ADVERTISINGR ATES 1 mo. 3 mos. 6 moo lyr 1.60 1.76 3.60 6.60 12. d) 3.00 3.60 6.50 9.1%) 204 4.00 5.23 9.03 17.0 0 26. 11.60 17.00 25430 450 13.80 22.00 40.00 '60.00 20.00 41.00 moo n 0.02 60.00 60.00 110 oo 230.03 CO to Ikhurea Tyr, Saaireb Tina SqUard ■ Dix tinctures, . quarter Column H. If Colniari . Oal Column Professional Miran .1.00 per line per year. Administrator's and Auditor's Notices, $3.00 City Notice., 20 cents per line let Insertion 16 cents pei ne each aribsodnent insertion. Tan tines agate constitute a admire. ROBER C IREDELL, JR., PirnmenEn, ALLENTOWN, PA coat ant( Lumber Mn= Union Street, near Lehigh Valley Depot, Allentown. BITTER k. 13 BOT P, MANUFACTURERS OF .Sash, Doors, Outside !Mods, rniide Muds, Mould togs, Brackets Balusters, Pickets, Stair Rail ingot Window Frames, Door Frames, Ac. SCROLL HAWINO, , TURNING, PLANING. MATCHING. FLOORING nod 11l PPINO. DONE AT THE SHORTEST NOTICE. ALSO. STAIR BUILDING done and HAND RAILING condo to ardor. . . Haring now hod almost five yearn' poemenelon of the Mill, refurnished it almost wholly with new and improo• ells machinery. null having none but experienced work men, we aro prepared to defy competition from at home nnd abroad, both tu price and workmanship. Doyen contemplate building ? Cull at our Factory and entisty youreelf with 4 penman] examination, Drawings for building., bracket., pattern. for orna mental work, scroll• for porches, can be even nt oil time. by calling at our office. Any Information to the builder fdralelted cheerfully and freely, by calling at the Manu factory, on Union - street, at the Jordan Bridge, Allen town, or by letter through the pool office. atm 3-Iy.l RITTER A ABBOTT. O. OTTO. M. OTTO. 0. W. MILLXI F LITERT, OTTO at MILLER, MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN LUMBER, W L ',TAMS PORT, PA. ::ILL ON CANAL WEST OF MAYNARI) STREET OFFICE AT THE MILL V F CRANE AOHX.L. 4 aug 70-1 y enrint3 nub Oil Clot RICH AND ELEGANT L2ARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, &O. S. C. FOULK. • NO. 10 S. SECOND ST., PIIILA., (Pleat Carpet Store below Market, East side,) Ihor Item itftentlon to bin apientPd asmortment of Imported and American CA !WETS, willeh will le. sold at a very small advance. Ouoda warranted no repreaented so that• all ran buy with confidence and imilefactlon• any 'MA( ' Spectacles. SPECTACLES I SPECTACLES EYE GLASSES, &c. an E d all kind" of CHAS. S. MASSEY'S, NO. 28 EAST HAMILTON STREET, ALLENTOWN, PA Sported °H g avindevoted a for grea these lent few yearn, I find that my bunion,. in that lino bon inereened so I. nob that I have de termined to maim it a SPECIALTY. There In no article manufactnred in whiob there in CO much deception prac ticed on there to In Spectacle Mennen. Knowing that the public have been frequently humbugged, by parties pre tending to have it nuperlor article of • and charging exorbitant pricer f..r .item, thereby WM:acing upon thane ...allies end infirmltien of age, I have taken Paine ti no ted a large end ciunplete awortmont of the Anent and bent Mennen ever Innunfactured, thus affording all at needing Spectaclen nu opportunity of pnrchusing at rea• ennoble pricen. Permute booing any difficulty In being united elnewhere will do well to give me call, on I feel o ld that no one will tell to be commit. Remember the old intend. No. TI End Hamilton tureet, oppoelte the fier. m anlxnd. Rohn toed Church, Allentown, Pa. Jan T.I tf Elothingi GREAT ATTRACTION I • NEW FIRM! NEW GOODS! CLOTHING ! CLOTHING GRAND SPRING AND SUMMER OPENING• 'GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICE' , 1 T. OS \I UN & CO., SPIerINNIMI to Mari/err Osntn• BARGAINS AT TIM GREAT CLOTHING EMPORIUM IN REIMER'S BUILDING. NO. 605 HAMILTON STREET, ALLENTOWN, PA. Vo would inform the citizen. of Allentown and the sur rounding Country tb: t we are Prepared with a large stock of goods for FA LL AND WINTER WEAR, and offer theta to the public at