thought that she couldn't elp it, for she had
no other place to go to. ut she thought of
coo ree he'd have money enough for that.
3 1
"What a pity about those NsHust as black
as a crisp I What a limn way of living l I
wonder if he calls these tinge clean. He
ought to have somebody to wash his cups and
plntesTor him ; but I suppise it wouldn't ho
bachelor's ball if he didn'tllo it himself. All
those books are full of hor#d bones, I expect'
I'm sure I don't want to hok at them. I
should think he did -nothi , but smoke; pipes
every where. I wish o'd hurry back.
Why it's six o'clock ' n v 1 Oh, that clock
don't go—l declare, it q Ito frightened me.
Why don't he have his el k w and up?"
With thoughts like tiles Miss Fanny be
guiled a part of the time tl t she was obliged '
to wait for Cyrus ; but at ngth, tiring of ex-
amining the room, she ve m ured to take up a
book, which fortunately p vod to be an odd
volume of Macaulay, and so she forgot the
world in the fortune of W I lam of Orange un
til Cyrus returned. 11
That poor young man hat\ a hard time of it.'
. oat poor young it..._
On
On reaching the street he stood for a moment
in doubt, and then hurried to William lids
kill's boarding house, to try and borrow ten
dollars. He knew that tivewould pay Miss
Brch's passage through to lier father's house;
but he could not offer her les\than ten. Heis•
kilt was out. Then a quick, run round to
Walnut Street revealed the filet that Seymour
had "gone out walking, Sir,. with Mr.Hels.
kill." Cyrus knew that there was but little
chance or finding any of his Student friends at
home on such a fine afternoon ; but still ho
hurried down toSpruce street, to see if by
chance little Myles was trybig to make up for
lost time by a trifle of study. But Myles, if
he was engaged in any work of self-benefit,
was not doing it at home.
" Continual It I" said Cyrus. "I'll try pi
ous Arnold."
"Pious" Arnold was so called, not on ac
count of any particular religious tendency lie
exhibited, but simply becau he attended lec
tures regularly and studied lard in the mean
time, refusing all temptatiot in the way of
card parties, excursions, or titer diversions of
the students.
"Pious" was at home, but was very sorry
he couldn't lend Cyrus a dollar. Ile had (al
though he didn't say so) twOnty-seven dollars
in a little black box in Ids trunk, which was
exactly what was due his landlady at the end
of the month, and In declinihg to part with
any of it he did perfectly right, for It Is very
doubtful if he would have had it back again in
time to maintain his reputation as the best
paying student In Jefferson College.
Poor Cyrus was dumfounded. He knew
not another soul to whom he could apply. One
of the Professors, with whose he had a previ
ous acquaintance through Ws father, might
have helped him out but he lived over in West
Philadelphia, and there was no time to go to
him. It was now striking five, and the train
started at six. Ile had nothing to sell. Ile
had "lent" his watch to help pay for a walnut
book-case that was one of the recent orna
ments of his room, and he had nothing else on
w deli at so short notice, he could raise a dollar.
Ile stopped, on his way back front Arnold's
again at Ileiskill's boarding-house; but of
course he had not returned. What, in the
name of every thing that was absurd, termite to
do ? After some ten minutes of fruitless beat
ing of his brains, he came to the conclusion
that he must go back and tell his shameful sto
ry, Mr if Miss Birch had any other way of
managing this difficulty, it was time she was
about it. So lie went home and up to his
room.
Miss Fanny rose, but the moment she saw
him she knew that he had not got themoney,;
And so there was no necessity of blotching the
story.of his shame and p.....rt 6r .- ack
much pity for his manifest embarrassment and
downheartedness that she said,, laughingly,
"There, you haven't got the money. All
you students spend every cent your fathers
send you as soon as it comes, nnd so you
couldn't borrow any. But it don't make any
difference. I have no doubt but that it will
all come out right. Such things always do."
"That may be," said Cyrus, "but I don't
see how it is to come out right. You might
go to a hotel and send home for money."
" Wouldn't they make me pay any thing as
soon as I got there?" she asked.
" Not if you travel like a person who looks
as if she had money—with plenty of trunks
and things."
"But I haven't got any trunks; they arc
all sent on by express."
"Oh, as for that," said Cyrus, brightening
up a little, "I could lend you a trunk."
