• ADV ERTIBINGRATEB, 3t MID. 3 mos. mos 1.60 1.73 160 160 1160 3.00 150 6.60 9.03 4.50 12.7 0 9.00 17.00 2.5. w. 11.6 17.00 2.1.(4) 413.0. 13.60 22.00 40.00 60.4 0 20.00 40.00 60.03 1110 9 30.00 60.00 110 00 210.0 Ono El,More nquares Threa Squares 81:1111.1111, . Quarter Column Half Column . Ome Column Professional Cards 111.00 per line per year, Administrator's and Auditor's Notices. 1 9 .00 City Notices. 33 cents per lino let Insertion II cents per Ins each subsequent Insertion. Ton lines agate constitute a square. ROBERTIREDELL, JR., PuniasuEn, ALLENTOWN, PA Coat anti Lumber. 1101.110 RT. B. OTTO. LH. OTTO. 0. W. M FILBERT, OTTO dc MILLER, ILLER MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN L U M B . E R . WLLIAMSPORT, PA. MILL ON CANAL, WEST TIFIE I T O.M HI H A RD STREET OFFICE ALL W F CRANE Amu 11. I AS. AL RITTER. CHAS. HI. AI3IIOTT. OWEN RITTER JORDAN STEAM PLANING MILL, SASH, DOOR, AND BLINP MANUFACTORY, Unton Sired, near Jordan Bridge, Allentown RITTER, ABBOTT & CO., MANUFACTURERS OF • S,ialt, Doors, Outside Blinds, Inside Dlfnds, Mould. lags, Brackets Balusters, Pickets, Stair Rail ings. Window Frames, Door Frames, Glazed Windows. Mark Mann( Mouldings, &r. SCROLL SAWING Tunri I'Le • m iNING mAt CHING. FLOORING unit R n IPPING. DONE AT TEN SHORTEST NOTICE. ALSO. STAIR BUILDING done and BAND RAILING mule to order. Having now had almost three yearn' possession of the refurnished It almost wholly with new and Iniprov• ed machinery, and having none butexperienced work men, we are prepared to defy competition from at borne and ab road, both in price and workmanship. Do npte building? Call at our Factory and gallery yourself with a personal examination. Drawings for buildings, brackets. patterns for orna mental work, scrolls for porches. can be seen at all times by calllug et our otter. m to the builder furnished cheerfully and freely, by calling at the Manu factory, on Union street, at the Jordan Bridge, Allen town, Pa.. or by letter through the p sot office. aug :1-1y) RITTER, ABBOTT & CO REVIVAL .! 'e subserlhers having leased the "Old Hone Coal Yard," would reqlectlolly aunonuce to the clOtenn of A I loutow I) and the piddle la general, that they Inorejust got • gaporlor aa.rttnout of • • COAL ••, ConsMOUsting. NTAIN of Stove, E Ngg,ES. Chestnut Bud Nut from toe BUCK MI Ordoro loft with A. A. Ilubor, Sieger A notional°ln, at tho Eagle 1011% Mope Rolling BIM, or the Yard will be nttOlitieti to itt IL BUSINESS like manner. ordere for Coal by the car filled at short notice the lowest Pric.`e. Always on band a large clock of BALED I-LAY, which will be sold at 11w lowest market prices L. W. KOONS & at tho" Ohl Hope Coal Yard Hamilton Street, corner of Lehigh Valley Railroad MEMIZENE 1,. W. Rn Is/ oct A NEW FIRM AND NEW LUMBER YARD TO BUIDLERS! • TREXLEit & WEAVER Would hereby announce to the public that they have just opened a new Lumber Ylird on the enaction and con- veniont gunds so long occupied by TREXLEILBRO.'S on Hamilton street, rwar Tooth. north aide, where they are now prepared with u full assortment of everything pertaining to the business, comprieing In part YELLOW PINE, WHITE I'INE, SPRUCE and HEM LOCK FLOORING, WHITE PINE 130ALDS, SCANTLING end PLANK of all altos and troll seasoned. FRAMING TIMBER, Superior HEMLOCK JOIST and SCANTLING of orted 4104. CEDAR, CYPRESS AND WHITE PINE SHINGLES of HEMLOCK and SPIfIN2 s iIdWERING and SHINO ',LNG LATHS, and a large asiorttnent of WEATHERBOA BO RDING, also all WHl thicknes seTE OAK PLANK and ARDS of s. WHITE PINE and SPRUCE PALINGS and PICKETS, stiperior to anything hi the market WIIITE PINE and HEMLOCK FENCE RAILS, WHITE 0 "..K aud CHESTNUT POSTS, dm, Sic. All desirous of purchasing Lumber to as good advantage as is offered at auy other Yard in the county, are request ed to call and examlne our stock before purchasing else where. Satisfaction Guaranteed in Quality and Price. The Senior somber of the firm would hereby express his thanks for pant favors while a member of the firm of Trex ler tiros., and respectfully solicits a coutiuunuce of the same, prpnlislug to aplily his best etalMtvers to reader satistactiou to all patrous of the NOW Yard, Respectfully ES. W. TRFALER august 81 Vaitcl3 SAMUEL K. SMYTH, 724 CLESTNUT STREET, tit 1 WYE I'RACTICAL MANUFACTURER OF FINE A . SILVER PLATED WARE, I= Would respectfully announce to his patrons that ho ham a fall shack °lll., 1at0.4 ctyles or DOUBLE AND TREBLE ELECTRO - PLATED WARE, ALL OF lIIS OWN PLATING Plated on Nickel Itml White Metals, sultablo for family or city trade. An tho quality of plating can only be known to the plat• Pr, tho purchaser must rely ou tho manufacturer's state moot; there Owing so much worthless worn. in Oho market, all repteseutod on troble plate, at prices Impossible to ho Mann natured. All his goods aro marked "S. K. SMYTH." Call and examine the goods heron to alma- VirOLD WARE REPLATED..E: jolly 11-1 Y Carptt3 nub Oil elotij. RICH AND EIXGANT • CARPETS, OIL CILOTLIS, &C. B. C. FOULK. NO. 19 S. SECOND ST., PIIILA., (Pitst Carpet Store below Market, East tido.) Invites attention to his splendid asnortment or Imported and American CA iti , ET6, which will bo told at 11, very small advance. (Mode wurranted am repreaouted that all can buy with coundeure nod antiaractlon. uo• V-tf for tier garincr For Pure Water, this celebrated I'm entirely tasteless durable and rolls• tile: equal to the good old•fnabPone wooden Pump. at :oat less than hal money. Daily ar BO ar to be non•! eud In construct! that any one cat keep It In repair, THE BEST AND CHEAPEST pIINCOANT. aC lIIMULE, THIRD AND PEAR STREETS, PHILADELPHIA, • PLAIN AND GALVANIZED WROUGHT IRON TUBES, Lap-welded Boiler Tubes, Braes and iron Valves and Cock, Pitting. ter flax. Steam and We e rl; , lo ti gl a in l githliV o graee Work Bath Tabs and bloke. kln ' a 1 l e nelled Mande, etc., Cell nd aof Tube; Steam Kettlea Tram. Pipe of all Sizes fitted to Sketch. Suceessore to MORRIS, TASKER & Co., AA CONTRACTORS For theilifotaVizeorr. 41,1111,!nug,%atraVil,g141:Atere.:fedVealo EstimateA Purnished Gratis. 7-30 GOLD LOAN OF TILE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD. RAPID PROGRESS OF THE ROAD The building of the Northern Pacific Railroad. (begun July last,) is being pushed forward with great energy train both extremities of the line. Several thousand men arc employed in Minneso ta and on tint Pacific Coast. Lite grade is nearly completed 266 miles westward from hake Supe rior; trains are running over 130 mllea of finish ed road, and track-laying Is rapidly progressing toward the eastern border of Dakota. Including its purchase of the St. Paul le Paefile Road, the completedac Comp y any now has 13 miles of droad, and b September ne 4 xt this will be inerensed to at least 560. A 000 D INVESTMENT. Iny Cooke & Co. are now selling, anti unhesitatingly recommend, as a Profitable and perfectly Safe investment, the First Mortgage Land Grant. Gold Bonds of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. 'They have 30 years to run, bear Seven and Three-Tenths per cent. gold interest (more than 8 per cent. curren cy) anti are secured by find nod only mortgage on the ENTIRE ItOAD AND ITS EQUIPMENTS, 'lid !ONO, Ati fast as the road is completed, on 33,000 ACRES OF LAND to every mile of track, or 500 Acres for each 31,0110 Bond. They are exempt front C. S. Tax Principal and Interest tire payable In Gold; Denominations: COIIIIOIIH, gins to 01,000; Registered. 