resaouttbleprigen• To those TAO buy their Clothing rt.ady•tnatle, they nee prepared to offer BARGAINS. WHOLE SUITS MADE TO ORDER! COATS, PANTS AND VESTS Cat and madeln thelateat style, tunny thebent workmen: OUR STOCK OF CLOTHING, CLOTHS .AND CASSIMERES In larger thus It has hen before, ar.d.we Intend to sell at very S3IALL PROFITS, and coo our customers the bone. fit of our low purchases. Great Quantities and varieties of NECKTIES, CUFFS, COLLARS, And everything In the line of GE'NT'S.FURNISHING GOODS, MEN'S, YOUTHS', BOYS' and CHILDREN El REA DY—M ADE; CLOTHING, CONSTANTLY ON BAND. ItaMorgrce, No. Oa' Ilenilton street, thin) door.utgi street. T. Osmrtx. J scon It. Scuola. Morin Lux mar 24 if HurroN & II'OONNELL, FURNITURE WAREICOOMS, lA N NO. 80NI A I; KET STREET, W l ' North Side PHILADELPHIA. PARLOR, DINING-ROOM, CHAAIBER FURNITURE Of the Latest Styles and Best Manufacture. ALSO, Feather Beds and Mattresses. IMEEM CONSHOHOCKEN 1301 LER AND COIL WORKS, JOHN WOOD, JR., TOM FI.UR AND OTLINDER BOILERS ,RATS AND STEAM CIRCULATING BOILERS. All kindx of Wrought Iron Collo, Tuyera for Bloat Fur. Dare. liu. ou titooko Clocks, Blast Piper, Iron Wheel. harrows, nu l l ivory thing in the Boiler and Sheet Iron Alan, all klutia of iron and Steal Forgiugx and Blackmun!. work, kllnera' Tools of all !Linda, ouch as When, Duckett!, Drill, Melietx , !Bedizen, .be. Having Clean. Bloomer mol art of toola of all kintlit and Men•d workmen. I flatter myself that 1 ran torn out work with Prot:quiteon and diepoteh, oil of which will b, warranted to be lirst•cione. Pc hing Dollars, sail repalrlng generally, Filially at wade at d 10. anis 17 MORE Popular than any Other I •ALWAY ON THE LEAD, The Glory of the Morning and An) Other Time. The Celrl rated Me tug Olury Stover ore unnefactur d thin year le greater "an, tL lox Obte ever beton., to wool t].3 grout emaud fey n Oros clite, stow. They ore .1d by WM. G. RITTER. DEALER IN ;TOY & TIN )\I A RE, 831 Hamilton SI., Allentown. Tiselvo hundred or these Stoves hove been solo In thlv county dorloo thy ploo live sear-, every one of which Dos given unhnillea mallstsctlon, witch Is the hest canons tnandation they need • Aiwi t ), on howl oil Lhido Of litovos,Ronizon. Fornocen, Grates. Tin and ol.ret-lion Witte• A large •arlety of to t.:ere Cook Stoves, ouch al • THE ItEGULATOE. whir Revolving Top, HOT BLASTlilMolt SPEAR'S ANTLIWs r rim]: ALL RIGHT • CoLli c DAL, ETC. • Also, a largo YArlety of the tout approved po t tin g bta•eli. 0e..2.1-Nr To Lur._Frntn film of April, the well known,lang 1,4041.11. A nod iincre”fitlQuei.n.wiir.• Ftoro. No. Oillltuo ttitiet, now occupied b) Hllllum Helmer, with or without thu dwelling. A 144114/. 431 LINDEN FT. VOL. XXVI FURS ! CHAS. W. ABBOTT. LADIES, It yott a w n to n t . Lo i b re nt ia F i r ,;, to re l o o t !ho well•know W. KEINATH, Importer and Exporter of Furs, 710 ARCH STREET, (OPPOSITE ST. CLOUD HOTEL,) PHILADELPHIA, Where you have the selection from the mast extensive axsortmeut of all descriptions at the lowest ILlUM fncturlug prices. Sets from $5.00 up to the moat Costly Russian Crown Sable HUDSON BAY and MINK SABE. ERMINE, CHINCHILLA. SQUIRREL, and every en. riety of the latest styles SA ODES ofS..al Skin, Persian. and Astrachan. ALL KINDS OF FUR TRISISJINO, ' Also the finest assortment of FANCY ROBES, WHITE FOX. BEAVER. WHITE POLAR and BLACK BEAR, HUDSON BAY WOLF, Sc. ALL 000D8 WARRANTED AS REPRESENTED. CALL BEFORE PURCHASING ELSEWHERE 5% K 710 Areh Street,. Philadelphia. novlri.stn es A LtinTOAN ROLLING MILL G 0 Successurm to TUAYER, ERDMAN. WILSON & CO., STEAM ENGINES AND BOILERS, RAILROAD TURN TABLES MILL GEARING, SHAP FT:NG, Furnace, Rolling Milt and -Vining N. work guaranteed and delivery prompt. L. H. GROSS, Sup't =ME= D'ILMINGTON AND READING SEVEN PER CENT, BONDS, We are offering theSecood Elortgage bond, of this Corn Parry AT 85 AND ACCRUED INTEREST, nterest Payable January and July. 1000 a, 500 a, and 100 s, And can he REO ISTERED free of expo.