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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
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City Notices. 33 cents per lino let Insertion II cents per
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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
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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
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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
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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!
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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
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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
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omit N l i t i o u t d l3 (1;1 In furnish drafts on the cities
A. ' :it. ' tIRIDGES, President
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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.
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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.
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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. . .