This method of gaining credit seemed so
funny to both IA them that they laughed as
heartily as If there was no such trouble as
money in the world. Miss 'Fanny declared,
however, that she would not put Mr. Durham
:to all that bother ; but Cyrus assured her that
it was no trouble or inconvenience in the least
to lain.
"In flict," said lie, "it's ¶ splendid idea I
Just think of it ! Why, I can make money
out of you. I have a trunk with books and
ihlng,s that I have packed up to take home for
the vacation, and I should have to send it by
express. Now you can take it right on for
me, and it will go as your baggage, and will
cost neither of us any thing. What do you
think of that idea?"
" Perfectly splendid I" cried Miss Fanny
" And now how will I get to the hotel with
toy baggage F'
"oh, I will arrange that," said Cyrus
"and now you don't know how relieved
feel."
"So do I," said Fanny. "But I knew it
would conic out all right some way. I wish
those eggs were not all burned up, for I would
ask you for seine of them. Fin awful hun
gry 1"
It is astonishing how a common trouble and
a common relief aceidemtes the growth of fa
miliarity. Bur •thon Fanny and Cyrus bad
known each other ever since they were child
ren.
."Oh, I've plenty more I" cried Cyrus;
"let
me cook you some—you won't get any thing
to eat the minute you get to the hotel."
And he ran to his little wood-stove, where
some embers still remained, Fanny demurred
and "declared," but Cyrus persisted; and so
a fire was quickly kindled with light wood,
and he made fresh coffee, while Fanny took
off her gloves and beat up the eggs as well as
she could for laughing at Cyrus's funny ways
of doing things—keeping his ground coffee in
a porter bottle, and all that stale bread, as If
he ought not to be able to know Just how
much he wanted when he Bought it.
"But then, you: know, I must always be
ready for company," said the happy Cyrus ;
and there was more laughing, and sonic dan
ger of splashes of eggs on a new traveling
dress. When it came to setting' out another
cup, saucer, and' plate, Miss Fanny asked,
would he please excuse her, but If he wouldn't
feel insulted she thought she would just rub
them off a little, if there was hot water in one
of those spigots over there in the corner. And
when the shining queens-ware was placed on
the table Cyrus vowed that it had never been
so white since it had been bought.
They had a delightful meal, but no butter.
Cyrus couldn't keep butter, ho said, in that
warm weather ; but the bread was Dutch
cake with ialsins in it, and the coffee, with
cream that was just beginning to turn, was
capital, and so were the scrambled eggs.
Our friend was as happy as a king. Ile was
so glad that Ilciskill and the other felloivs bad
been out when he called, and be only hoped
they wouldn't drop in on hint on their way
back. But there was no danger of that. Miss
Fanny seethed to remember that the afternoon
was on the wane, and rising and declaring
that she had never had a nicer supper, " prin ,
cipally because it was so funny," said she
must be going; and which was her trunk
"The smallest of those two yellow ones,"
said Cyrus; "and we will write your name
on. a card and tack it on the eud, so as to
make every thing ship-shape."
This was soon done, and then Cyrus went
for a hack. He. knew a man who "stood"
near his college, and who had trusted bins bp
fore, and who would do It again. Cyrus gave
hint some private instructions in recard to
making it appear that the lady bad just come
from the Kensington depot.
"That can be worked," said the man ; "the
train's just in—about ten minutes now."
So they hurried back. Miss Birch was es-
cortcd down, find the man sent up stairs for
the trunk. So far so good; but Mrs. Stacy,
the landlady, a thoroughly good soul, but a
little careful about students, now made her
appearance with a look of anxiety upon her
face.
"Going to take your trunks away, -Mr.
Durham 7" said she,. as soon as the lady was
in the carriage.
Cyrus led her buck into the hall, and ex
plained that it was Unly one trunk, and added
that he was not going to leave the house, and
would explain to her in a minute. The thought
of nil his furniture now came over the good
lady's mind, and she retired, satisfied for the
present. The trunk .was now strapped on,
and at the deer of the carriage Cyrus was
about to take leave of Miss Fanny, when she
remembered the dispatch. Cyrus promised
to attend to that (fur he had just about money
enough) ; and it was agreed that it had better
be sent to her uncle, as her father lived nearly
three miles from a station. Then good-by
was said, and away to the La Pierre House
went Fanny Birch with Cyrus Durham's
heart. Yes, she had it certainly. He had
known her and liked her, ever so much, for
years ; but he had never seen her in the full
bloom of young womanhood until to-day.