° ad The coal. mlscellaceon9, frelghla nod 'manager hunl eee are e..nNixotly Incre.elow. The rerelpw for lho year %riding oclobe. 31.1071. were 479.778 Z). more than the year riding Oetob•r 1070. The Inc ...tee for November,l67l, .ver November, 1570. won $1.160.7.1. Bond , , Pompbleto and Information can be obtained of DE HAVEN & BRO., No. 40 SOUTII THIRD STREET, CE9813 fi NUFACTURERS, DEALERS & IMPORTERS Iron, Sleet, Hardware. Railway Stipp Lubrlcnt (nu Ms, While Lead, Bic., 15 INVITED TO TILE RON WORLD AND MANUFACTURER, TUE Largest Metal. Price Current IN TUE WORLD. - • ~ ,• ^ ' Y. :,:i.,,,..:17, - " *, , -,•5ONr - , '.. - .: 4 7„: 4 ,i . M . ; 1 , ~ilAte,: -14 ~..-.,... .. 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ACCURATE QUOTATIONS ♦xD REPORTS OP THITLEADIRO MORE ♦ND FOREIGN MARKETS. The beet Talent If Employed, and in Contente. Paper and Typographical Appearance, Second to None. Locuted lu the very centre of the metal Interest!, of the Culled •tates with corra . spendents at the leading elite. of the East, Wept and Somb, we do not orr la claiming that it Is the IttPRIMINT•TIVIt JOURN•n of the Metal Alauufsters. Workers and Dealers of this coury. nioutnat for machinists and metal workers it has ne rival and contains every week the choicest selections from angle°. ring, mining and mcloutinc publlcations of this country and Europe. lid motto is , Progreee," end it has compelled other 'unreal.., of a similar character,TO POLLuVr IN ITS Lenin. Its readers comprise Iron and Steel blanutacturern, bldehiniste. Founders, Ilardwar. 0...1ard and Tinnerd. Ounntultbd, Plumbers, Cutlery ilautifacturers. Manufacturers Saw Manufacturers, boiler Manufecturcre, and leading Hallway 011icials. u. LY $4.00 PER ANNUM. If you are In the metal trade, take a metal paper. It trill Cave you more than Its Con . If you Are a maaufac• urer take the journal that advocates your Interests. From o lorgo number of notices from the press, we se ect the following : • • • • EF,OIII the Chicago Journal of Comddrud.3 Ton loon WOULD £OO M•2IC7ACTORIZO. —A Represen• wive of American . 0 0/11211•11111rliftlIter• • Workers lod Dealer.—Thin in the title and descriptive character of a ...BY Print, d end profusely illuntrated folio of thirty•slit coluttinn, po..litthed by the nos WORLD Penman um COMPANY l'lttnitursh. The bane before On Is volume 2. No. H. Its 011i1Orlai, description., ut manufactures, cent improvements, corres.pondenco, market reports,cm. loin. ,ten Industry and ahltiti. It deserves the patron- Ye of ail Intetented in the prosperity of American matan• factures Iti however, he Inure wallet, lati) liddlndlloj to those a °gaged to the iron and hart ware trade. bush will welcome Ito weekly returns ea an Ot4OLltidi aid to over, department of their business. Prom the Cincinnatti Morchanle and Matattacturers . Bulletin. •• • . A SVCCEIDIFCL NEWBPAPER.—WO are plonsrd Its note the vidences of success iu Cho IRON WORLD, of Pittabit•gh It la young healthy end vigorous. sue has Cart y tut. proved In appearance cud tun o• during the pest three Of tour mouths. It Is LOW une of the must attt active burl- Hers organ. la the country. it Is edited with mark d obi ity, and, ea he urine Implies. Is devoted to the iron mud metal luterests of the country. Its .• het report. or utetats, hardware, manufactures, Ac. . are very felt, complete and rt•llable• payi ng it a htah,but wedged complitueut, to say that .t is the leading organ of the Iron and metal interest. of the United State. AI atufac• tuners stud metal deniers everywhere should eubecribe fur the IRON WORLD AND JI Anet•cv tram SAMPLE COPIES MAILED FREE. ADDRESS. IRON WORLD 'PUBLISHING CO., Iron World Bui/cf(n. PITTSBURGH, PA TILE GREAT TARIFF JOURNAL FOR WORKINGMEIst, SR/IT ON TRIAL three months fur 26 cente. The AMER ICAN WOIXINU rEOPLE to one the fluent publics thine lu the world. Contains 10 page., or 61 columns reading mutter. denig ed to intermit. instruct and ad witucelhe bent Intermits or workingmen. . . • • • • Illnstrailons of prominent workingmen In each issue . Number. Its thousands of eubscrthors. Only $1.