ADV ERTIBII3GRATES. ' at 1 mo. 9 mos. 6 woe Ipr. Use Bq 1.50 1.75 3.50 6.60 1200 Threeiare . . 3.00 3.00 (I.NI 0.00 20.00 Squares . • 4.5 ,1 523 9.00 17.(N) 25.1:0 SIX HqUIVIII... • • MAO 17.00 21,110 43.09 anatter . • 13.50 22.00 40.00 190.0) ilsif CONM. • • • 20.00 4400 fA 00 110.01 Ole Colamil : • 50.00 60.10 110.90 Professional Cards Xl.OO per line per year, Administrator's and Auditor's Notices, $3.00. City Notices, 23 cents per line let Insertion. 15 cents per line each subsequent insertion. Ten lines agate constitute a square. ROBERT IREDELL, JR., PUBLIgUER, ALLENTOWN, PA Coal ttnb Lumber. MILLISt FILBERT, OTTO dr. MILLER, MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN LUMBER, WLLIAMSPORT, PA. MILL ON CAN FFICEAL, W AT TUE M ILEST OF MAYNARD STREET OL W P CRANE AOllOl. 4 ang 70.1 T JAS. AL RITTER, CIIAS. W. ABBOTT. OWEN RITTER JORDAN '''' '' STEAM rauilaik PLANING MILL, S ASH, DOOR, AND BLIND MANUFACTORY, Union Street, near Jordan Biidge, Allentown, RITTER, ABBOTT & CO., MANUFACTURERS OF 'VIA, Doors, (Misfile Blinds, Inetofe Illinois, Mould- Inv, Bracket, Balusters, Pfcheli, Stair Roll ing,. Window Fromm Door Pelmet,. GlaFed IVindowg, Blotch Walittit Mouldings, Be. SCROLL SAWING, TURNING, PLANING, MATCH INO. FLOORING ord RIPPING, DONE AT TER SHORTEST NOTICE. ALSO, STAIR BUILDING done and HAND RAILING m Me to order. Having now lied almost three yearn' porrerrion of the refurnirbed it almost wholly with new and Raker , ed machluery, and having none hut experienced work man, wo are prepared to defy competition from at home and abroad, both in price nod workmanship. Do you contemplate building ? Call at our Factory and satisfy yourself with a personal eke:ninon.. Drawingr for boildingr, bracketri, patterns (or orna mental work, remits for porches, can be neon at all timer by calling c heer f ully Mike. Any informrtion to the builder furl:Belted and freely, by calling at the Menu factory_, on Union street, at the Jordan Bridge, Allen town, or by letter through the port Mare. aug 3-1 y) itITTER, ABBOTT St CO REVIVAL I The Pubscriberx haring leased the "Old !lope Coal Yard,' would respectfully an 1101111Cii to the citizens 01 Allentown and the public to general, that they hagejoal got a superior lissortineut of COAL Coueletlng of Stove, Egg, Cheetnut and Nut from toe BUCK' MOUNTAIN MINES. Order. left with A. A. Haber, Sieger St Ilotteneteln..l the Engle Hotel, Meru Nulling Mi 11... Ow Yard will be ettntaled to lu a BUSINESS like manner. Ordure for Coal by the car filled at short notice the lowest price.. Always on hand a largo stock of BALED HAY, which will ho sold at the lowest market prices L. W. KOONS & CO., at tho " Old flop° Coal Para," Hamilton Street. corner of Lehigh Valley Railroad I= L. W. KooTs oct Y A NEW FIRM NEW LUMBER YARD rib BUIDLERS! • ______ TREXLML & WEAVER • Would hereby announce to the public, that they have just opened a new Lumber 1 aril on tilo.ooll,olll.ooti COO - grounds so long occupied by TREXLISR BRO.'S on Hamilton street, near Tooth, north side, where they aro now prepared with a full minortmout of overythtug pertaining to the business. comprising lu part NELL.OW PINE. WHITE PINE, SPRUCHO num- LOCK PLOORING, WHITE PINE BOARDS. SCANTLIN 0 and PLANK of all niece and well etteuned. FRAMING TIMBER, Superior HEMLOCK JOIST and SCANTLING of assorted clean, CEDAR, CYPRESS AND W lIITY. PINE SHINGLES of HEMLOCK and SPINe7 V I ATIERING and SHING• LINO LATHS. and a large assortment of WEATHERBOARDING. al all thso WHlTe4nesA, E OK PLANK and BOARDS of ickn WHITE PINESPRUCE PALIN OS and PICKETS. WHITE rr ran. and t = it, TAL I OS WHITE 0 tK and CHESTNUT POSTS. Ac.. Ac. All desirous of purchasing Lumber to as good advantage is offered at arty other Yard in the county, aro request• odto call and examine our stock before purchasing else. where. Satisfaction Guaranteed in Quality and Prim The Senior tnember of the arnt would hereby express lib l ot hanks for pas res p ectful ly ors while a member of the firm of Teen Bros., and p WitiCila 0 COOllOllOOOO or lb, B erne, promising to apply his best endeavors to rondo eatinfaction to all patrons of the Now Yard. Respectfully, ED. W. TREXLER august 91 Silber I),ateb Marc KEEL K, 724 CHESTNUT STREET, el k 1 (SECOND rinou). PRACTICAL MANUFACTURER OF FINE 0 . SILVER PLATED WARE, Would respectfully ahnounco to his patrons that he line a full nlock of the latest styles of DOUBLE AND TREBLE ELECTRO - PLATED WARE) ALL OF HIS OWN PLATING Mated on Nickel and While Metals, suitable for family or city trade. As tho quality of plating can only he k nown to the plst• er, the purchaser mst rely on the tottuns state• meet; there being so u tench worthless ware Infacturer the ' market, all rept clouted as treble plate, at prices Impossible to be unr i T h rture: l l . Call gu K ,e o ,4„ 4 , r u n wrtl k te ed g ' s ' e S tis i iloU T p i lt 7 Cilaslng where. [FOLD WARE REPLATED.. may IS•17 earpct3 anti Oil Cloth RICH AND ELEGANT CARPETS, OIL CLOTIIS, &C. • S. C. FOULK. • NO. 19 B. SECOND ST., tVteot Carpet Store below Markel, Float aide, niZaetrtlecnattilo(V3lNT,l=Art:l7li'lratell Imported and Goode warrauted no repreaeuted that all coo bay with coulldeueo and sittlafactluo. no, v -ti for tbe JYarmer. for Pure Water, this celebrated Po: entirely tasteless. durable end relic. ble: equal to the good eld•fashiontt wooden Pump, at wet less than hal money Easily sr so as to be non. end In construct! Stunt any one cat keep It In repair THE BEET AND C pANCOAST & 111AULE, THIRD AND PEAR STREETS, PHILADELPHIA, PLAIN AND GALVANIZED WROUGHT IRON TUBES, • Lap-welded Boiler Tubes, Braes nod Iron Val yen and Cork s; Fittinge for flee, Steam end Witter; Bonsai and Finlebed tureen Work; • Clan end Strain Futter+ . Toole, etc. 'Beth Tabs and Slake, Beth !lettere, T Enamelled Wa h iitandn, ate., Colt; d ofrutt., le •• Stem Kettles no of Pipe of all Shea fitted to Sketch. SElcceliory. to MORBIS, TASK ER & Co.. an CONTRACTORS r the itit:tativv,eorl: 1411 , 1e t 1 , 33 , fLfif ., V 1 L9 0 1 ::3 e , 1:1 1 1 , t , 1 , 12 . ? a In Estimates Furnished Gratis. 32T ACCORDEONS,OON CERT IN AS Jews Harps. Violin Strings of the best quality to titled at C. Y. Wolferts's Store, flo. 601 liatallion VOL. XXV __- HENRY T. HELM BOLD'S COMPOUND FLUID EXTRACT CATAWBA GRAPE PILLS. Component parts—Finfel Extract Rhubarb afar Pinta Extract Catawba Grape Juice. FOR LIVER COMPLAINTS. JAUNDICE. BILIOUS AP FECTIoNs, SICK Olt NERVOUS HEADACHE. COS TIVENESS. Bre. PURELY VEDETABLE, CONTAIN IND NO AIERCURY. MINERALS Olt DELETAII:OUS DRUBS. Tile Pills are tile most delightfully pleasant purgative, superseding castor oil, salts, magne sia, etc. There is nothing more acceptable to tile stomach. They give tone, anti cause neither nausea nor griping pains. They are composed of the finest ingredients. After a few days' use of them, such an invigoration of the entire system takes place as to appear miraculous to the weak and enervated. whether arising (ruin imprudence or disease. li. T. lielmbold's Compound Fluid Extract Catawba Grape Pills are not sugar coated, from the fact that sngnr-coated Pills do not dissolve,but pass through tile stomach with out dissolving, consequently do not produce the desired effect. Til E CATAWBA ORAPE PILLS, being pleasant in taste and odor, do not necessi tate their being sugar-coated. PRICE PIETY CENTS PER BOX. HENRY T. liELMBOLD'S lIIGHLY CONCENTRATED COMPOUND FLUID EXTRACT SARSAPARILLA Will radically