3100.10 ;IMAM. LANDS FOR BOA - D. 4. Northern Pacific 7-ars are at nil times receivable at ten per cent. above par In exchange for the Company's Lands, at their lowestcauth price. This renders them prac tically interesrbettring land warrants. SINKINO FUND. The proceeds of all sales of Lands are required to be devoted to the re purchase and cancellation of the First Mortgage Bonds of the Company. The Land Grant of the Road exceeds Fifty Million Acres. This immense Sinkinot Fund will undoubtedly cancel the prin cipal 01 the Company's bonded debt before it falls due. With their ample security and high rate of interest,there ami de to the people which is more profitable or Raft.. EXCHANGING U. • 8. FIVE-TWENTIES. The success of the New Government sper cent. Loan will compel the early surrender of United States 0 per cents. Many holders of nye Twen ties are now exchanging them for Northern Pa c p ific Seven-Thes, thus realizing handsome rofit, and greatly increasing their a yearly in- COMO. OTHER SECURITIES. All marketable Stooks and Bonds will be received at their highest cur rent price lu exchange for Northern Inside Seven-Thirties. Express charges on Money in Bonds received, and on Seven-Thirties sent in return, will he paid by the Financial Agents. Full information, maps, pamphlets, ele., can be obtained On application at any ageney, or from the undersigned. For sale try 4 Rug 70.1 Y Philadelphia, New York, Washington, Financial Agents Northern Paeille Itadroad CO Ity 13ANICS. and IIANIC EItS generally through out the country. may :I•:tau ALLENTOWN SAVINGS INSTITU TION, Organized as "Dimes Saving livaitu NO. 58 EAST HAMILTON ST., (NEARI.T OPPOSITE THIS AMERICAN lIOTEL.) PAYS SIX PER CENT. INTEREST FOR MONEY ON DEPOSIT. This Institution, tho oldest Saving Bank In Eastern Pennsylvania, tins been In continuous and successful oration for ton years, and COlltillUeS to pay SIX . PER CENT. INTEREST on money for one year, and special rates of Interest fur shorter Periods. deposits of money will ho held strictly confi dential. • Exec atom Administrators,Trustees, Assignees, Treasurers, Tax Collectors, and other costedians of public or private moneys, are of fered liberal rates of Interest. Farmers, Merchants, Laborers, and all who have motley to put on Interest for a long or short period will find our Institution an agreeable and advantageous one in which to do business. We especially Invite LADIES to transact their banking bnsiness with 'us. MARRIED WOMEN and MINORS have special privi• loges granted by our charter—having full power to tram, act business with us In their I n st i t u t i on Money deposited with this - _ - R. E.'DONAriIIIP.T IS SAFE AND WELL SECURED, Ly a Capital stack and sarplun money eerily of over SIXTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, end addition, the Board of Trustees have, as required by t barter, given Londe under the supervision of the Court in the sum of FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, which Londe aro real, tered in and hold by the Court of Common Pleas of thin . county fur the security of depositors. Oar Iron Vaults are of the most bream and extensive kind known in thin country, as o personal inspection trill show, and to which we invite our friends and customers. We refer to this, believing that safe Burglar Proof Vaults complete the safety and reliability of a good Saving Bank. • WILLIAM It. AINEY, President. CHRISTIAN PRETE, Vice Preeident, REUBEN STABLER, Cushier. TRUSTEUR • William 11. Alney, -" Charles S Bush, Christian Prutz, John D. Stiles, F. E. Samuel., b.. ii.. 4uel Soli; J. limuoulutch George Brebst, Nathau Peter. MILLEBSTOWN SAVING BANK 3.IILLERSTOWN, LEHIGH COUNTY. This Inotitntion will ho opened 'on or before the lot dry of April. Money Will he taken on deponit at nil limos and In tuty rumor from urn dollar upwardn, for whirls SIX PER CENT. INTEREST per annum will bepald. Depoaltx may be withdrawn at any time Mao, money conned out on fay orlible te ARIES WEILER, Pr./Went SHISIER, Cue/der. J. F. M. Shilien, ne on( I. Ild Wig, Frederick C. Yobs!, Clirkt—) K. Henninger. David Donner, Willit n) l&lliday. laitac Oriebel, Gide. I. Eguor, lloratiu T. Ilertnog, Benjamin J. Schinoyer, Jamas Sinkmanter mar 16.6 m GIRARD SAVINGS BANK, (Organized under a Stato Charter), NO. EAST HAMILTON. STREET, THOS. WEAVEII. r Monies received on deposit at all times from ono dollar upwards• Pays SIX per cent. interest fur nix mouths or longer. Four per cent. on dolly balance, sutra to check at sight. Gold and Silver, United States lion 8 and other Securities bought and sold. Interest collected uu Governs' Anent Securities at fair rates. All deposits of money will be held strictly confidential, and may be withdrawn at any time. Starriest women and minors have special privileges (ranted in our charter, having full power to transact bust. seen with us in theirOWll Dn.!. Title Institution is a legal depository for monies paid into Court, nod receives money In trust from guardians,. sdinloltdrotors. treasurers, tax collectors and others. "a - MU:in LOANED N FAVORAIUIIT T , PrBLE ERSIS• I'I O IAUN ALBResident. 11 i..IIANTZELL, tout Albright. James F.. Kline, Tilghman Alerts, David Weida, Ann. Eisenhart. tot-9m_ FA.R3IEWS,SAVINGS Incorporated under a Stale Charier of 1870. Fogelaville, Upper Macungie townallp, Lehigh Co. Thin Institution has been organized and opened under in State Chaer WN EY will be token on depomt at all times and t o o u rotun from 41 and upwards, for NV hiCil 6 PER CENT. INTEREST Deposits may be withdrawn at any time. Mao mousy loaned out on favorable tering. WILLIAM MO Pre-stdrnt R. 11. FOGEL. CaAft,. TRUSTEES: , Dr. 11. A. Saylor, J. 11. Straub. Daniel Moyer, David Peter, Jou.", Rauch, Samuel Kul., "Mule' 11. Ural:, William Stela. Willlaln Iluhr Innr MO F RANKLIN SAVINGS BANK, Located at the corner of Hamilton street and Church alley, In Lion Hall, second story. opposite the German Reformed Church. In the City of Allentown, in organized and ready for business. It will pay SIX per'sent. lit tered! on rill depsits except business deposits, for any period of (bite, t o be ea /culatedfrom the dote of deposit, To pc.. which, the Trustees of the institution have Bled In t h e Court of Conitnon Pleas of Lehigh Count)•. ander the direction of the Court. a bond In the sum of Twenty•tlve Thousand Dollars, contlitloued for the faith ful keeping and appropriation of all such scans of money BANK`be placed in charge of said FRANKLIN SAVINGS whether ita deposits, or sheres of stock. which bond may ha enlarged by the Court whenever it tuay be deemed necessary. In addition to this. the Act of Incorporation makes the Stockholders personally liable to the throe (tors in dm, 1 ble the 'molt tif of the Capital Klock of the Bank. which is fifty thonaand dollars,. With liberty to inCreatte It to ono hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Then° inoViditele Will melte it it very desirable and safe piano of devisit. ,li'ltMY ho e":per, to nt tte that the de 0 1 s : 1 Le kart 010Utef{reft fedoestlruteciea4 l l ll this cifP• of A : LI:W . I v o li r t i r “t omit N l i t i o