&I per leer. or on trial three months for 23 cents. Write your ame, Town. County nod elate plainly, enclose the money, and address IRON WORLD PUBLISHING CO. Inca Wok Lit o run go..Plttoburgh, Pa. 1113-Agente wanted oil CAW y orCuunuleolua, no vt.l•St d noVX-If w • FURS! =I BRIDGE CASTINGS, &c., &C., &C RAIL l U A D Free of Taxes The Bonds aro In PHILADELPHIA THE ATTENTION El= Vebiqh USELESS EX fRIVAGANCES. BY JOHN HICHNI Philip Marston has labored for the past ten or fifteen years to accumulate a little property that is yet insufficient to maintain himself and family without laborious Industry and con stant saving, He therefore toils early and late to Increase his Income, and above all, to give his children a creditable 'education ; for he holds education to be of the first importance to those who would become useful citizens. He prizes it the more because he never had the advantages of early and careful school training ; and he constantly urges his children to im prove their opportunities while yet young. He is an excellent mechanic, but is wholly self taught. When he found that his business required a knowledge of the principles of mathematics he bmglit a second-hand Euclid, and alter many months of close study at odd moments, became master of It. Then the theory of civil architecture attracted hisnotice, and he made himselfso familiar with it that there was a constant wonder among his fel low workmen how " Marston had learned what he knew about " Architecture." Had they seen him toiling over his books there 'would not have been so much wonder at his progress. His book on Architecture was well worn from constant use, and his pockets were generally ituffed witu scraps of paper contain ing propositions in Geometry, problems In Mechanics, and Items concerning architectu ral improvements. But this extra and con• stela toil was regarded by Mr. Marston an the penalty of a lack of early training : and he often dwelt oo the blessed time of ease be would have had, if these things could have been learned by him when he was young. "Children," he would say, "If I had had the advantage of schooling thatyou now have I would not now have been obliged to devote so touch of my time to remedying the defects of early training or rather no training at all." • One evening he had been lamenting his lack of opportunities, when Charley Marston, the eldest of four children, said : " Father, I want money enough to purchase a ball and bat. All the boys are going to have them, and they are going to organize a com pany of 'Blue Stockings,' and are going to dress in uniform!' "I had not heard of that," said Mr. Mar atom " Yes, and I have been chosen pitcher." " Indeed ! Does it not require much time and practice to become a skillful base.ball er after the new method ?" "Of course It does ; but we are to meet every afternoon." " I do not approve your course in this mat ter, for several reasons ; but if all the other boys are going to have ball and I,at, and new suits we must try and see what can be done." "Bravo I thank you father ; 0, won't we wax 'em I" Amelia spoko,rather impatiently : " I think It is too bad that Charley can have all sorts of things to play with and we girls cannot have anything." " What do you want, Amelia?" asked her father. "I want to join the gymnastic class just organized by Doctor Torturelle, who lectured to the school last week on the necessity of gymnastic for the health. Tho Doctor said there wasn't one of us girls that hadn't a crooked Spine orthat was not round-shoul dered; and that we will all surely have the the consumption, if we do not expand our chests. He said the great evil of the present generation was too much brain-work, and too little exercise." Our