She had never before had such an intimate
„ .
the hit of sympathetic action ivith him ; she
ad never before eaten nt his table I
• .
When poor Cyrus went back into tits room,
after sending the dispatch, ho sat down dis
consolately. How dark, dreary, and common
looking was everything I How disagreeable
that little stove, and how hot ; and how stu
pid those dirty dishes I One cup, saucer, and
plate he put away, and vowed he would never
wash it. Ho was not a fool, but he was
young.
Then he lighted his pipe and sat down to
ruminate. There she had sat and talked to
him ; there slievjuid stood by the table while
he was writing aft, name, on the card ; and
there she had held it against the end of the
trunk while he stuck the tack through the first
corner ; yes, and there it was stilt! There
was no doubt of it—the card was just where
he had tacked it. What did it mean ? 011,
that stupid hound of a hackman had taken the
wrong trunk I
• Cyrus bad scarcely comprehended the ex
tent of this misfortune when there was a knock
at the'door l and there entered Heiskill, Sey
mour and little Myles. They had just got in
from a walk in the country ; had had a capi
tal dinner about four o'clock, and were now
here to go to work, they said, after an after
noon of play. In order to prove this assertion
they each lighted a pipe, and seated themselves
around the room, with their feet upon the
highest article of furniture that they could
reach.
" What is the matter with Cy t" said little
Myles. "What makes him so quiet? and
why is he sitting.here with the room all full
of the shades of evening, like a miserable
tomb?"
Cyrus made sonic joking answer, and ris
ing, lighted the gas. After considerable talk
and general chaffing, lleiskill proposed that
the big table be cleared, and that they should
go to work.
kYou're professor to-night, Seymour, you
now,o and try not to ask any questions you
can't answer yourself."
"Then let him stick to the spinal column,"
said little Myles. " I don't want him asking
me to articulate a humerus and a fibula again.'
"Oh, you needn't bother about who's to be
demonstrator I" said Cyrus. "We can't do
any anatotny to-night. The skeleton's gone."
In ordet that the foregoing conversation
may be understood, it may be well to slate
that these yoting men had clubbed together
to buy an articulated skeleton, upon which
they rubbed up their anatomical knowledge,
each of the party acting in turn for an evening
as "professor," and asking questions of the
others. This skeleton was kept in a long yel
low packing-trunk, and the hackman had tak
en it off with plies Birch to the hotel. There
nut pare taken
It, for it was near the door, and was indeed
the only trunk visible upon first entering.
Cyrus was so full of Miss Birch and the bother
some landlady that he did not notice the mis
take.
• .
Of course, with three such eager and amazed
Inquirers as to the whereabouts of their com
mon property, there was nothing to lie done
but to tell, under promises of strict secrecy,
the whole story. It was received with un
bounded applause, and the joke was consider
ed far more enjoyable than any studying of
anatomy could possibly prove. When the
laughter had somewhat subsided Heiskill asked
Cyrus what he intended to do.
` Why, I'll have to go round in the morn
ing and explain that the wrong trunk was
taken (of course I shan't tell her what is in it)
and then I'll have to get that Bill again to
drive her and it to the Baltimore depot, and
Instead of leaving the trunk, he must 'bring it
back here. I bate the plan, for it not only
gives trouble, but makes a lot of trickery about
the young lady:that I don't like. And I was
going to send down my books so nicely
Conibund that man I"
" Do you think she'll open it in her room ?"
said little Myles.
"Of course not, you blockhead," snapped
Cyrus. "She hasn't the key, and besides, do
you suppose she would open my trunk if she
had r`
The most astonishing surmises now ensued
as to what would happen if so and so should
be sound so, and when no possible combina
tion of Unlbrtunate circumstances could be
added to what had been already laughed over,
they descended to puns. Some good and
some very bad ones were made, and poor little
Myles, after cudgeling his brains for the whole
period of punning time, finished the perform
ance by wishing to goodness that the man had
been named "Cohen" when ho was alive, so
that something might be said about m "trun
cated cone." Nothing was bad enough to
follow this, and so they got out the cards.
The next morning Cyrus dressed himself in
his best, and actually went to his washerwo
man's house to get a white vest, if by chance
it was done. It was about half past ten when
he reached the lintel, and the clerk told him
that Miss Birch had gone.
"Done I" cried Cyrus. " Where could she
have gone so soon!'
The clerk looked very hard at him, and re
plied, "How do I know where she went?"