exterminate from the system Scrofnia.Syphills, Fever Nuren, ulcers Sure Eves, Sore legs, Sore Mouth, Sore Head, Bronchitis, Skin Diseases, Salt Rheum, Cankers, Runnings from the Ear, White Swellings,TutoOrs, Cancer ous Affections, Nodes, Rickets, Glandular Swot- Bugs, Night Sweats, Rash, Tetter, Humors of nil Kinds. Chronic Rheumatism, Dyspepsia, and all diseases that have been established in the system for years. Belng prepared expressly for the above com plaints, its blood-purifying properties are greater than any at her preparation of Sarsaparilla. It gives the comidexion a clear and heult liy color and restores the patient to a Mate of health and purity. For purifying the blood removing all chronic constitutional diseases arising from an impure stale of the blood, and the only reliable and effectual known remedy for the cure of Pains and Swelling of the Bones, Ulcerations of the Throat and Legs, Blotches, Pimples on the Face, Erysipelas anti all Scaly Eruptions of the Skin, and beautifying the complexion. E."DosAroaßT —IT HENRY T. HELMBOLD'S CONCENTRATED FLUID EXTRACT BUCHU has cured every ease of DIABETES in willeh It has been given. Irritation of the leek of the Bladder and Inflammation of the Kidneys. Ulce ration of tile Kidneys and Bladder, Retention of Urine, Diseases of the Prostate Gland, Stone ill the Bladder, Calculus,. Gravel Brick-Dust De• posit, and Mueous or Milky Discharges, and for enfeebled and dffilcateconstitutions of both sexes, attended with the following symptoms:—lndis posit ion to Exertion, Loss of Power, Loss of 'Mem ory, Difficulty of Breathing,Wealt Nerves Tremb liTufkr,rgePliiVlr,* ~)linii es of the Body, Dryness of We i Skill Erupuon Oil the Feet . , nand Countennce, Universal to de of the Muscular Syste m, etc. Lnxxl- Used by persons from the ages of eighteen to twentyffive, and from thlr4 . -five to fifty-five or in the decline or change of life; after confine ment or labor pains ; bed•wetting in children. Ilebnbold's Extract Ductal is Diuretic and Blood-Purifying and cures all diseases arising front habits I if dissipation, and of execs., t and lin prudencos in life, impurities he blood, etc., superseding Cobalim in affections for which it Is usedd Sy ph tic !et lon s—l n t hese diseases used , I n connection with F e Ilelinbold's ltuse Wash. I many aff, the Ex tracn M t ello Is ections unequaled by peculiar to tiny other ladiesremedy— as in Chlocusts or Retention, lrr egularlty, Pain fulness or Suppression of Customary Evacua tions, Ulcerated or Setirrus state of the Uterus, Leuehorrhost or Wh i les. Sterility, and for all complaints incident to the sex, whether arising front indiscretion or habits of dissipation. It is prescribed extensively' by the most eminent phy sicians a n d midwives for enfeebled and debeate constitutions, of both sexes and all ages (attended with any of the above diseases or symptoms). TIIOB. WEAVER f H. T. Helmbold'a Extract Buchu CURES DISEASES ARISING FROM IM PRUDENCES, HABITS OF DIS SIPATION, ETC. in all their stages, at little expense, little or no change In diet, no imlonvenience and no calm sure. It Causes a frequent desire, and gives strength to Urinate, thereby removing Obstrue tions, Preventing and Curing Strictures of the Urethra, Allaying Pain and In so frequent In thin class of diseases, and expelling all Poisonous matter. Thousands who have been the victims of in competent persons, and vv lo have paid heavy fees to be cured in a short, time, have found they have been deceived and that the " Poison" iIRS, by the use of " powerful astiingents," been dried up in the system, to brealoout in a inure aggra vated form, and perhapsafter Marriage, Use lIELMBOLICH 'ItACT RUCH U for all Affections and Bison 3 of the Urinary Organs, Whether existing in . die or Female, from what ever cause originating, and no matter of how long standing. P R ICE, ONE DOLLAR AND FIE TY CENTS PER BOTTLE. HENRY T. HELMBOLD'S IM PROVED ROSE WASH 'cannot lie surpasued as a FACE WASH, and will be found the only specific velocity In every spe cies of CUTANEOUS AFFECTION. It speedily eradicates PIMPLES, SPOTS, SCORBUTIC DRI NMS, INDURATIONS of the CUTANEOUS MEMBRANE, etc., dispels REDNESS and IN CIPIENT INVLAM MATION. lilVliS, RASH, mom PATCHES, DRYNESS OF SCALP Ol t SK I N S FROST BITES, and all purposes for which V MALE. 4 or OINTMENTS ore used; restores the skin ton state of purity and softness, nod insures continued healthy action to the tissue of Its ves t:obi, on which depends tile agreeable clearness and vivacity of complexion so MUCII sought and admired.. But however valuable as a remedy for I,xistlng &feels of the kin, claim to Wash has long susta s ined Its principle claim to unbounded patronage, by possessing qualities which render it a Till 1.1 , :1 APPENDAGE of the most Superlotive and Congenial character, corn bluing in an elegant formula those prominent requisites, SAFETY and EFFICACY—the invar iable neeoloplUilinentx of ItB 1150—its a Protervu, live and Itelrrsher of the Complexion. It Is an excellent Lotion for diseases of a Syphilitic Nit tore, and as an injection for lIISIALIWN of the Urin ary Organs, arising, from linbits of dissipation, used in connection with the EXTRACTS BU CHU, SARSAPARILIA, AND " CATAWBA ORAN.: I'll,lB, Ol such disenses as recommended cannot be surpassed. Full and explicit directions necompany the I edicines. -Evidence of the most responsible and reliable character furnished on application, with hun dreds of thousands of living witnesses, and up ward of 30,1X10 unsolicited certificates and recom mendatory letters, many of which are front the highest sources, including eminent Physicians, Clergymen, Stat'esmen, etc. The proprietor has never resorted to their publication in thn news papers; he does not do this from tile fact that his articles rank 11.3 Standard Preparations, and do not need to be propped up-by certificates. Henry T. Rambold's Genuine Prep arations.; Delivered to tiny address.' Secure front obser vntlom ESTABLISHED UPWARD OF TWENTY YEARS. Sold by Druggists everywhere . Ad dress letters for Information, to confidence to HENRY T. HELM 1101.1). Druggist and Chemist. Only Depot n: 11. T. HELMBOLDIS Drug and Chemical Warehouse, No. 594 Broadway, New lYork, or to IL T. lIELMBOLD'S Medical Depot, id South Tenth Street, Philadelphia, Pe. BEWARE OF COUNTERFEITS. /ink for lIENRYT. lIELMBOLD'S TAKE NO OTHERS august:l be If 11/roiitet. Iftebicittal. 100 TIIE GREAT DIURETIC IMRE .ffirtancial 7-30 GOLD LOAN • OF THE NORTHERN PACIFI RAILROAD. RAPID'PROGRESS OF THE ROAD The building of the Nort hem Paellie Railroad; (begun July lash) Is being pushed forward with great energy front both extremities of the line. Several thousand men are employed In Minneso ta and on the Paelfle roast. The grade Is nearly completed 966 miles west ward from Lake Supe rior; trains are running over 130 miles of finish ed road, and track-laylng is rapidly progressing toward the eastern border of Dakota. Including Its purchase ,of the St. Paul ft !Mettle (toad, the Northern Pacific Company now has 413 miles of completed road, and by September next this will be Increased to nt least 360. A GOOD INVESTMENT. Jay Crooke It Co. are now selling, and Unlresnatlngly recommend, as a Protltableand perfectly Safe Invest meal, the First Mortgage Land Grant Gold Bonds of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. They have 30 years lentil, bear Seven and 'I hr. -'Tenths per (felt. gold interest (more than 8 per cent. common- C)') and are secured by Mid and only mortgage on the exTilit: !WAD AND IV.; ItQl7 len ENTs, ••ild also, as fast as the road Is completed, on 23,000 ACRES OE LAND to every mile of track, or.7ooAeres for each Bond. They are exempt from C. S. 