teachers joined in with Doctor Torturelle, and said it was every word true, and that unless something wee done im mediately, the rising generation would all be in their graves in a very short time." "And what did be propose as a remedy 4" asked Mr. Marston. " lie said If we would Join his class In gym nastics ourchests would be expanded and long life would be the result." "Do you think you need his treatment ?" "I am certain of it ; I felt a pain in my chest this Morning." " It does not seem to me, daughter, that you need anything to expand your chest, for you are now almost as broad as you are long." There was a laugh at Amelia's expense ; for she was one of the plumpest i healthiest girls in the neighborhood. ".How much will it cost to join the class 7" "Only twelve dollars for the whole course." " Is that all?" "You have to pay a trifia for the use of the gymnastic implements, and then you are ex pected to buy his patent self acting chest•ex pander ; and—O yes, I forgot; all the girls have gymnastic dresses." Here little Eadlc bounded Into the room crying " 0 papa, I forgot —" " You want something, I suppose," said her father. " Yes, I do ; I want wed of croquet." "Is that necessary for the health?" "Of course it is; Professor Beetler gave a lecture to the school a few days since, and said if there were more croquet playing, there would be less headache and lowness of spirits. And our minister, too, list Sunday evening spoke of croquet as a Chestian game ; and I know it is just splendid. I learned to play it of Cal. Wagner who has a beautiful twenty dollar set." " Well," said Mr. Marston," we will talk over the getiing of all these things when your mother gets through washing the dishes." In a few moments Mrs. Marston came into the room weary with hard work, and flung herself on a chair with the exclamation "lam so tired." • " Amelia, you ought to help your mother with the house work." • Mrs. Marston said " she supposed that Aine. a had been occupied with her lessons, and ad not bad time to assist her." " No," said her father, "aho had been teas log me to allow her to join the class In gym nastica. What do you think of such a propo sition, and also of Charley's going Into the base ball business, and of Eadic'a having a set of croquet 7" Marston,—lndulgent ; mother that she was.—sald, she "would be glad if the child ren could have the things If they would not coat too much." " What would be the cost ?" Charley took the slate, and u near as they could estimate, the cost would be as follows : Ball and Bat $1 50 Uniform 15 00 Chum Oymnastles(not Including untform) 12 00 Mons. Torturellu'a at:Muting, cheat-expand er 4 00 Total $32 00 A small amount to be sure, to people who have a large income ; but to Mr. and Mrs. Marston, it was quitn an item. Mr. Marston said : " I have of lute been looking more care fully at what I consider the frivolities of edu cation, Lind I find that they draw very heavily upon our slender income. In the matter of changes In text•lx)oks, for Instance, it has taken no Inconsiderable sum of money to meet that demand. In the single Rem of writing books there is a constant changing or desire to change. No sooner is one book or system of penmanship Introduced than another and pro fessedly better OHO is presented for our appro val. When tli . ese changes are really necessary, I am willing to submit to them, but It lookaas If the whole school-book business were run In the interest of school-book compilms and ALLENTOWN, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, J A NUA P.Y 31, 1872. school.book publishers. And when we add to this the innumerable extras' which call for the constant expenditure of money, it makes our boasted free education really one of the heaviest burdens we have to bear. And the worst of It is, that all these expenditures are saddled on the people under the pretence that they are essential to what is considered the really sound curriculum