u t d l3 (1;1 In furnish drafts on the cities A. ' :it. ' tIRIDGES, President • I. W. W I LSO N, Vice President J. E. ZIM)IERMAN. Cashier. Trustees : Daniel 11. Miller, S. A. Bridges, John Hollem. '3. IV Wilson, William Biter, J. E. Zimmerman IL 11. Cult:, Peter Grose, Edwin Zimmerman. LUMBER! LUMBER 2S WHOLESALE AND RETAIL! STEAM SAW MILL, LUMBER YARD ! WHITE AND BLACK OAK HAW LOOS wanted, for nbich the hlghoot market price will he mild uPoo dopy ery. Ild.w July 12.11 3 ,fyrbitib .ffinancial. JAY COOIIE & CO NEMT orrosin: THE COURT 00080 WILL BE PAID HOFFMAN'S BE El KINDLING! BILLS OUT TO ORDER ! OFFICE AT THE MILL, FRONT AND LINDEN STS SILENT BILL I had been for nearly a year roaming over the West. In the course of my wanderings I came upon an emigrant train which was just starting out from " the States," and joined it. The novelty soon wore off and I found the days fatiguing, the nights and sleep only being desirable. I had been conscious for days of a fever in my veins, but had scorned to com plain., and taking a sort of savage delight in seeking to an extra amount of toil. It was my turn to prepare supper fir our mi so, but once ready I went off as far as I could crawl from the noise of the camp and the odor of the cooking.. The last I remember of that day was my dropping down by the side of some shrubs. Two weeks afterward I opened my eyes upon a different team from the one I started with, and the driver was the largest, most un couth looking man I ever saw. I was on a straw bed, made up on one side of the wagon, and In answer to toy call, the strange man bent over me. 1 asked all the questions' had strength.for, and then waited for the answers. He told the in the fewest possible words that I was missed from the train, and he sent back to look for me. That I had " been dead bent for two weeks, and had better keep still and and go to sleep if I could." I obeyed, because I could not help it. I re ceived my food and Medicine from the bands of my strange-looking friend, but it • seemed impossible to get any intormation from him. My recovery was rapid, and as soon as I made my appearance in the camp I was warm ly greeted by our company and treated to many an extra dish by the kind-hearted see• ple. I learned that 1 had not been missed until nearly noon of the day that I was left, and then they had halted, and " Silent Bill" had volunteered to look me up, had found me,and had taken upon himself the whole care during my sickness. I could find out very little about the man who had thus brought me back to life. lie had joined the company, like my self, at the last minute, had given only the one name, to which the boys added another, until he was called all over the camp " Silent Bill." His team was good, and he was well supplied with provisions, which he handed out gener ously to any one who had need. With my returning strength, I felt a strong interest in everything, and would gladly have been companionable and useful,. but he never called on me to do anything, unless some one needed help, then he would leave the care to me for a time. He was always ready to walk that others might ride; fatigue seemed unknown to hint. Foremost, when danger threatened was his gaunt form, and it was always his rifle which brought in the ear liest. game. It came about that lie held' the gratitude of almolt every one in the train, but loud thanks seemed to offend hint greatly. I never saw him hesitate but our ; then some children, two little girls, had been run ning along with their mother, and she asked him to lift them up into his wagon and give them a ride, as their own team was far be- hind. lie went up to one of them, laid his hand upon the arm of one, started back, rubbed his hands together and finally called to me. " Put them in, will you ?" said he I lifted them up and gave each n kiss as I seated them upon the straw. lle was still looking at his hands. " What's the matter ?" I asked, " both of them together wouldn't be as heavy as the man you bore to camp that day, only a few weeks past." Ile said nothing, but held his hands open before me. They were brown and hard. " Are they dirty ?" I asked. "Yes," said he emphatically, and shook them out at arm's length. Then he started up I his team and did not speak again for hours. All hearts became lighter as we ascended the Sierras and began to think of finding an abiding place. When it came to leavc.taking "Bill" was missing,the others started on with their teams, and I staid by his until sundown. Any num ber of good hys and kindly messages were left with me for him. And one woman gave me it little package saying : " lle was,so kind to Willie when he was sick, and his hand made that precious little grave on the mountains." I thought,.to know the full value of the gift, Bill should have received it, as 1 did, wet with the mother's tears. When he came back, we were alone upon the hillside. He asked, " Why didn't you go on with the others r 1= And I answered, " Because I did not choose to leave you alone, after all you have done for me. I shall go with you, if you Will let me, It•does not make much difference to me where." He looked at me keenly. " You had better not," said he slowly ; "you will wish you hadn't some day." We had started a tire, and I could see his face by the light of the blaze. I felt drawn to hint, not from any sympathy of feeling, but because I was convinced there would coins a time when I could in a measure repay him for his kindness to me. I reached out my hand, " We'll stick to gether a while, old fellow." Ile wouldn't take it, but said; "The kettle boils, we might about as well eat our grub as to waste time a talking." I gave hiin the messages, which were re ceived iu silence, and when I handed the pack age he only said, " Lay it down." We made ready for nn early start in the morning, then I rolled up In my. blanket, and with my feet to the tire Icy down to sleep. When I waked up the blaze had died down, but I could see Bill at adistance, bending over what proved to be a bole in the ground. After a w Idle he broke offseme green boughs, threw them in, and then hastily threw in the earth. Ile came and sat down by the fire. I watched him for an hour or so, but he never moved, and when I woke in the morning, he had not changed his position. 