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
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EDWARD ilurrussittin. 31. D. Cashier.
Till:WOMB:
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practical respects
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nrn able to
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large into front 10 too2llper rlotatter ditto do.
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SPRING ANI) SUMMER
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llen of Elio sem°,
White Goods Department.
Stviex and Cambric NthOlne. .d Cheek
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She .ling., Ticking., Clackc, Tablo Dnnm•k, Napkin
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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.
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It waaltes tho finest as well na the coarsoot fabric, In
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the finest fabric, when naed in aceordaoce with tits itt•
otructions. It is a firl'Eltlo SOAP, for the tollowiug
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'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
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lid. THE CLOTHES REQUIRE NO 1111'EIN 0, as they
are bleached every time titer era )curled nod drted In the
jury to lb.' it; trments•
fah THERE Is no ACID or SAL SODA used In its man
ufacture.
tah. The proprietors ;marmite, that there ix 11001111 g
It that can In au/ way Ituttre gat meets.
711,. It has a healing LIR, on skin dine Istts, such Be
woohing teller,
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long, thou with Ilia %traitor) too to use. the great wear
e totted by hard robbing is entire')
Rh. For washing prints and w ottlens, cleouing house ,
carpets, stewing. etc tutu
lath. By its floe yon save health, lime, money, labor.
clothe , and fuel
11 To ro” tuner+, IT IS THE CHE krEST SOAP MAN
UFACTURED.
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summer and st. lu e. darla the w mt. r (b)
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right of title wonderful Soap for lo high. Not th:unpb ot,
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to ot tonfat tore and sell the one, nod would lut.ite
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atteuthwit ceply
MY VOCATION, AND WHAT CAME
OF IT.
• I. 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,
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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.
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