However, after Cyrus had explained how
ho bad intended calling upon this young holy
before she left for Baltimore, thus proving that
he was properly aware of her destination, the
clerk informed him that she had left, in com
pany with an elderly gentleman, in time to
catch the ten o'clock train. Cyrus went home
in a state of utter bewilderment. Whets lie
reached his room he found there a note—a
note from Fanny, the • first he had ever re
ceived :
DEAIt Mn. DUIMAII,—TIIO telegram reached
uncle last night, and Instead of sending me the
money he came himself early this morning. I
wanted to wait until you called and thank you
for your kindness and your trunk (which I will
take good care of); but uncle thought I bad bet.
ter take the ten o'clock train, because that was
the only train, until afternoon, which connected
with the curs or end he thought the
family would be worried ICI didn't get home until
after my trunks arrived by express. Ile says be
will leave this and stop and thank you himself.
Yours Truly, F.
On inquiry, Cyrus found that the note had
been left by a gentleman just before he game
in, who asked for him, but couldn'rwalt.
Now what wax to be done I 4 Nothing,Xy:
rus thought, but to write to his father, tell
him the story, and get him to send over to
Mr. Birch's for the trunk; and return It to
Philadelphia by express. This course having
been concluded upon, Cyrus wrote and mail
ed a letter to his father.
The rest of the day would probably have
been spent by Cyrus in the enjoyment of raw
ny's letter and his recollections of liar visit,
had not his friends called upon him to know
If he had got back old "Cohen" (for so they
had baptized the "truncated" one, since little
Myles's pun.) When they heard the rest of
the story they were wild with delight, and the
osseous jokes that were.made were worthy of
the inmates of a madhouse.
•
"It's such a mean old trunk," said little
Myles. "Nothing but. thinpackage.box any
way, and I don't believe I locked it last time.
I'll bet any man ten dollars that old Cohen's
Out before this time."
"They'll open it on too cars when they
hear it rattle," said Seymour. "You know
people can only take wearing npparel, and a
skeleton is not wearing apparel—at least that
one Is not wearing any."
"If they think it's freight, and takes out it
will result In fr(ghl," suggested Myles; and
then, ns usual, the uproar stopped the joking.
The next morning, About nine o'clock, just
as Cyrus had finished his breakfast (got on
credit from the grocery store where he dealt),
be received a telegram. It was from Mr.
Birch, and contained these words:
"You are wanted here. Come on immediately."
Cyrus clutched his hair, stamped his foot,
clapped on his hat, locked his door, rushed
round to Heiskill's, forced from him four dol
lars and some seventy cents—all he had—and
reached the Baltimore depot In time for the
ten o'clock train. What his feelings, his
fears, or his hopes were during the journey Is
not to be put on paper. At two o'clock he
had reached Baltimore. By half past he was
on his way in the Martinville train to his dett.
tination. Reaching the village, lie had no
money or desire to hire a carriage, and so
started out to walk as rapidly as possible the
two miles and a half that lay between him and
Mr. Birch's house.
Arriving there, hot and thistered r he walk
ed through the open door; and hearnig voices
in the dining-room, walked quickly in and
found a coroner's Jury 'sitting upon the re
mains ()I' the unfortunate Cohen I •
We will now relate the circumstances which
led to this inquest. The trunk hail been ta
ken to the hotel in safety, and Fanny, with
her borrowed baggage near the foot of her
bed, had slept the sweet sleep of an innocent
maiden, without' being troubled by the ghost
of her quiet room-mate. .Everything had
gone on admirably, and she arrived at Mar
tinville in good season, where her father was
waiting for her in a buggy. He was surpris
ed that she had brought another trunk, for her
baggage had arrived early that morning•; but
she explained the matter, much to his merri
ment, and he ordered the station master (who
was also express agent and several other
things) to send the trunk after them in a wa
gon. This the ,man promised to do ; but
having taken two trunks up there that morn
ng, and expecting no more Jobs for the day,
his wagon was undergoing some repairs at the
blacksmith's, and so he could not promise to
send it much before nightfall. However, in
an hour or two, along came Silas Hoopes, a
peripatetic green-grocer and general vendor,
who for hall the ordinary fee offered to take
the trunk to Mr. Birch's. Ile was going that
way, and was always glad of an excuse to stop
any where on his route, even if It was not at
the house of a customer.
On the road Silas examined the trunk.