'fax ; Principal and .Ind crest are payahle In hold; Denominations Coupons, silXO to 41110): Itcalstored, MO In SlO.Pna. LANDS FOR BONDS. Northern Pacille 7-30'ff are at al( times receivable at ten per cent. above par, In exchange for the Company's Lands, ut their ',West cash price. This renders them prac tically Interest bearing land lvarrants. SINKING? FEND. 'rho proceeds of all sales of Limas are ;required to by devoted to the re purchase and cancellation of the First Mortgage Bonds of the Company. Th.! Laud llrant of the Road exceeds Fifty Million Ames. This I inownse Sinking Fund will undoubtedly reared the prin cipal of the Company's bonded debt before It falls due. With their ample seeurity and high 'rote of Interest, there is tko Invest ment, accessible to the)plo,wh left Is more profitable or safe. ENCH.I NU LNG tr. S. FIVE- T W.ENT/ES. The HIll,OSS•ir ltn NeW tifwernment 5 per cep(. Loan compel the early surrender of fulled Staten a per cents. Many holders of Five Tlven ties are now exchanging them for Northern Pa cific Seven-Thirties, thus realizing a handsome profit, and greatly Increasing their yearly M erlin!, OTHER SEerRITIES. All niarnetahteStlielts and 1101141,1 WI II he rf,elved tine highest ear rent price In exchange for Northern Pacific, Seven-Thirties. Express charges on Money or Bonds reeelVl d, 111)11 all SeVl`ll-rill' HUH Sent In ',Pim, will be paid by tier! Financial Agents. Full information, maps, painiblets. etc., elm' he obtained on applleatlon at any agency, or from the undersigned. For sale by JAY COOIiE A: CO l'hiladelphla, Nee• York, Washington, inunclat Agents Northern Pacific InCiromi Co. By HANKS n o t BANKERS generally Ihrongh ut the country. may 3-3 m ALLENTOWN SAVINGS INSTITU TION. Organized as " Dimes Saving institution," NO. 58 EAST HAMILTON ST., =I PAYS SIX PER CENT. INTEREST FOR HONEY ON DEPOSIT. This Institution, the oldest- Saving Bank In Eastern Pennsylvania, ham been in continnotts and successful op ration for ten years, and continues to pay SIX PER CENT. INTEREST ou ort mone fur ono year, nod special T . of In terost for sher periods. deposits of tuuney will be held strictly confi dential. Exeealora, Administrators,Trualees, Assignees, Treasurtra, Tax Collectors, and other cnntodiann of public or prlvato inoneys, are of fered liberal role, of Interert. Farmers. Merchnnts, Laborers, and all who have money to put oil Internet for a long or short period will End our Institution an agreeable and advantage°us one in which to do business. We especially invite batons to transact their banking business with an. MARRIED WOMEN and MINORS hove special privi leges granted by our charter—having full power to trans actbusiness With um In their own names. Money deposited with this Infttitutlon • IS SAFE AND WELL SECURED, by a Capital Mork and earplon money molly of over SIXTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, and addition. the Board of Trustees have.normloiled by t hunter, given bond , . under tne supervision of too Court In dm NUM of FIFTY THOUSAND DoLLARS, which bonds are regin. toned in and bold 6y the Court of Common liens of this county for the security .of demmitors, Our Iron Vaults tire of the mint secureand extenKivo kind known in thin country, as a personal hint - motion will nhow, and to which are invite our friends and customers. Wo refer to thin. believing that safe Burglar Proof Vaultn complete the nal'etyand reliability "fa good Saving Dank. WILLIAM 11. AMY, President. CHRISTIAN PRETE, Vice President. REUBEN STABLER, Cotillion Vatinvegat William lt. Alney, Ehrlstlno PrelF, treorgo ifrobst, MILLERSTOWN SAVING BANK, MILLERSTOWN,TEHIGII COUNTY. Thb, Institution Nvill be opened on or before 01014 day of April. Money will be taken on d , Poall all Rod in any Huron from ono dollar upwards, for which SIX PER CENT. INTEREST per tannin will be paid. Deposita may be withdrawn at any time Also, money outlet! out Oil be trm, J ARIES WEILER, Proridoit IFRANKLIN J. F. M. Shitrert, George Lud Frederick C. Voted, Christian l:. Henninger, David Donner, Nilllum Salitlity. !mac Orlobel, Gideon F. Egoor, Horatio T. Ilertrog, S enjamin J. Schnwer, Jalll,intana 'B ee r War likii[l FRANKLIN SAVINGS BANK, Located at the corner of Hamilton street and Church alley, In Lion Hall, arcond story, opposite the German Reformed Church, in the City of Allentown, is organized and ready for business. /t oval pay SIX par cent. In terra( on tell fleporits pt loveollOns It 'emits, for etrote pertoolof tillle, fold cu teeth:feet front the , (bar elf depoeli. 'Yo secure which, the Trustees of the institution lava Bled in the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County, under the direution of the Court. a bond In the sum of Twenty-live Thousand Dollars, conditioned for the faithn ful keeping and appropriation of 101 such sums of money as shal l to placed in charge of said FRANI:LIN SAVINGS BANE, whether asdeposits,or nhares of stork. which bond may be enlatited by the Court WhelieVer it may ho deemed necessary In addition to this, the Art of Incorporation nukes the Stockholders li/remit/ti ll I feeble , to thedepositore in dou ble the (1171111171 t of flee theyffeel Stock of Lilo Dank , which Ix tifty thousand dollars, wall Ilherty to increase it to ono hundred and fifty limurand del Lit+. fliers proVislo. will make it a very desirable and taro place of deposit. lin " Vpl7l; o " l3o " ap?tt e e t'trZeßrt w ill thin 'lip. A rraugenients will be made to furnish drafts on the cltlet of New Turk And Plalliclelp A hla N. . BRIDGES, President 1.1. W, W I I,SBN. Vies President J. E. MI:BERMAN. ()udder. TrtuderN : Daniel 11. Miller, S. A. Bridges, John 11011. en, .1, W Wilson, J. E. Zinimsruntu 11.11. Croltr, Deter Dress, Edwin Zimmerman. GIRARD SAVINGS BANK, NO. (Organized under a State Charter), EAST HAMILTON STREET, :it:AULT OPPosIT6 VIE COURT I101:01:. Monies received on deposit at all times from ono dollar upwards• Pays SIX per cent. Interest for . six months or longer , Four per cent. on doily balmier, subject to check at sight• (told and Silver, United States thank unit other Securities bought and sold— Interest collected ou meat Securities at fair raise. All deposits of money,will be held strictly confidential, and may ho withdrawn at any Married women and minors lawn special privileges granted In our charter. buying full power to transact busi• IRONS Willi us lu their own 111011141• This institution In a legal depository for monies paid Into Court, and receives money In tract from guard's., e .1 'Mu Int Num , . treasurers ' tax collectors and others. Ar4 , -'IIONE)i LOANEDON FAVORABLE TEusts• PIIAON ALDERIIIT, President. II a .IIARTZELL, Canbler. Directors—Phu. Albright, Jameo Y. Mille, Tllgliniari Mena. David Weida. Aaruti Lineation. FARMEIt'S SAVINGS BANK, Incorporated under a State Charter of 1870 FogeMille, Upper Macungie township, Lehigh Co. This Institution has been organised and opened under a State Charter. allnsi Eli will be taken on deposit - nt all Maea and In any taw from $1 and upwards, fur which 6 PER CENT..INTEREST WILL BE PAID It. 11. FOGEL, Cezahfir. Dr. H. A. Saylor, YAV,Afii . stranb, Dat.lel Moyer. David Peloq Jointsh "" f 1.4 C"'" ' h Ho W r lllimu _ Citrr 614 KETZTOWN SAVINGS BANK, (Organized under Blatt , Charter In INV.) • MONEY RECEIVED ON DEPOSIT. and d Per cent. ie crest will lie allowed. For shorter periods elmnial roles will he poll. Also. money Wailed 001 on FAVORABLE TERMS. Said Bank le knitted in (ho Replies.. House, In the borough Ili JOHN FOGEL. Preeldeut. EDWARD ilurrussittin. 