'We started off, but I made an excuse to re turn, and hurriedly opened the ground where I had seen him working in the night. I do not know what I expected to see, but I cer tainly was surprised. when I found under the covering of earth and green, the little package, which had tearfully been entrusted to my rEII2 I broke the string and found a smell copy of " Bunyan's Pilerim's Progress." "I will keep it," I said, "and when he needs me most he will need this too." • When he reached the first miners' camp, 13111 waked up and was eager enough until he had scanned the face of every man. That day lie looked weary, and it was the first time he laid down when I did for the night. In the morning lie sold his team, all but two horses; those he packed with blankets and provisionsomal we struck off down the canon, stopping • wherever any one was at work, 'and going out of our way if we heard of a solitary miner. • . . After a while lie left off telling Inc to leave hint, and I think the companionship made him feel more human. Once he stopped a week when I seemed tired out, but was restless and uneasy and declared "another day would kill him." "Tell me ;" said 1, one day, "why you will not rest.; 0114 life is wearing upon you ; you cannot endure half the fatigue you could upon the Plains. Let's take up a claim and settle down, or if you will go on—let rue help you ; couldn't I ?" " No," he answered, "and I believe you are holding me back. I have felt it ever sines I fir , t looked upon your face when ''found you half dead by those bushes I hat day. I wish I had left you to die." He sprang up and confronted me, "I will have no more of this, I shall go on alone, and don't you dare get between me and my work or His eyes fell before mine. " Do you think I em afraid of you, who wouldn't harm even an insect ? Haven't I seen you go out of your way rather than tread the life out 01 a crawling worm ? Shall all those months of unselfish care for nothing, and your hasty words make me leave you. Besides," said I, " I have a work as well as you." lie looked inquiringly at me. "Shan I tell you what it is ?" He sat down by the tire which he had lighted. IR," Keep still," said he, "for one month more, then you may have your say." In the morning when we started out, the air was heavy with smoke. When we reached San Francisco, after a day or two, we found there had been an extensive fire. 13111 was un wearied in helping build tents for the home less, and his money went freely to feed the starving hundreds, who were likely to find only a grave in the land which had promised them so much. I felt that I had never known hall of his genuine goodness of heart until those days, and I left oil watching him as 1 had done. We were stopping at one of the places dig incited by the name of " Hotel," and in those "early times" considered magnificent in the way of accommodations, quite worth the fab ulous prices which were demanded for 'them. But our parlor was the bar room, and our " room"a bunk, one of a dozen or so in the same apartment. We had been staying there Perhaps three weeks, when one night I was awakened from a sound sleep by the fall of some heavy body. 1. listened, but there was no repetition, then I groped my way to Bill's bunk. Ile was not there, though I had seen him "turn in" when I did. I took my hat and passed out through the bar room into the darkness and night. Drunk en men of all nations and tribes were to be met on the muddy sidewalks, their horrid ' oaths and obscene jests, muttered or shouted in half-broken language, reminded me ail a terrible description I had listened to when a child, of the abode of the lost. The gleaming lights from the drinking sa loons and gambling hells o illy added another touch to the picture. I hurried on, peering into every place where was light or sound, and I kept up the search until the first rosy tints in the East told of the coming day. When I came round to our hotel, I found I had been sent for three times, and was to re main there until tile messenger came again. I waited two hours, and then saw the bar-tender pointing me out to a Spaniard. Ile beckoned , to me, and, I followed without a word. We went through lams and by-paths, until I lost all idea of locality. Finally we came to a cabin, when he motioned me to come round by the side, then he pointed me to look thoingh a slight aperture. Two men lay on the floor, which was eoi:- ered with blood. I saw' at a glance that one was Bill, and the other bore the same face I had often seen in my dreams. I thought at first that they were both dead, but a low groim came from Bill, and I rushed to the door. I knelt down by hint and spoke. " I did not do it," said he, " but I meant to." I asked him no questions only if Le was able to be moved. " but never mind." We made a litter of the door, and by the help of some men the Spaniard brought, we carried him to our boarding place, I summoned a physician, who pronounced le wound dangerous, but not necessarily mortal. I watched over him, and saved him in spite of his own desire. He chose to die, but by my care he came slowly back and took up his bur- den again. • One day as I sat by his bed, I took from my pocket the little book I had found buried under the green boughs. I read two cr three chap ters aloud, then put it up without a word. Ile became interested; and I read on from day to day, as he could bear it until the book was fin ished The he asked; " Where did you get it ?" "1 dug it from the ground," said 1, Itteoni eally. lie held out his hand for it, and so it passek into his keeping. .When we became strong enough we took walks together, which gradually increased in length until we wk)uld spend whole days do Nu by the bay. 1 knew be would tell me his story when he could bring himself to it. Ile was WO weeks going over it, soMetimes giving me a single picture, and at another time unrolling whole. years like a panorama before me. His first remembrances had been of a hovel where ruin had left nothing but ruin. llad never heard a kind word, or had a kiss left upon his childish Nee, but h hated the mean ness and filth which au laded him and ran away to sea, whe ly fourteen years of age. When lie came back, grown to manhood, his, old home had been swept away by the tide of improvements, anthhis relations were all gone save one fair•lheaded sister, who might have been his idol, but she vanished out ()Phis life without a word of t'arewell, and fin• years he never heard of her or the man who had lured her away. The year that 1 met hint lie had been through the West ; lie couldn't tell what tor, except that he had made money and w anted to spend it. Vice and luxury were stlangeis to him, so his wants were few and simple. He came to a cabin, one night, land as it was late, asked to be allowed to stay ; tip man consented, and bade the woman provide some supper for the traveler. llis host went out, and his voice could be heard at some distance from the front of the house. The woman eyed him closely from a window, then Motioning to Bill; led him to a I slide window at the rear of the cabin, whisper 7 ed to Lim that 'twee only a mile to the next house, slipped a piece cif paper into his hand, and bade him run for his life. lie said he could not tell how it happened, but for the first and only time lie ran from danger. lie aroused the people, and was given a place on the floor to-sleep. Saying nothing about his adventure, he managed to read by the light of the coals the paper which the Woman had given him. agine his surprise when he found that he had seen his long lost sister,andth at she had sought to save his life by getting him away from her husband, who mistrusted that he had mmiey, and would not hesitate to murder him in order to obtain it: She said •she had witnessed dreadful things, but begged him not to try meet her, as his life would be imperiled. The next morning he determined to return and have an interview with, and if possible pomade her to accompany him. The house was closed, boards nailed up be fore the windows, and no sign of life upon the premises. Ile looked for his horse; that of course, was gone,and ho was about leaving, when lie heard moans. Again he listened, and traced the Bound to the window out of which he had es- Wind the previous night. Be wrenched off the boards and soon found the sister he sought, but she was in a dying condition. She bad been terribly beaten by the brutal husband ; upon her had come the full brunt of his disappointinent when he dis covered his victim had left. She told of terrible sufferings and crime, but death hastily closed her recital, and left poor Bill alit less Goan in hIS 'arms. Iln called in the only neighbors, within several miles, the people where he stayed over night. Together they buried the bruised and mangled body, and over the grave the brother voiced to revenge the life which had been sacrificed for him. lle heard of " his man" crossing the plains, and so had followed, nursing all the time the deepest hatred in his heart, never doubting that he should find hint, and then the end was lain. lle held up his hands. "1 have seen his blond upon them all the way," said he. "That night," he continued, "I could not j sleep, and som Thing whispered that he was not far from n . bo I went out and contin ued my search. 