of study. Your base ball, for instance, comes under ill: guise of a necessity for a better development of American muscle ; your light and heavy gymnastics are for weak-chested people—like Amelia, and your croquet is for the promotion of Christi anity at twenty dollars a set. Mind you, the parties who earnestly advise these things are those who are to be financially benefited, or those who are la the enjoyment of comfortable salaries. They have little idea of themischief they are doing by the public endorsement of these extravagances. They generally have no appreciation of how hard It is to gain a com petence by hand. Farmers, mechanics, labor ing people of all classes, know that earning money is slow work. Now, my children, with your high notions, you do • .understand the value of money, and I ar.. going to try end give you a clear comprehension of it. I have two propositions to make, and if, upon careful consideration, you assent to them, I will get you the thirty dollars worth of muscle and chest developing and Christian-forming mate rial which you desire." "What isyour proposition ?" asked Charley. "It Is this: your dear grandmother who has been sitting there in the corner knitting all the evening, is now nearly eighty years old ; and yet she knits almost constantly. You know she keeps us supplied in warm stockings. The stockings are worth from 50 to 75 cents per pair; and my proposition Is to let her knit enough to pay for these promoters of Chris tian muscle that will coat about thirty dollars. It will not take her more than three months.' , "For shame, Papa I" cried all the children. "Then you don't approve of this proposl ton ?" "Its perfectly awful ?" said Amelia. "Well, then, I have another one: Your mother does her own housework—has always preferred to doso, that something might there by be saved for your education. Now, the wsges of a girl to do this w 3rk would be about two dollars per week,(we say nothing of the girl's board) which Is saved in cash. I propose to put off the purchase of these mug de-forming materials until the amount at two dollars per week is realized from your mother's labor." "Why, Papa, you're crazy l" cried Amelia. "Only to think," said little Eadic, "of poor mama's washing dishes to pay for gymnastics and croquet I" "Or for base ball uniforms," said Charley. "I declare, papa," said Amello,9. never be fore thought these things were extravagant; I supposed gymnastics aad croquet really ne cessary." "That Is because teachers, and too often ministers, are constantly endorsing every new-fangled extravagance that comes up. Dot since you do not approve either of my propositions, I must tell you why I cannot spare the money for these things. In the drat place, there are yet three payments due on our little home; secondly, somebody must pay the grocer, the butcher, the tailor, and the merchant for our daily food and clothing; and, thirdly, in view of the uncertainty of my life and the certainty that you would need a better provision than I cm make for you in case of my death, lam going to investigate the claims of life insurance. In the mean time, we can open a little school of our own and we can store our minds with useful knowledge, even if we are not in uniform. As to the muscle, a little sawing wood, and gardening, and some excursions that we will have in the fields will make the muscle and Will not cost us a penny." "0 father," they all cried, "that will be splended I" "And we will begin to collect a library, and to read it too. We'll have the books all in uniform--" " 0, bother the uniform I" said Charley. "Well, then, we'll have the books In cheap editions, and thereby get a largo amount of reading for a moderate investment of money." From that evening there was a different state of affairs In the Marston household. There was more consideration on the part of the children towards their parents, although Mr. and . Mre. Marston have hard