31. D. Cashier. Till:WOMB: P. J. Slointh N. D., J. D. Warmer, Emq., David Flare, 11. 11. tichwarlt, Ertl W. 11. Fogel, Daniel Clader , Richard J. Itriorr. Joiras Miller , BLILDERS, LOOK TO TOUR. IN MUSTS. L. W. KOONS & CO. are manufactnrinc a hydraulic Cement Drain Pipe Chimney Flue and Ornamental Chum. nay Tope, cheaper and more durable than cny tabor Ig mama. 'They are made of Pure cortical aud mind, belon powerrutly coinpresartl, well reneuned, and aro In nil practical respects EQUIVALENT TO STONE 0111.1INEI - TUrS FROM ;125 TO +.500. Send for a circular, or call t a l at i exa . m! , n r e ,e n i t. ,, l n h a elr Lo o l ll a lf h e and manufactory, cornet or Ico Palley Railroad. June 1-t? 6 6 TIIE IIILL" INSTITUTE • POTTSTOWN, df ONTO ONER Y 00., PA. English, Chanukah, Scientific, Artistic and Commercial. Location admirable. Twentieth Annual &salon. Thor ugh preparation for College or Business, Fur Circulars, address Itrv. LIEO. P. MILLER P , noel .. REFERENCES—IIe. , Drs. Mehra, .6chaetier, Matto. Krantb. Huller. etc., etc Mous. Judge Ludlow Leonard Myers, J. 8. Yoat, IL hI. Buyer. Al l Itus.c Thayer etc. eke. Illy ALLENTOWN, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 26 1871 SHOT AND SHELL Never created mare havoc it an enemy'a camp than Our Last Price List HIGH PRICED STORES ! Make Money and Sell Goods so Cheap "MAMMOTH STORES." WE WILL TELL THEN First, haying I storo cent. nrn able to tinnyoo in large into front 10 too2llper rlotatter ditto do. fiec,ml, or Idrgoontibin uo to make money, oven though toe make but little on any ono article. SPRING ANI) SUMMER DRY GOODS. DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT Unn.nally nompleto In nth the I.aent uothy and novel. llen of Elio sem°, White Goods Department. Stviex and Cambric NthOlne. .d Cheek suet., Piques, Jackunets, etc. DOMESTIC DEPARTMENT ! She .ling., Ticking., Clackc, Tablo Dnnm•k, Napkin and Mtlies, etc. Men's Furnishing Department Cloth, Cacclinere, Tweeds, Cottocudes, &c., &c. Carpet and Oil Cloth PePartmen I Unsurprismea outside of New York and Philnth Curtain Laces and Window Shades Is entirely too extent:lvo to nanoternte articles nod privet , . 'WI , have In stock uener.ll assortment al Goads usual ly kept In n first-class nod well ronulnted stare . fall rod be COU eluted that we prove words by actions. Respectfully. E. S. SKEWER & CO., A NEW ERA IN WASHING! NO norhurn NO lIARD RUBBING! NO IloT lY ATER: NO WASHBOARDS! NO BLUE• INGI NO INJUR 1 TO GARMENTS! MONEY, LABOR, TIME, CLOTHING, h FUEL SAVED DY PATENT Cold Water Self Washing; Soap! This Soap la nue of the tao , l neefol luventiona of tio once: It waaltes tho finest as well na the coarsoot fabric, In cold. warm, bard, soft or salt water, without bulling ot machinery. and la gna.renteed not to intuto the textotP of the finest fabric, when naed in aceordaoce with tits itt• otructions. It is a firl'Eltlo SOAP, for the tollowiug reason., viz: Ist. This Snap, by Ito own action, dis,lsec the atte, and liberates the dirt In thegorment. gilled) and .o.tedit3 'iteVi"""tht!i'f L!'l‘ S pep nseti, except so hen the dlrt has to tit. ver) tight!) n the garmout. or it ham be , o Nen much soiled 2 I One good wahlu mouton, )vlten. (audit tr with It. on,, actoonolloh more and better V.with this Soap In the 50111.1 Mau than two women two of the hest machines, lining the ordinary ammo In the market lid. 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I said the words over softly to myself as I It was not strange that people should say I paced the floor. Through the half-shut door married him for a. home ; I was homeless enough when he took nip, God knows. Worn I cmuld ' e ' III" ' 3 Mg upon the sofa dimly outlined in the darlini ss ; but with a ray from and tired, too, with years of t.-aching. It had the gaslight outside falling across his white been hard—diarder than you can know. It face, and toneltng Its thin gray hair. Was had racked me, body and mind. It had tried there nothing I could do to help him 1 me soul and spirit; until at last I almost hated Then it came to nie,my vocation ! 1 the sight of the high brick walls and heavy could read. I had had a gift of recitation gate that made my prison; until at last I 111. from a child. At one time I had even given most bated the faces of the children ! All my some attention to elocution, with it ho; o of y mth went there, though I clung to it; all immething better than my dull school life. my beauty—if ever I had any. Nothing re• Other women took to the platform, why mained that could charm, unless it Was my should not I ? • Was it helpfulness for John hair, heavy and dark and soft to the touch. that made me strong with the thought, or was " Why do you not leave it ? Why do you it the sudden mighty uplifting of forgotten not marry ?" friends would question me. ambitions? They did not know—how could I tell them!— To some, prophecy. To some, speaking that I loved no one who asked me, until John with tongues. To me—this: : strange that I came. And then, though they had urged it should not have thought of it before! The upon me, they whispered among themselves German poem dropped from my lips and my that I hail married him for a home ! Perhaps thoughts. I went out, and kneeling down because he was years older than I. Perhaps by John, told him all my desire—my hope. I —I did not know. It troubled me, and yet remember how dark and still tho room was. what did it matter since he knew. How that one ray of fight touched' the. girl's So I left the school. The great gate clanged face upon the wall. I fancied it seemed less after me for the last time, and I could hav e sad to-night. Yes; I could help him. Surely cried with joy. Then I went to be Jollit y 's she must rejoice ! wife, and to take care of little Bennie ; for "It was a girl-dream of mine" I said a he had been married before. length, laying my hot cheek on his. "It was a At first I wished it were not so. At first it gift given me I never knew for what, until gave me a pang to think ofttlds woman who now." had been to him all I could ever hope to be-- j Be did not speak. Did it pain him that I perhaps even more. When he asked me to be had dreams unful fi lled ? Oh it must not 1 his wife,•ln the grave, quiet way that seeme " you see, John," I began again, "it is like even then so strong, so restful, lie told me —like-- Let me tell you a story, as though this. It was like him, the way he spoke, of you were Bennie: Once upon a limo there her—the young wife who had made his home was a little spring that burst out of the earth. so bright for a little time, and then had gone Oh, such a little spring as it was, dear! And away, leaving this little child. It was as I it was years ago. No one thirsted. No one would like to be remembered if anything saw it but one. SO this one laid over it a stone should lake me now from him. But I was and it, dried away and was forgotten !" was new in my great possessions then. I w Something wet lay on John's cheek. Oh, he jealous of invasion or prior chitin. And I must not