1 heard his voice on the street. I should have known it anywhere. I followed hint to his cabin and entered close behind him. I had something to say to him, and you know I couldn't shoot him down without giving him a chance; 'twant in me to do that. "But he turned upon me quicker that. thought and gave me this shot through my shoulder. My right arm dropped powerless, but 1 sprang upon him, and as we closed lie gave nie a stab in my side, his own pistol, pointed toward himself, went off, either by accident or design, I shall never know which, and we fill together On the floor. "That Spaniard carne in, attracted by the Tiring. I had helped his family to food and shelter, so I easily prevailed upon him to go for you, not because I thought you could do anything for me, but I did not want you to spend your time bunting me up. "The wretch died; although I didn't kill I meant to, so lam a murderer to you. My work on earth is done, and you had better leave now. I am afraid I shall get to care for you if you stay, and that would be foolish as there hasn't been any love in my life. I shan't trouble you with any more talk. I guess I have lost my right now to the title the boys gave me." As soon as he was able, we went back into the country and pitched our tent among the grand old trees. There came days when the hushed stillness brought thoughts of rest, peace and alMost believing. Under the branches where the stray sun beams touched us with light and healing, I told the story of Him whose blood can wash the deepest slain from Lunen hearts and bands, and into nature's temple came the great, in visible, loving presence which stands human as ever, though unseen—in our very midst, and whose coming into any life will lift it from its mire and ddliement, into the loss Paradise vi Lich lies about its everywhere. As I dwelt upon the wonderous love and compassion, hu asked earnestly. "Why has my life been so dark and loveless?" Alt, how many aching hearts have asked that, as they look back over dwarfed and thwarted lives. But there came a time when his question ings ceased, and he changed his lifelong bur den fur a cross. And for years, "Silent Bill" was known all tlirou;:h the mines and camps ns "The Big Elder." THE CANADA HORROR The London, Ont., Advertiser of the 221, says The Missouri tragedy, in Whiell a Milner was butchered for ten cents, is becom ing anon and more involved in mystery every day, and it would seem as if the detectives have been completely nonplussed by the strangeness of the circumstances connected with the horrible crime. It was agreed upon by all Wtor examined the scene of the murder that the reline was committed by novices, and in the most bungling manner, and it was also generally surmised that the murderers were not strangers to the place, and that they had not left the neighborhood. Three men were arrested, but there was no proof against them. Thin Thomas Coil and Priestly, farm laborers working for Mcgnain, father-in-law of the murdered men, were pointed at, and last night they were lodged in jail. Now today the hunt for the criminals has assumed a most startling aspect, the murdered man's wife, his father-in law and brotherdillaW being arrested for the murder. So far as we can ascertain the circumstances that led to the last arrests are as follows : the pistol found in the house after the murder, and which Mrs. Campbell stated had been brought there by the murderers, was traced to the store of Freeman & Co., St. Mary's, where it had been purchased, and front them it was learned that two such weapons had been sold Within a short time—the one ore the Ist of July and the other on the Bth. They do not appear to have any distinct recollection of the features or appearance of the parties to whoM the pis tols were sold, but generally describe them as a man and a boy. In the search for these parties it was dis covered by Detective Phair that a young man named Thomas Coil, in the employ of the elder McQuain, had been in St. Mary's on the evening of the eighth, and it occurred to the detective that he might have been the purchaser of the pistol. Other rumors as to a quarrel between the Meguain's and Campbell about money matters—the former being deeply indebted to the latter had served to raise a faint suspicion that the murder might have been the result of a family quarrel, but the idea was almost 100 horrible to be enter tained, and it Was dismissed from the mind With a shudder. Yesterday, on arresting Coil awl his fellow laborer, Priestly, Phair states that he was met by old McQuain with a tor rent of abuse—his anger being aroused to a tirrible pitch at the thought that the detective should east suspicion uPon his household. He said he could cause twenty people to be arres ted on better grounds than any Phair bad in his possession, and he invited the latter to I enter his house and examine the clothing for stains of blood. The abuse he poured forth, and the anger he exhibited, led the detective to suppose that his investigations were becoming too hot to be pleasant, and the suspicions he had previ ously half formed were strengthened almost to a belief. De brought his prisoners to the city, reaching here about ten o'clock, and was followed in by tho MeQuant's hither and son, and the widow Campbell. This morning the letter party, who appears' to be greatly incensed against Phair—as they say for his bungling in the matter, and also br an alleged Insult to Mrs. Campbell:— lodged information against him for attempting di take improper liberties with the latter while travelling in front Thorndttle and also while in the city. Mrs. Campbell's statement is to the effect that while cooling in with Phair on Wednesday last he engaged her in conversa tion and soon turned it in an insulting way, :it the same time endeavoring to take undue liberties with her. Site reproved him for in sulting a woman In her troubled' condition, and he desisted, but while waiting in the city to gilie tier deposition he renewed his advances in a more determined manner, and she was compelled to use force to resist him. This is in effect the statement made by her today, and on which a warrant Was asked for the arrest of Pink. About noon to-day, Phair put his suspicions concerning the family in shape, and lodged information which resulted In the arrest