work to stem the popular current of extravagance which is non sweeping over the land. But, on the whole, there is sound progress in curbing the extrav agent notions that have become leading ele ments in our educational system, and are really the "cut-worms" of material prosperity. WIDOW SMITH'S RECEIPT. Mrs. Smith Is an old lady addicted to mak ing "bulls," and Is of a pieco with the good woman who poured out the coffee to feast upon the grounds. It was a blunder some. thing of this character eh° has just committed, for which she has come to answer at the po lice office. :The cause of the hubbub bad occurred in the post office, New York, where the clerk, whose duty It was to attend to prepaid letters, was suddenly accosted by a woman who rushed in In great trepidation. This woman was the widow Smith. "Sir," she exclaimed In a voice trembling with anger, "how does it happen, I should like to know, that when one has prepaid the poitage on a letter, the person to whom it is sent Is made to pay for It again ?" "Bow it happens, madam 7" cried the clerk, " why It don't happen at all." Well,l say It does happen, and what's more, that it happened to-day—there !" "And I tell you again that it is impossible that it should be so." "But It is a person of my acquaintance to whom I wrote yesterday, and whose letter I prepaid, who says she had to pay for it ton. She was furious about it, and I don't wonder she was ; for I wrote to her concerning my own affairs, and she had to pay the postage. It's downright robbery, I say." And thereupon the widow kicked up such a rumpus that it was found to be necessary to call in a policeman and take her before the magistrate. Instead of pacifying Mrs. Smith, this proceeding nearly threw her into the last degree of exasperation. Although the officer requested her to assume a proper line of con duct, the widow persisted In her fury, and stamped and screamed most uproariously. "To be told, ton, that I don't know what I have done with it !" she cried. " Done with what 7" inquired the magic trate. "The receipt," answered the widow ; "the receipt which proves that I prepaid the letter." So saying, she fumbled in all her pockets. "There," she exclaimed, suddenly. "PAM got it I Here It Is t" And she exhibited triumphantly to the mag istrate—what' can you imagine It was ?—a postage stamp I The poor lady had taken it as a receipt for the money she had paid to the clerk, and bad treasured It sacredly instead of pasting it upon the letter 1 Weston, the walkist, Is asking for a diturce in the District Court of Nashua county, lowa. In his petition, he says that ho Is a "person of very sensitive nature," and that his wins talks saucy to him sometimes, which Injures his feelings so as to tau:Unger his life I" Nasby's Latest Mr. NuOw Make* a Tour nftho North to Rea liner Many Di/waste&flopubliratsv Would be (limy to Join tho l'asstroDelitorrory. CO/IFEDUIT X ROADS, (which is in the etalt of Kentucky, December 29, 1871. The bopelisness uv electin • a Dimekratic President by Dimekrats alone, wuz apparent to all the gigantic intelleks uv the pity, over a year ago. A conference wuz held in Non York eighteen months ago; Tweed, Hall, Connolly and Sweeny representiu Non York, me and Garrett Davis representla R.knucky, the Biafra representin lilksmri, and so on. Wo decided then that the Donmerisy shoed appeal directly to the people to yoonite with US to beat:Grant. Gen. John C. Breekinnilge desired that the issue be made fairly between Grant and Despotism cn the one hand, and the People and Yoonyun on the other. Tweed liked that Idea, butler desired to add to it. He wanted the issue to be Grant, Des positism and Corrupshen on the one hand, and the People, Yoonyun and l'urity on the other. That wuz wat Tweed wantid. With Bich a ishoo ez that he felt that he cood go afore the people and make etch a Ste ez he never made afore. (31,n. Breekinridge accept ed this amendment gladly. He