think I was sorry at the sealing up cried that night when he left me because he of the fountain'! "And when it dried away had said, "It has been the one hope of my (tire you listening dear ?) even the place was lire to go away and meet her. Until I knew forgotten, because all manner of pleasant you, Esther, I did not think that anything but ' plants grew over it. Not weeds; but lilies, the child could hold me here. I should like I like these that bloom in our garden in the to stay awhile now, to brighten your life a summer. And heart's-ease. Yes ; most of little if I can. But Ido not ask you to help all grew heart's-ease, quite hiding the spot me to lorget her. Help me to be inure worthy where the little spring had been. to meet her." . "And after a long time the earth was dry Yes, it was a strange request, perhaps, and and choked ; but no one remembered the many women would not hove taken the little spring until a careless band—a little baud like he hail to oiler. But I Would rather have had Bennie's—pulled away the stone, and the that one corner than the whole heart room of waters poured out—a hood I Oh, John!" any other man. Still I did c.ly. When we I cried, "It is this desire of mine I Let me went home from the church where we were married, the that objets that nun my gaze was try ! there is nothing else that I can do." :Yo ( 3 , c l an b do ? But it must - not come on her picture. I knew it must he she, though I . had never seen her face. Th• tears sprang yo u . Only I Lila be patient o u soon i l l i e ow laagl ffa . vc Ony pa into my eyes. John saw - them. " Esther !" Bence, Esther. Yes ; it is hard, I know; he mid, and the tone or his voice, like his face, harder than doing ; but mine is a brave girl !" was troubled and perplexed. And then I I he said, stroking my hair. wi l . drew my head away. ' Something like sobbed. I, w this who should have been happy Ilfulnes s stirred in me. "Only wail!" I one day if never again 1 He was not impa- could not. I would not. tent with my childishness, as many men "John, I cannot 1" I wished the words back. Yet I would not recall them lie put would have been: lie was disturbed and hurt me aside,' and rose up. I could not see his iJnly—most of all for me. ' face, though he stood in the window. Ills You will not mind, in time," he said, baelt was toward me. gently,'" but now—shall it be hung in Ben. "So you have set your heart on this Es ale's room'. " '—"W sr Wait, John,nit.'' /lit ther ?" • ' • yes, John," I answered filial • blood surged in nd''hi tn . ) , tt I. ead,. It took ‘" when 1 married you I hope d a to make away my breath. I went away front him and your life all easier one than it had been." His ' stood before the picture, It W Ils a sweet voice trembled over the last words. "0, John !" I crept clo di to him. I laid young face, younger than mine, with that piti- my head against his arm One moment more ful look in the soft blue eyes that seems o ft en and I should have spoken. " I will do any a premonition of early death. John had told thing that seems best to you," I would have me about her. How happy and frolicsome said. He gave a little sigh. I fear with that 1 . 1 , e ,„ 1 , a 1 id l aw i r ay many hopes and all the plans as a child she, wit Am.this_was one of the ;lair:Low U ,k ment, poor young mother, I raismi gi e )M e gemt quiesaj, that she was to go away and leave her baby , 111 P ,111 Y --" es, dear; you! may try." and John ? There came over me such a pity - I clung about his neck, and laughed and fur her with the thought, such a shame of myselr, that I caught Bennie in my arms and I "Even if I have to go away from you a lit cried together. made a great vow with my face hidden in, me, John ?" He turned my face to where curls. hi s ! tie while," I said at length. " You'll trust w u n s ti l i m u t i l i t w . I "Trust you! 'I never u " qr g u l s 't t " We will go to her softie day, dear Julio,'' I j t i !i i e rw l i i t g ß l n dle o ll n o w n said,- 7 " Bolide and you nail I," and there was imy wife E, • newt anything more said about moving the I I And that was all he said. picture. 111. J So one night I made my trial. How it was I think Bennie did not seem the same to J brought about, no matter here. Helping me a l ter that. My heart ho warmed towards I hands for good or evil are always ready if one hint from, the first for Ids flutter's sake ; but ' but will'. All the dizzy lights blurred into one as I he was nearer, holier now—the little child bue crossed aie in the it t a d s a s ( t for t e r r or r.t‘ l i tl ll tl g e d i l i s o i t i l o din u f el heads iae 5% ilOlll God hall intrust ed to my care' while n its mother dwelt with the angels. If 1 could' My hands were ice. My jaws were locked. only do by him as she would have dote ! , The arm I essayed to move was held as if by It was such a kingdom—that old house ! I iron W he n the chaos bad slowly resolved itself I had laid aside any sceptre, but I had put on a I into cola expectant faces I could have fallen. crown: The street had crowded close against , I could have died there, hut for the t ager pain weights. . the door. The world could look in at the ,ed eyes that met my own, the worn face, whi windows. But behind it, shut ill by it calm- 1 t i !, t ' i r l l ' o t ,; , 7,ai ' o b j, e ,; b i l t r e e " , * , s ,, e ! w' o ei n i e . Wing wall, was an old garden With crooked I sslvi.tothlwdu.,nioat of him, of Bennie, and my mouth was opened. paths bordered by box that reached almost to I Then all the flush and warmth that I had my waist ; with a couple of mis shaper apple. I thought gone with my youth came back to me. trees that somehow outgrown the limits of ad I1:ifoellbefo re m websasclaz I moulded ti:inwwyhai ,; reatht i wtwtemthe appledrees until they brooded over the whole breath of life. A brief moment and It was over place. They bore it glorious promise of Wes. I —the hour of intoxication and triumph. Fol k soms in early summer, and later a scant frill- 1 lowed by the chairman of the lyceum commit tee. waited upon by-some of the di-:nitaries of lion, specked and sweet to the taste. Over the I wall and clambering upon the houses On one 1 r were cou rtly, gracious gen talli,letortovoninwln.ireholyhad read ,l retired to the side, woodbine and dainty clematis ran wild; I, tlemen and when John With his dear eager and under the shadow face the of the same old wall I all ' aglo fist t ime that stood in he thwase door wa bent yabout, I noticed the smell narcissus and sweet old-fashioned shoulders—that lie dressed in nu old fashioned , for pinta. way. And it was mine, all mine! my home, I " Alt, 3 - our father." exclaimed Niter oi the where John and I would live, please God, for gentlemen who held my shawl. wns long, happy years. Where we would die. something more than surprise in the stare that the words. It brought all that was When Ise haul gone away to his work, and followe d me to the s urface. I walked straight Bennie was building wonsleriol fairy castles across the room and put my hand Into ids!arm. upon the hour, I used to wall; the length of They hi ud" I g e o said fJoh as n Ill " It has is my ehusbandcon• , the low sunny rooms, repeating the words to gentlemejn,,ey tend to ratulate hint upon my success. myself. One, Dolly—my one maid—came g " Well, John," when we had left them and upon me suddenly as I paced the upper were mi our way home, I was not satisfied rooms., yet ; I desired that lie ,should praise me. " Did I do well ?" " Have you lost anything, ma'am ?" " Oh, very well ;•' and though we were out " No, Dolly, no ;" 1 said. " I have found lin the darknes s I was sure he smiled on n it." And so I had. I felt it in his 'voice, but my vanity still craved e I sewed or read or taught little Bennie when something you not surprised ?" more. I had arranged the atiltirs of my , kingdom ; Were Barnet: u you m u co t t i t i l a d t e o rb a , n , y a ; si t ting in a low chair by the window. Some- thing you I a tried." 