of the elder McQuain, his son, a lad of about seventeen, and his daughter, Mrs. Campbell, the wife of the murdered man. This mattes eight persons now in jail on suspicion of hav -1 ing hemeoneerned in the murder. TIM BUNKER ON PAYING CORPS. "Ye see, Squire, biters don't pay, blamed if they du. Ye 09e, Eve been rais'n"em nigh on to forty years. and T don't git nhpad a bit. When tat en+ ar,,. !.i,4), }e see, I len% got any; and when I've got 'em, which seldom happens, they don't bring any thing If ye sell 'em. I'm gettin' sick of raqin' things that don't pay." "How do you know they don't pay.?" says I. "Do you keep any account of expenses? Do you know what it costs to plow or manure, to plant, to how, to die, and to store ? Do you know what the crop has cost when you have put it down where you get your money for it ?" " Well no I don't keep an count in ritin', but kind o' keep the run on't in my head, and what a feller knows, he knows jest as well as if it was ritten. Ef I raise taters forty years and don't git ahead, it is pretty Rutin rtaintrt payin' business. No amount of ritin' would make it any plainer that they cost more than they come to." " Well, neighbor Prink, has any thing paid. on your farm? You haven't got ahead much." "You see, Squire, I'm here, gettin' pretty well along in life ; the farm Is pretty much paid for, and the stock, end the clothes I stun' in. Ef suthin' hadn't paid, I shouldn't av been here, for I hadn't a red cent to begin with." Thousands of people arejustin Jake Drink's state of mind. They don't know what pays on - the farm, and what brings them into debt. They keep no debit and credit with particular fields, or particular crops, or kinds of stock. They have a very indefinite notion that some things pay better than others, but they cannot hole the fox, big or little, that eats up the grapes and destroys their profits. They keep raising a great variety of things; some at a profit and some at a kiss, on the whole getting willing, and that is about all. Now, I know just about what Jake's potatoes cost him, and I will figure' upn little for his benefit and the public's: Plowing one acre, two dollars ; 10 bushels seed at eighty cents, eight dollars; planting, three dollars ; cultivating twice six dollars ; digging and storing, six dollars ; 8 cords of manure, twenty.four dollars—forty. nine dollars. The crop is 50 bushels of potatoes, of which 10 are small; 40 bushels, at eighty cents, aro thirty-two dollars, and the small potatoes are worth five dollars, total thirty-seven dollars; which, taken from forty-nine dollars, leaves twelve dollars as the loss on the operation. But if we take oft one half front the cost of the manure as left in the land, the account stands even and Jake has his potatoes for his labor. They arc all eaten in the family, and they cost in labor eighty cents a bushel. This kind of potato-raising does not pay much, as any one can see, and if the question is be tween raising thiscrop in this way and aban doning it, we had better abandon it at once; the farmer makes Nothing, and the land Is not Im proved. As most Eastern farmers raise corn, it pays no better; the crop costs mere than the price of Western corn brought ft thousand miles, and put down at their doors. "Lost twelve dollars, did ye say, Squire?" asked Juke, when I showed him the figures. "I guess it's true as prenchin'. Ye see, every tater iii that swabs rotted. I've been gwine to &nine it ever sense you knocked the hot. torn out of that hoss.pond lot, but somehow I didn't git up to it. Ef them had been sound, I should have had 100 bushels strong. But that's jest my luck. When biters are high I ha'n't none to sell." I got into the wayof ciphering on my crops quite early, and I do believe the tallow candles and the slate arid pencils that I have spent in this business, have been about as good a crop its I ever raised in Hookertown. It don't take a great while for a common-sense farmer to tell whether a crop pays or not. I raised last year a crop of rye, on a little less than three acres of land. The cost was: Plowing, six dollars; seed, three dollars ; harrowing, two dollars ; harvesting, three dollars; threshing, four dol lars and fifty cents ; total, eighteen dollars and fifty cent's. Sales, forty-five bushels of rye, forty-five dollars ; straw, fortyA:ight dollars and fifty cents ; total, ninety-three dollars and fifty cents. Deduct eighteen dollars and fifty cents, cost of crop, and we have seventy-five dollars as the profit.' This is about twenty-five dollars an acre profit. Now, if I can get 15 bushels of rye to the acre without manure, and can add ten bushels to the yield by putting on five dollars' worth of bone dust, or fish guano, to the acre, I can afford to buy the manure. The bone-dust will not only help the present crop, but will add to the yield of grass for sev eral years to come. It is a safe business ope ration for me to enlarge the rye crop on the old pasture. I can kill the briers, sweet-fern, bay berries, and other brush, and increase the grass crop and get paid for the job. If I take up twenty acres, and get only twenty bus'iels to the acre. I shall have 400 bushels of rye, worth as many dollars, to sell, or to consume upon the farm ; and the straw will be worth as much as the grain, at the present market prices. It can be done with the present working force of the farm, and eight fluttered dollars is an item worth looking at in the year's receipts of any small farm. Rye pays in Hookertown ; it might not pay where the grain was worth only fifty cents a bushel, and the straw was considered worthless. Then there is another little crop that I have found out pays better than rye. In some dis tricts there is a great outcry against sheep, and the farmers sell them for a song. Last Febru ary I bought ten ewes of a mongrel sort, hav ing sonic South-Down blood in them. They brought ten lambs, and the sheep sheared thirty pounds of wool. My principal object in get ting them was to help keep down the brush and briers in an old pasture. They ate before they went to pasture about half a ton of good hay. Their pasturing I do not count, for it has not interfered with the other stock, and almost any pasture improves where well-fed sheep graze. The chst of the sheep was forty dollars ; feed, ten dollars and fifty cents. The lambs average six dollars each, sixty dollars, and the wool sold for fifteen dollars —seventy five dollars ; nod the ten sheep are in better condition than when they were purchased. Here, then, is a return of seventy-five dollars from an investment of fifty dollars. The labor of taking care of them I think was fully paid for in the manure they dropped. The grub bing they do among the. briers will be clear gain. One of the lambs weighed 31 lbs., and sold for twenty cents a pound dressed, and the pelt sold for fifty cents. A. business that pays as well as this ought to be extended. Now, suppose I go a little out of Hookertown, where the people think sheep a drug,and buy in the fall a hundred ewes at, say, two dollars apiece--two hundred dollars ; add two hun dred dollars more for cost of wintering—four hundred dollars. If I put a Cotswold ram with them in November I secure lambs that will weigh 40 lbs. each and average eight dol. lars apiece by next July.