"Well, I - reckon," said he, "I never saw
such a common old trunk go to the Birches'
afore this day. Shouldn't wonder if Miss
Fanny'd been a-buying &insides up to Piny.
It's light, too. Yes, that's so ; I thought it
rattled when I put it in ; I don't doubt It's
shells, or a sewln'-machine. 'Tain't locked
neither—only strapped. They might as well
'a locked it, for here's a hasp' and all. I don't
expect It's much, any how, or it 'tul 'a been
locked."
A slow drive of a quarter of a mile now fol.
wed.
"0' course, there's no harm Just lookin' in,
when it ain't locked nor anthill. Every body
else Las looked, I'll bet."
Jutit alit tie ahead was a turn iii the road,
tut a large tree at the corner with a nice hit
f smooth grass under it. It was just the
lace 11)r Silas's horse to rest and cool off a
little ; and so the old man drew up there.
Then he whistled a little and looked about
him carelessly. Then he stood up and looked
around carefully. Then. he unstrapped the
trunk. Then he Whistled a few bars more,
and raised the lid.
On the other side of a pretty thick hedge of
cedar trees and blackberry; bushes was Squire
Curtis with his gun. He had been watching
for a shot, but when he saw Silas stop and
stand up to view the country he watched Si
las. Ile had long suspected the old chap, and
what Was he. going to do now.! "Oh ho !
open a trunk, eh I and not his either, or Ile'd
wait till hetillrot_homa _
So. softly the hedge 'came Squire
Curtis, and the instant Silas opened the trunk
the Simko had him by the collar.
The yell which Silas gave when Mr. Cohen
languidly stuck up his two attenuated legs,
which had been tightly doubled up in the
trunk, was only equalled by the snout from
Squire Curtis. The horse started ; Silas fell
backward out of the wagon ; the Squire stood
like a man of marble ; and away went the
wagon, At ith Cohen's legs dangling carelessly
over the end of the trunk.
"Whose is that ?" snit! the Squire, when his
voice came to hint.
",NEr-r.r—llireli's," chattered pour old Sihur. -
‘"l'llat's a lie," said the Squire. "Ile's not
lead, I know. What have you been doing I"
Silas then explained that lie knew nothing
but that the trunk was to go to Mr. Birch's;
and who the . "corpse,r was, bless his soul and
body, he knew nothing about it, but it might
go to—any place, fire nil he would touch it ;
and upon this he was for cutting across the
fields to la's home. But the Squire seized
him, anti (breed hint to hurry on lifter the
!terse and wagon. They Caine up with it Just
as it reached Mr. Birch's gate . • ' and as Silas
would not go near the wagon, t he. Squire hail
to seize the horse's head and Urn hint into the
-ard.
It is useless to endeavor to describe the
scene which took place ,in the happy family
on the portico upon the advent of Mr. Cohen.
Shrieks, fainting-tits, shouts to take it away,
and a general scene of horror and confusion
which had never been known in that part of
the country, was succeeded by the exodus, on
Mot, or in some one's:arms, of all the women,
and a council of the men. 'Sliaslold Mk - Story,
nut omitting in his fright his sin of curiosity.
Mr. Birch,. Who- -wed up stairs to ;question
Fanny, and only discovered that else knew
nothing, and that it must have got changed
oil the cars • and "Olt 1 please never mention
it again I Oh dear ! Oh dear I"
It was finally concluded to put the remains
of the "murdered man" in the stable for the
night ; and the Squire, who was the coroner
for the county, declared his intention of sum
moning a jury in the morning. That night,
however, Mr. Birch, who thought that Mr.
Durham might be able to explain this (though
how he knew not), sent the telegram.
When Cyrus appeared before the jury, told
the history or the skeleton, showed how all its
Joints and separate and individual bones were
neatly joined and articulated by means of
wires, and pulled from his pocket the, bill and
receipt of the skillful artificer who had prepar
ed the specimen, the 'jury found a verdict
"Died of some cause unknown."
Cyrus then repacked Mr. Cohen, and sent
bins by one of Mr. Birch's men to the station,
to await orders ; taking care this time to lock
the trunk.
Mr. Durham did not go over to his father's
house right away, but staid to supper. Fanny
was still very nervous, and he walked out into
the garden with her to explain it all fully ;
and he explained it all to such 1111 extent that
she agreed, before the conversation closed,
that when she travelled in the future it should
be with him, and they bolls should have the
scone trunks.