1 n a . times the people hurrying by glanced in. I an echo of sadness to his voice. How could wondered if they knew that I was John's ' it he when I was wild with excitement and wife ; that this was my home—my vary own I j delig ht ! "Do praise me , John. Tell me that I was Sometimes when the schoohbell rang and the ! pretty to look at that I succeeded as no other children crowded the Sidewalk, mw, I would seeoman ever did ' !" And then I astonished to hear again the dull drone of the scholars him by bursting into tears. We were on the over their lessons. . Again with tired feet I train going home. The lamps over ourheads had flickered rail gone out. I hid my face on would pace up and down the familiar room. his shoulder and sobbed. There was a taste The world would narrow to those f sur high as of ashes to the apples I had grasped. wails, and life seem only a burden—to be Ile shothed me. ,` My good girl," he said. rolled of at last. Then with my face laid close I remembered afterwards how, when others turned my silly head with pralseof the beauty to Bennie's he would wonder at my sudden that came back to me, with praise of my tal -1 ents and success, I was to him "My good girl who Is trying to help her husband. Faint praise, I thought sometimes. But I knew afterwards that it was the one (inciter that held me, as it was the one reminder of what I had striven to do. Of course my home was no longer now my world ; no longer first in my thoughts oven I realized this with a pang sometimes. I saw John one day fingering the leaves of the Ivy that had made our , parlor so bright through all the long winters. It had run'in a kind of revel over the windows. It had perched it. self upon the top of the pictures, anti thrust its shoots out from every corner. It was dead now. I had forgotten to tend it. I made as though I did not see him when ho touched it, and when he had left the house I tore it down. I had no idea the room could seem so bare as It did when the grasp of the dead fingers was loosened. And yet no one could say that I neglected my home. It was well kept and orderly. Nothihg was gone but the charm of lovc, and that is—everythingl Suddenly, too, I re alized that Bennie wasnakx years Almost a man, I told him, So I did not hold him In my arms, or tell him stories any more. In. deed, he did not ask it after awhile; but when I walked the floor and read aloud, as I did every day now, he would steed away into n little form that lay quite still in Bennle's bed; a figure bending over it, the face hidden by the thin gray hair. I remember-no; I 11. Three years of the peaceful life that I had planned—then John fell ill. And, the door once opened, troubles of which We never dreamed flocked in. Ile was not likely to die ; but week after week lie lay quite still or crept about the house. Ile even gained slowly after a time. But he could not hope to work for mouths to come, and some craft of men, some wickedness of which I need not tell,. scented about to pull our house down about our heads, and make us beggars. Then, as if we were not desolate enough, peace Went. Icould not rest day or night for the 'question—what should we do ? What should I do? To go about the house day after day In the old ac. customed ways—to sit long hours pushing a bit of steel through endless scams ;—all this I did; but on, I was will with anxiety and harm. I had 'put Bennie into his bed and read him to sleep one night, as usual. Some simple story It was, forgotten now. I only know It touched my heart - , and bore me for the mo ment beyond my cares. When I had finished and the child slept, that poem of Upland's aided Into toy mind : There 14 n laud where beauty will not fade Nor sorrow dim the eye ; Where true hearts will not shrink or be dismayed And love can never die. remember nothing more It was pleasant, and soft and cool—this somewhere where I lay. I would open my eyes. Oh no ; not yet. I would think. My heart gave a great hound. The eyes opened of themselves, and there was John's dear face, smiling down upon me, and Bennle's little hands creeping into mine. I think I know how theson felt whose father met him while ho was yet a .great way off. Oh, when they put the ring upon his finger how it must have shamed his soiled hands! And when they hung the chain about hie neck how it must have weighed him to the earth! And when they set beloro him the fatted calf killed in his honor, how the first corner with some old toy held tight. In his little hands, and stare out at me with wonder ing, almost frightehed eyes. It Ivarl John who comforted him when he Was hurt in in these days, into whose arms he crept when the shadows fell nt night, while I—oh, I won golden favors of the-world. IV "Ilene Is a round ofengagements for you." It was the bristly. haired little man presiding over that place of destiny, the lyceum bureau, who spoke. I had called at the office by re quest. " But where?" "Oh, West ; the best field fur a novice. It is a six weeks' tour." Six weeks! I must think of it. I must talk It over with John. The agent stood before a desk, sharpening a pencil. lie cut it carefully but briskly to a point while I pulled at the glove in my hand, and did not speak. "Sorry to hasten your decision," In that rasping tone so confusing to women Unused to the sudden combinations and hasty con clusions of business—" but there is a lady in the next room who will take it if you do not. You have only to sign your mime here," designating the spot with his finger.. Ills words whistled through my head like the wind. I Was thinking my own thoughts. The desire to give it all up, to creep back into the old happy life, to be hid from the world, rose strong in me. There was' no longer any necessity for my work. John's I.otith had come back to him. Our troubles had flown away as they came. My pride fought with this desire. "Let me think of it arnoment." Ile shrug ged his shoulders, but With a " Certainly, m adam," returned to his desk. I was weary from my long walk. I was trembling with nervous excitement. For an instant everything in the room seemed rush ing 1 1. I put out my hand and clutched the window-sill. I leaned my head upon it and did not try to think. Only to wait until the roar —did it come tip from the street I—bad ceased. When everything was stilled—even to my heart—l said to it, " We will not go ;" and then there came a thought of him who butlieth a tower and coucteth not the cost— of him who putteth his hand to the plow and looketh back. I took up the pen and wrote my name. Then I came out into the street feeling as though I had bound myself with chains. 