- I shall then have with good care, which is the secret of good luck, 100 lambs sold for eight hundred dollars; and 300 lbs. of wool for one hundred and fifty dollars as the gross return for my Investment of four build red dollars. There can't bomuch dfscount on this ciphering, for the calculation is based on the actual results attained this year. You see it ,makes a great deal of difference whether you sella sheepas lamb or as mutton. If the animal Is worth six dollars at four months old, and only lour at eighteen months old, wiry should I keep it? In the ono case, I make fitly per cent. profit ; in the other I am In Take Prink's quandary about the thing's paying acall. It is a clear case that keeping sheep pays in 11obkertown. I want the old pasture grubbed at cheap rates. I have a good market for lambs right at my door. Mybeigh bore like lamb with their green peas, and are ready to take all I can raise. If the butcher's price don't suit me, I can slaughter the ant mats myself, undersell him in market, and make money by it. Ho knows that, and has his choice, Just as I have mine. The competition, if it comes to that, is rather a benefit to the public, as it tends to cheapen food. There is a good market for wool and for pelts. I have plenty of old pasture not worth over twenty dollars an acre. It might not pay if the land were worth two hundred dollars an acre, if lamb was not in demand, and if nobody wanted the wool, and if the Whiteoakers did not keep sheep that they were willing to sell, after shearing, at two dollars ,a heed. We must cipher more if we want to get out of Jake Frink's quandary, and find out what crops pay. Yours to command, TIMOTILY BllliKElt, Esq. Hookertown, Conn., July 15, '7l. The Romance of a Colored Walter's BEI Year after year Robert Jackson has been second waiter at the Union and head waiter at Congress Hall, but the careless crowds have not known that through his veins courses the proudest Virginian blood. Robert is a small well-made quadroon, fashioned, perhaps, in about the same mould as Stephen A. Doughis, for his head closely resembles that of the Lit tle Giant. His grandfather was Gen. Harry Lee,ol revolutionary light-horse cavalry fame and his mother was a slave named Jenney, a maid of Mrs. Lee. Soon after the birth of William Jackson, the head waiter's father, Jenney was sold to Colonel Stewart,of Frede yick county, Maryland. The boy William showed extraordinary intelligence,and became a pet of his master, and on the death of Col onel Stewart found himself free, by a clause in the will. William went immediately to Washington, where he had been many times with his master. There he !net John . McLean, Postmaster Geberal under Martin Van Buren, and a friend of his old master. Judge lie- Lean appointed him a messenger in the Post Office Department, at a salary of $6OO per antrum. While a messenger in the Post Office lle• partment William Jackson met a beautiful long-haired octoroon, the slave of old Judge John Stewart, of Baltimore. The slave girl's name was Rachel, and she came to attend Miss Stewart, one 'of the fashionable Baltimore belles, at one of President Van Buren's recep tions. Wllliam lost his heart with the dusky maid, and soon went to Baltimore to get Judge Stewart, who owned her, to consent to their marriage. • "No sir," said the Judge indignantly, "Rachel Is a slavemnd she must marry a slave If she marries a free nigger she will he run ning away herself, and, besides, I don't know when I may went to sell her to the New Or leans traders." " Then I can never marry her ?" " Never, until some body buys her from me," replied the Judge. Rachel was sent to the Frederick county farm, and thither William went in the night to hold a consultation with her. First it was resolved to run away. But there was no chance of success. The Fugitive Slave Law was in effect ; passes were required by the slaves on the plantation, and to run away was surely to be caught, returned, and then a dreadful whipping followed. " What can we do ?" sobbed Rachel. " I know," replied William ; I will buy you myself." " But you have no money." " I can work and earn It," replied the de termined lover. " Row much will you take for Rachel 2" lie asked of Judge Stewart the next day. " Well a thousand dollars will buy her," replied the bard-hearted Judge. William went to work—every cent was sav ed, he even going on foot into Frederick county by night, to see Rachel, where they held solemn consultation and hoped only for the time when he could buy her and own her and make her his wife. Think of that, mercenary beaux, heart less fortune-hunters • of Congress Hall— think of toiling night and. day, and then think of paying your last cent for the love of a woman. Two years rolled around and nine hundred dollars gladdened the sight of William Jack son. Christmas came. " What shall I give you for Christmas this year, William ?" asked the good old Postmas ter General of his trusty messenger. "Anything, Mr. Secretary." "But what would you like most?" Then William told the story of his and Rachel's troubles—how he was afraid she ' would be sold, how he loved her dearly, and how he lacked still a hundred dollars to buy her. The old Post Master General took off his specs, wiped his eyes, And then put- them on again. Then he fumbled in his pockets. "Five—ten—twenty—thirty," he counted, and then he handed William a hundred dol. bra!" Too happy to live, William started for Judge Stewart's. "Here,' Maiter John," sadi he with his eyes all aglow with joy, "here is the thous and dollars—now I want Rachel." "My God! William, you don't tell me so!" exclamed the Judge. "Why, I sold Rachel yesterday for $1,9.00 to go to Mobile." "When is she going?" asked William ner- vously. "She's gone already—went yesterday. She will be in Lynchburg in three days by boat." Broken-hearted and crushed in spirit W illiam hurried.back to Judge McLean, in Washington. The Judge heard his story. Daniel Webster and John C. Calhoun were in the Judge's room, and they both took a deep interest, "Let's raise the money and send William after," said the generous Webster. "Ile would be seized a dozen times as fugi tive," said the Judge, "and they'd sell him, too." "I'll send my private secretary," said Mr. Webster, and so lie did. There was no telegraph then, nor'cars, but the Secretary took the Potomac river boat, and with $1,200, contributed by William Jackson's friends in the Department, over took Rachel, showed Mr. Calhoun's letter, endorsed by several Virginians, bought her and brought her back. Calhoun, Webster. and Judge McLean saw them married the next week. Our bead waiter, Robert Jackson, afterward waited on Webster and Calhoun In their old age at the old "Indian Queen Rotel" in Washington, now called the Metropolitan, were in 'O4 lie met Mrs. Joseph C. Luther, a present llabitue of Congress Hall, on her wed ding tour. Mrs. Luther took Robert to Swansey, Massachusetts, instructed him, And in a few years afterward he made an engage ment at the Union Hotel. During the winter ho catered for those eccentric bachelors in Now York, Mr. T. H. Fate, Mr. Edward Penfold, or Mr. Robert McCrosky. Only the former survives. In 1808 Robert became head waiter at Congress Hall. Do caters for Now Yorkers In the winter at 200 Waverly place. Robert has perhapS the largest ac quaintance of any ,one in , Saratoga. He. ROBERT IB,EDELL, JR. Vain anb irancu fob ,Vrinfie; No. 603 HAMILTON STREET, AkLER TO WN. PA ELSOANT PRINTING' NEW DESIGNS LATBBT STYLI 8 Stamped Check., Card., Circular., Paper Books, Core tallow. and, By H -Lawn, School Catalogue.,lllll ll .adi Envelope., Lotter OW]. Bllln of Ladi WIIII Bl Tags and Shipping Cardll, Poßter. of any Iso, etc., etc., Muted. at Short Notteel knows old Presidents and scions• of royalty, knows distinguished sevens, poets, statesmen and historians. Ho lives in a beautiful vino clad cottage on Washington street, in Sarato ga, where the guests of Congress Hall fre quently call upon his wife, who is one of the neatest ,housekeepers in Saratoga.