THE . GRAIN CROP---AT HOME
AND ABROAD.
A correspondent of The' London Times, writ
ing from Hungary on the Bth of July, says
that "if this year's production of grain proves
smaller, it is more than made up by the stores
remaining from last year, which amounted to
one-fifth of the crop.' l The London Telegraph
df July 9, in an editorial, says "the prospects
of both wheat and barley upon the principal
corn-growing areas of England certainly indi
cate deficient production ; our merchants and
speculators are operating In the northern con
tinental ports and In the Levant, and inquir
ing also in the markets of France. Large im
portations will be wanted."., The Mark Lane
Gagne of the 12th — says - the recent - brilliant
sunshine on that island "comes too late to al
ter the character of this year's crop, which
cannot by any possibility equal that-of 1898,
while the first gatherings. In France show an ,
inferior weight and greatly deficient yield ;
but oatspromise.great abundance, and the
quality will be Mccellent." Alderman Medd,
in a letter to The Times, dated the 14th, re
marks that "no doubt the four million acres of
wheat crop will be in quantity and quality
much below that of last year, and perhaps un
der average; but the22l - mUlionsaf acres of
permanent pasture, and the .ten .millions of
acres of root andgreets crops, will be very
greatly in excess of 1808." .AdvicesfiSm the
North-Western States indicate a large wheat
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harvest,hut in Northern Illinois and some oth
er sections the show for corn was never
worse.
The conclusion to Which all this information
may lead the farmer seems to be that we are
to have a year of cheap and abundant fond
everywhere. The California surplus was
never so large. It will be wafted dlbect front
the wharves of San Francisco to the Liverpool
docks. This, with what she cad obtain from
'the ports of ie Baltic and Black seas, consid
ering the largeness of her oats and root crops,
will prevent England from calling loudly on
our North-Western States. The Month, since
the days when Washington was a wheat
grower, has never come so near producing
all her own food and enjoying a wholesome
sense
.of independence of the North-West.
The. manufacturing States will of course re
quire their bread from the West, and the
West will be only too glad to furnish it at a
'price little above the cost of production.
It seems to us that 1870 will require nicer
and wiser calculation from the farmers of the
North-West. They. have been running coun
ter to some of the first laws of political econo
my, but their vast area of land, at once rich
and cheap, has enabled them, with the aid of
the cutter-bar and the automatic raker, to
avoid loss, and in some cases to win hand
some profit. The wheat-growers of Missouri,
Kansas, Nebraska, lowa, Minnesota, and
Wisconsin have been able to pay for farms
and farm buildings by rolling their crop fifteen
hundred miles to a shipping port, whence
much of it was transported three thousand
miles further. It is not in the nature of things
for bread to travel forty-live hundred miles to
a consumer. The Western farmers and mer
chants see that screws are missing in their sys
tem, and are consulting about it. Some be
lieve that a reduction of duties 'of the canal
navigation, and of the charges of railways
and elevators, would cure the evil. Others
propose St. Louis asthe great grain &niter, that
city to be connected through the waters of Il
linois and a canal 00 feet wide with Chicago.
The true remedy lies beyond. The farmer
who lives so far from the consumer of his sur
plus must put his food in some more conceit
tiltted form. Instead of sending such quanti
ties of grain to the Atlantic seaboard, the
I North-West States should ship East more
flesh and cheese, more wool and butter. At
present, substantial farming languishes at the
East because the Yankee cultivator says, "I
cannot compete with those men who plow up
a black prairie that costs than a dollar and
quarter an acre, and harvest a splendid crop
with such tools that one man can do the work
of six." There is another serious and lasting
mischief in this wide spread of wheat. It is a
royal, grain, and taxes the soil after it kingly
sort. When the Western surface is first in
vaded the settler finds a store of the most del
icate and precious plant food—potash left
there by annual burnings, phosphoric acid
front ages of antecedent animal life, and the
delicate but evanescent humus and ammonia
front decay of organic forms. At first this
teeming soil will give hint 35 bushels to the
acre, and, with wheat at $1.50, a few days'
labor to an acre gives him a return of, PO.
This is brilliant, and he asks the generous soil
to yield him her fatness again, and again, and
again. What must ibilow overyhody can see.
There is not in our national agriculture tisail
der Met than the rapid decline in the produe-
tive power of the Western States. For be it
remembered that inability to grow wheat
means feebleness for all the more important
demands upon a soil. A fresh surffice, admi
rable machinery, the derangement of a great
war, the South impoverished, Europe hungry,
have stimulated an excessive grain growth.