1 almost hoped that John would forbid my going. I almost hoped he would blame me when I told him what I had done. But he did ne' .der. I have thought of Bennie and of you," I said. But I could not meet his eyes, for mine would till with tears: Try as I might, I could not blot out the picture of John and Bennie here alone through all the long w.nter even ingti—of lite lack of comfort, the possible con tingencies of sickness and death But no; I would not think of it. I was called to a higher sphere ; I had answered the voice. I had put my hand to the plow. 1 would never look back. "There is Dolly," I went on, In the cold, hard tone of attempted composure that sounds so much like indifference. She knows my ways. She is faithful, and six weeks will soon pass." Oh, how endless and dark they stretched out before me, even as I said the words ! "Do you really desire to go ? There was a great pleading in John's voice. I hardeneo my heart against it. 'Yes ;" but the word struggled in my throat. "Because you know that you need not ; and —and we shall miss you. Shall we not, little man ?" He bent over Baunle, who leaned agiffnst his knee. ' - ginned Bennie in that without looking to children, and. "No ; „said John, lonely if does go." "She's gone away," reiterated the child, and he was right. MEI V. The applause still rang in my ears. I could Lear the rustle and tread of the crowd, the hum of voices Its it retreated. I had rend in the the ater of a Western city, and now in the green room awaited the carriage that was to take me back to the hotel. It was n pretty tiring•romu—fitted for some star, doubtless—all white and gold with lilies upon floor and hangings, with lily cups upon the chandilier that lit up the mirrors, where I could sec repeated again and again my weary face. A soft white shawl, nnu shed lace-like hend•covering, ii pair of gloves, a bouquet—l had thrown them all down beside me, and ly ing back in the depths of an armchair, waited. 'You arc tired to-night," said the gentle man upon the divan opposite, as he consulted his watch. • "Yes! More tired than I can tell," I answer ed, closing my eyes. Ile left me a moment. "It was a stupid mistake of mine," he said when he returned. "I should have ordered the carriage earlier." "Pray don't dist Orb yourself. It will soon come, I don't doubt." "If I could bring you any thing. Let me see, there should be—yes; there is some wine here." Ile unlocked the cabinet as and took out a decanter. I shook my head. John and I held queer old-fashioned notions. "But I insist,' he said; "you must take it. You are ill." Ile poured cuff the wine, I drank it down. "Strange that we Shotild have met here to. day," he said. "I've never once seen you since—Don't mind ; I forgave you long ego. I kept your letter ton—the tenderest saying of a no man ever had from woman." " Pray don't speak of it. Why bring up what has been years forgotten ?" My. face was warm and conscious, I knew ; though I tried to speak coldly. Perhaps it was the wine—it burned in all my. veins. Perhaps it was the flowers. How strong their perfume was I " Why not? I ought to have overcome any pain.l had years ago. And you—you never cared, you know." I felt his eyes upon me ; but I would not open mine. It came to me like the far.off stretching out of hands, that I ought to rise and go away that It was not good for me to be here. I tried to think of home. I tried to think of John, from whom I had heard noth ing now for many days; but both were vague and Indistinct. Nothing was real or near to me but the heavy perfume of the flowers and the face of this man watching mine. Ile had been walking the room as he spoke; as he came near now heleened over my chair. He bent down and touched my hair—the hair that John had stroked I started to my feet. There came to •1110 nt that moment such a vision of my home, such a vision of my husband—not handsome or fine in dress es this man; but strong and true of soul I—ns no woman ever bad before want to go Imam" I athered up the wraps lying at my aide. Th g e flowers fell to the floor. What were the sickening, sweet hinge to me? " And so you shall," he answered In a Ugh Lone as he hild his hand upon my shawl. - "I want to go home to John I" and this time I did not fear to meet his eyes. Ills hand fell from the shawl. Without a word he turned and led the way down the narrow stairs to the street. The carriage was waiting. At midnight I was on my way home. With my face once set, I could have flown, had wings been given me. I could not, bear with the slow motion of the train—the slow drag of time. Sleep I could not. Was It the wine that burned so like fire within me? that brought strange fancies as the — night wore away ? I clung to the seat, laughing aloud, as' we fairly bounded over the road. I could have shouted my delight as with face pressed against the window pane I watched the dizzy, spark-lit darkness rushing past.' Through all the next day I seemed to sleep and dream. Still we went on ; but now I had ceased to care. Some one spoke to me. It was a woman,' gentle-faced and young. Bennte's mother, I thought, and yet I knew she was in heaven. " You must be ill 1" she said "Oh no; going home—to John !" and then I slept again. It was dusk when I crept up to the house. When I pushed open the heavy door I did not heed the darkness within. It was a pleasant shad. I seemed to have been walking under a scorching sun, though my feet were crusted with snow. I groped about the rooms, search ing for something—l had forgotten what : I I stole up the stairs. There was a dim light, ROBERT IREDELL, JR Vain anb gancg Sob iprinttr, No. 603 HAMILTON STREET, ELEOANTPRINTINO LATEbT STYLES Stamped Check'', Cards. Circular/1, Paper Books, Cone tattoos and By-Laws, School Catalogues,. Heads Envelopee, Letter Heads Mlle of Lading, Way 111118, Tags and Shipping Cards, Poster. of any Ire, etc., etc., Printed at Short Notice NO. 30 morsel must have choked Lim! "I am not good enough to be your I sobbed; "let me take Dolly's place." But John comforted me. Rcribner's Monthly. All things change except barbers, the ways of barbers, and the surroundings of barbers. These never change. 'What ono experiences in a barber shop the first time he enters one, is what ho always experiences in barber Shops afterward till the end of his days. I got shay- . ed this morning as usual. A man approached the door from Jones street as I approached it from Main—n thing that always happens. I hurried up, but it was of no use ; he entered the door one little step ahead of me, and I followed In on ills heels and saw him take the only vacant chair, the one presided ever by the best barber. lt always happens so. I sat down hoping that I might fall heir to the chair belonging to the better of the remaining two barbers, fur he had already begun combing his man's hair, while his comrade was not yet quite done rubbing up and oiling his custom er's locks. I watched the probabilities with strong interest. When I saw that No. 2 was gaining on No. 1, my interest grow to solici tude. When No. 1- stopped a moment to make change on a bath-ticket for a new-coiner, and lost ground in the race, my solicitude rose to anxiety. When No. 1 caught up again, and both he and his comrade were pulling the towels away and brushing the powder front their customers' cheeks, and it was about an even thing which one would say " Next I" first, my very ''breath stood still with the sus pense. But when, at the final culminating moment, No. 1 stopped to pass a comb a couple of times through his customer's eye brows, I saw that lie had lost the race by a single Instant, and I rose indignant and ted the shop to keep front falling into the hands of No. 2 ; for I have none of that envi able firmness