—.N. F. Commercial Advertiser. The price of a joint or steak it would seem must fall soon. The plains are swarming with cattle destined for the eastern markets. The inspector who counts all the cattle cross ing the Red River comingfrom Texas, reports that up to July first, eight hundred and twenty thousand head had crossed, and were now feeding on the plains preparatory of being brought east for consump - ion. It is rumored that "Biddy" Smith, Presi dent of the Cuba Telegraph, is in. London in connection with a new Atlantic cable enter prise. This would be good news. And now comes the story that the marriage of the Princess Louise with the Marquis of Lorne was not, according to late English gos sip, by any means the love match it has been popularly supposed to be, and the wedded pair are now far from happy together. Rumor has it that the Princess inherits her mother's quick and imperious temper, and the two women had such frequent quarrels that the peace of the royal domestic circle was quite destroyed. The marriage of the Princess and her residence elsewhere being the only resource in the emer gency, a certain number of young noblemen were selected and invited to Windsor Castle and the Princess required to choose a husband from among them. She obeyed, and her choice fell on the young Marquis, but there was no' more love between them than usually attends such business-like arrangements. The result has beLM, that the Princess's temper Is as bad as ever, only it is exercised on a new object. The exclusion of the Marquis from he royal circle, and the consequent separation )f him from his wife on state occasions, is said .o be owing to these conjugal differences, and not to any law of etiquette. ltds even re ported that not long ago the Queen was sent for, and went down to Claremont, the residence of the young couple, to prevent a complete rupture. PRE NEXT GREAT WAR Are war elands again gathering in the East? The note of warning is sounded in the Edin burgh Review : " A struggle IS impending be tween Russia and Austria ; it is inevitable sooner or later ; it cannot be averted." So alarming a prediction will certainly divert t- tcntioo from Franco and Germany to the movements of those two Eastern power% Both have been actively engaged in the reor ganization of their armies ; and though Russia has had the advantage of time, the declaration mdc by the Austrian Minister this week as to he colossal army which, under the new mill- tau system, he could place in the field, was not without significance and purpose. Austria, however, clearly meditates no ag gression, not even upon her late assailants, Germany and Italy, still less on Russia. Whence then the danger ? Russia makes no secret of her desire to encroach on her neigh bor and expand her influence abroad by force of anus, to make use of a propaganda for this purpose founded on a theory of race, to array the Sclave against the Magyar and the Austri an." Russia, according to the same authority, has resolved upon a campaign wholly different from that which culminated in the Crimean disaster. The opening of the Black Sea to her fleet is a feint, or at times a strategetic opera tion, to divert attention from the grand forti fied quadrilateral in Poland, whence, on the completion of the Russian scheme of military organization, Russian generals are to advance on Central Europe without risk to the internal peace of the country," thus bringing into practical realization the assertion that the ‘.‘ Eastern question can alone be solved at Vi enna in a Russian sense." Arc Russian inten tions here belied ? Too many facts come to support of these conclusions to remove all dis trust. The Porte, for the moment, is In favor of St. Petersburg, because Turkey is act first to be assailed, and a Turco-Austrian alliance —alliances being the great dread of the Czar— might interpose an impassable barrier to the Russian advance. Germany is soothed by the presence of the Czar at Ems. England is Ig nored. Yet Russian generals are unostenta- tiously manoeuvring their 650,000 men on the western border, whilst Russian statesmen arc exerting their utmost to avert a combination of powers against their designs, and to extin guish In the Western States the embers of an eastern policy which was doomed by the crowning humiliation of the Black Sea Confer. 13133 wrr AND WISDOM The ilc of man—Elbow grease. A Deep Scheme.—Sinking a well. Sleight of hand—Refusing an " offer." A nude departure—Adam and Eve leaving Eden Going to the Dogs.—Attending a coursing meet. The best wood for Making cradles—Rock maple. Absent-minded—To pay your fare twice on the horse cars. The fitting of a dress is said to be only a "mere matter of form." Some husbands, though anything but sharp, are awfully shrewd. She who can compose a cross baby, is greater than she who can compose b,oks. If Eve was a not a Fenian, she was at least the first rib on man.--(New York Leader. ••• It Is said that 0111 Sheridan was made an LL.D. on account of his knowledgeofcannon law. We are told there is nothing made in vain. But how about a pretty young girl—isn't she maiden vain. A baby who Itisseabis mother and fights his father, may be said to be partial to his ma and martial to his pa. Why do you suppose that France was cm for narcotics during the war?—Because she was always wanting other nations to back her (tobacco). "Don't beat your carpets," says a humani tarian; "try kindness and firmness, and, if that don't keep them down, send for a police- • madand have them taken up." A lazy fellow once declared in a public com pany that he could not find bread for his fam ily. "Nor I," replied an Industrious mechan ic. "I am obliged to work for it." ."Adversity," said a Western preacher, " takes us up short and sets us down hard, and when It's done with us we feel as con tented as, a boy that's been spanked and set ' away to cool." Mr. "Chawla Thawnipson" recently ran his head against a young lady, during a cotil lion, "Aw excuse me, deal,," ho cried; "did it hurt, ale?" " No, sir," film replied ; " It's too soft tc hurt anything." •• An Irish girl who plumed herself on being employed In a "genteel family" was asked a definition of the term. "Where they have two or three kinds of wino and the gentlemen swear," was the reply. A bashful young man was escorting a bash ful yOung lady,. when she said, entreatingly, "Jabez, don't tell anybody . yon beaued m• home." "Don't be afraid," replied he, "I am as much ashamed of it,n you are." That settled it. . .
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