But there are reasons why the decline in the
price of grain will not be such as to alarm or
dishearten the farmer. The sails of emigrant
ships whiten the Atlantic Ocean, and their
decks were never so crowded. They all want
bread, and have money wherewith to buy.
Kansas and Nebraska have a market brought
to their doors by the Pacific Railroad. Where
labor la.not difficult to obtain; nor unreasona
ble in price, and where the expense of transit.
from the place of production does not swallow
more than a third of its value, wheat must
continue to be a favorite, If not the leading
crop with the American farmer. But the
area on which our crop; grows has traveled
westward too fast and ton flu•. Kansas and
Minnesota give too much stater: to wheat—
the Atlantic slope not enough.—N. Y. Trib
une.
~-THE AGE OF TILE EA ivri
Among the astounding discoveries of sci
ence, Is that of the immense perlode that have
passed in the gradual formation of the earth.
do vast were the cycles of the time preceding
even the appearance of man 00 the surface of
our glebe that our own period seems as yes
terday w hen compared with the epochs that
have gime before it. [fad we only the evi
dence of the deposit of rocks heaped on each
other in regular Strata by the slow accumula
tion of materials, they alone would convince
us of the long and slow maturing of (fiat's
work on earth ; but when we add to these the
successive populations of whose life the word
has been the theatre, and whose remains are
hidden in the rocks in which the mud, or sand,
or soil of whatever kind of which they' lived,
has hardened in the course of time—or 'the
enonneuff chains or mountains whose upheaval
divided these periods of quiet accumulation by
great convulsions—or the changes of a differ
ent nature In the configurations of our globe,
ns the sinking, of the ladds beneath the ocean,
or the gradual rising of continents and islands
above—or the slow growths of the coral reefs,
those wonderful sea walls raised by the little
ocean architects, whose Own bodies furnish
both thy building stones and the cement that
binds them together, and who worked so bu
sily during the long centuries that there are
extensive countries, mountain chains, islands,
long lines of coast, consisting solely of their
remains—or the countless forests that have
grown up, flourished and decayed, to fill the
storehouses of coal that feeds the tires 'of the
human race—lf we consider all these records
of the past, the intellect falls to grasp a chro
nology of which our experience furnishes no
data, and time that lies behind 115 HCCIIIH as
much un eternity to our conception as the
future that stretches indefinitely before its.- 4
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BEECHER ON• ARISTOCRATW
‘l'l'imerti are a great many persons that do
not want to be converted in a Methodist meet
ing ham's': there are common plain folks there.
They do not want to go where common folks
are. Bless their dear aristocratic souls I They
are going to surprise Ood with time beauty of
their conversion I Oh I t h ey, black as crows
now, are coming out, pretty soon, as nightin
gales or canaries, and sing in' heaven ;
and
Liad'is going to say, "What is that IVhat•is
that l" Men and women when converted aro
going to be furbelow:it, clad in silk and broad
cloth. It's so comfortable, you know to be eon-
Yerted under satin, perfamed,ringed,wristleted
leJweled and especially belonging to the "se
ct circles"—the circles where there Is more
selfishness than anywhere else ; where they'
use fastidiousness and privilege as a means of
mucking them Selves meaner nod narrower ; es
a means of large calking and stopping up evprS ,
outflow of large symmthy that connects them
with the brotherhood of man. Polito folks,
and fashionable folks—that only commit sins,
I suppose—are going to be converted on car
pets and elks and white cambrics, and with
opals on their fingers."
—An Irritable Tragedian was playing Mac
beth, and had rushed off to kill Duncan, when
there was no blood for the Thane to steep his
hands in. . The actor, however, not to disap
point the audidnce, clenched his fist, and strik
ing the property man a violent blow on the
nose; Coolly daubed his hands with what flow
ed from it, and re-entered with the usual
words, "I'Ve done the deed—did'st thou not
hear a noise?"
—"What do you think of whisky, Dr. John
sonP hiccupped Boswell, after emptying a
sixth tumbler of toddy. " said the doctor,
"hi penetrates my very soul (like the small still
voice conscience ; and doubtless the worm of
the still Is the worm that never dies.".
—How should the limbs orthelaw be cloth
ed 4—ln breaches of promise.
UPSTAIRS,
ALLENTOWN, Pd.
RELIGION.