that enables a man to look calm- . ly into the eyes of a waiting barber and tell hint he would wait for his fellow•barber's chair. I stayed out fifteen minutes, and• then went back, hoping for better luck. Ofcourso ' all the chairs were occupied now, and four men sat waiting, silent, unsociable, distraught, and looking bored, as men always do who are awaiting their turn in a barber's shop. I sat down in one of the iron-armed com partments of an old sofa, and put in the time for a while, reading the framed advertisements °Call sorts of quack 'nostrums for dyeing and coloring the hair. Then I read the greasy. names on the private hay rum bottles ; read the names and noted the numbers on the pri • rate sharing cups in the pigeonholes ; studied the stai ne d and damaged cheap prints on the of battles, early Presidents, and volup tuous, recumbent sultanas, and the'. o tesome and everlasting young girl putting her grand father's spectacles on ; execrated in my heart the cheerful canary and the distracting parrot that few barber shops are without. Finally. I searched out the least dilapidated of the last year's illustrated papers that littered the foul centre-table, and conned their unjustifiable misrepresentations of old forgotten events. At last my turn came. A voice said : "Next!" and I surrendered to—No. 2of course. It al ways happens so. I said meekly that I was in a harry, and' it affected hint as strongly as if he had never heard it. He shoved up my head and put a napkin under it. Ile plunged his fingers into my solar and fixed a towel there. Ile explored my hair with his claws and suggested that it needed trimming. I said I did not want it trimmed. He explored again and said it was pretty long for the present style—better have a little taken off; it needed it behind, especially. I said I had bad it cut only a week before. lie yearned over it reflectively a moment, and then asked, with a disparaging manner, who cut it. I came back at hint promptly with a " You did I" I hind him there. Then he fell to stirring up his lather and regarding himself in the glass, stop ping now and then to get close and examine • his chin critically or torture a pimple. Then he lathered one side of my Nee thoroughly, and was about to lather tier the other, when a dog tight attracted his attention, and he ran to the window and stayed and saw it ont, losing two shillings on the result in bets with other barbers, a thing which gave me great satisfaction. lie finished lathering, meantime getting the brush into my mouth only twice, ansl_then began to rub in the suds with his he naturally shovelled botisitthrabindienerrott.. uty mouth without, knowing it, but I did. Ile now began to sharpen his razor on an old sus ponder, and was delayed a good deal on ac count of a controversy about a cheap masque rade ball he had figured at the night before, in red cambric and bogus ermine,as some kind of a king. Ile was so gratified with bring chaffed about some damsel whom ho had smit ten with his charms, that he used every means . to continue the controversy by pretending to be annoyed at the chaffings of his fellows. This matter begot more surveyings of himself in the glass, and he put down his razor and brushed his hair with elaborate care, plaster ing an inverted arch of It down on his fore- , bead, accomplishing an accurate "part" be hind, and brushing the two wings forward over his cars with nice exactness. In the mean time the lather was drying oni my face, and apparently eating into my vitals. Now lie began to shave, digging his fingers into my countenance to stretch the skin, making' a handle of my nose now and then, bundling 'and tumblin my head this way anti that as convenience in shaving demanded, and "hawking" and expectorating pleasantly all the while. As long as he was on the tough sides of my face I did .not suffer ; but when lie began to rake, and rip, and tug at my chin, • the tears Callle. I did not mind Ins getting so close down to me ; I did not mind his gar lic, because all barbers eat garlic, I suppose ; but there was an added something that made • nut fear that lie was decaying inwardly while still alive, and this gave me much soncern. Ile now put his finger into fly mouth to Its silt hum in shaving the corners of my upper lip, anti it was by this bit of circumstantial evidence that 1 discovered that a part of his duties in the shop was to clean the kerosene lamps. I had often wondered in an indolent way whether the barbers did, that, or whether it was the boss. About tills time I was UM it sing myself trying to guess where he would he 'nest likely to cut me this Um, but lie got ahead of me and sliced me oil the end or the chin before I find got my min I male up. Ile • immediately sharpened his razor—he might have done it before. ' I do not like a close shave, and would not let him go over me a second time. I tried to get hint to put up his razor, dreading that he would make for the side of my chin, my pet , tender spot, a place which a razor cannot touch twice without making trouble. But he said he only wanted to smooth off one little roughness, and in that same moment he slip- Tett his razor along the forbidden ground, and the dreaded pimple-signs of a close shave rose' up saluting and answered to the call. , Now dsoaked his towl in bay rum, and Slapped all over my face e nastily ; shipped It over as if a human being ever yet washed his face in that wily. Then he dried it by slapping 'With the dry part of the towel, as if a human being ever dried his face s n such a fashion ; but a barber seldom rub you like a Christian. Next he poked rum Into the cut place with hs towel, then choked the wound with powdere i d starch, then soaked it with bay rum again, and would have gone on soaking and powder mg it far evermore, .no doubt, If I had not rebelled and begged off. Ile powdered my whole face now, straightened me up and be gan to plough my hair thoughtfully with his hands and examine his fingers critically. Then he suggested a shampoo, and said my hair needed it badly, very badly. I observed that I had shampooed it myself very Slot , °uglily in the bath yesterday. I " had him" again. De next recommended some of " Smith's Bair Glorifier," and offered to sell perfume tle. I deeliaed. lie pred the new "Jones's Delight of the Toilet," and proposed to sell me some of that. I declined again. De tendered me a c ity of his own invention, and when I-declined, offered to trade knives with me. He returned to business after the miscarriage of this lust enterprise, sprinkled me all over, legs and all, greased my hair in defiance of toy protests against it, rubbed and scrubbed a good deal of it out by the roots, and combed and brushed the rest, parting It behind and plastering the eternal Inverted arch of hair down on my fore• head, and then, while combing my scant eye• brows and defiling them with pomade, strung nut an account of the achievement. of a six ounce black and tan terrier of his till I heard the whistles blow' for noon, and knew I was five minutes too late for the train. Then he 'snatched away the towel, brushed it lightly about my face, passed his comb through my eyebrows once more, and gayly sang out ti Next I" This barber fell down and died of apoplexy two hours later. lam waiting over a day for my revenge—l am going tenattend his funeral. —(ln tan. ALLS AV TOW N, PA NEW DEMONS ABOUT BARBERS. =l2
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