felt that the eorrupshen uv the present administrashen, ez well ez Its attacks upon constitooshnel liberty lied bin a stench into the nostrils uv the pen. pie, in with opinion Mr. Tweed coincijed. It was resolved there and then to make the Ste in this way and upon this basis, and the meet in adjourned. • , Some months after the conference, Mr. Two 2d, for obvius reasons, dropped out uv the management uv affairs, and the Ditnoe risy wuz left, reely, without a head. But I felt that the programme laid down wuz the proper one, and I determined to make a tour thro the Nothern States to ascertain how much strength we cood depend upon gittiu from the licpublikins. I pet got home from that trip yesterday, and the followin extrax from my diary will show how successful the raid wuz: Smithville, N. Y.—Pound one man, J. C., who was strongly in favor of reorgan Izin the parties on a new basis. He groaned , over the corrupshen uv the Republican party for years. Hed bin a member uv the party from its organ• izashun, but owing to the prejoodisses uv the members thereof In his county bed alluz been debarred from holdin outs, up to the year 1808. In March uv that yeer President John ! son made him Collector uv Revenon, which ofils be heid with profit to hisself till that ojus military tyrant, Grant, wuz elected. There wuz some.trillin irregularities in hiz accounts, and be wuz dismissed and a supple tool uv tyranny appointed in his place. •His bail wuz outrageously soot for his defalcashuns,and het bin crooelly pervelfuted ever since. Wuz a ernest belecver in Civil Service Reform, and would June heart and sole in this movement. Uv course he wood want his old place back agln, In the event. uv success, and when he gets it sbood favor a law making it perpetooal. Shel want money from the general commireo to ycose among shaky Ilepublikins. Jonesboro, Ohin.—Found Mr. M. L. in a grocery, with his feet cocked up onto a &tun ter. Wuz disgusted and heartsick at the pro tiigacy uv the present Administrashen, and saw no hope uv any change for the better un til present party lines wuz busted.—Hoped the neow organtzzashen wood not overloOk the claims uv men uv talent and genius ez com pletely es the party now in power hez done. His friends had urged him time and again to the tyranical Administrashen for various peosishens, from Minister to Venezuela to the Poshillice in his native village, all uv which the military tyrant now at the head uv the government lied persistently disregarded. Felt that there must boa change or that rooio wuz inevitable ; wuz in favor uv the new movement, stipulating, uv coarse, that he shood hey hie choice uv the offices in that ' locality. Brownstown, C.. confest that the Post•Oills in his native village lied bin the heigth nv his ambishen for twelve years and ez be lied never bin able to get it under Republikin rool, ae wuz willin to June the new movement ef that wuz promist him. Liz a brother-In-law who did want to be collector and possibly he coed be Indoost to go iu also. He is doubtful, however, ez he hez lately ex perienced religion. 'Will try him any how, oz it isn't certain that he hez bin soundly con verted. The promise uv the place may pos sibly fetch him. En for him the corruption uv the present Administrashen wuz too glarin to permit him to stay a miuit in a party which supported it. He wanted it to be understood that he wuz to hey the post ofils. Nolesville, Indiana.--Got together a meetin uv the leading Democrlsy and the dissatisfied liepublikins—ten of the latter. One lied bin listed from the Post office, and the other nine had applied fur it in vain. There wuz much I , enthoosiasm at the beginning till the question! happened to arise ez to 'the destribushen uv the dikes in the event uv success. The ten disgusted Republikins insisted that they shood be given to them, ez without their assistance the Dimocrisy cooden't do nuthin, and the Dimocrisy insisted that ef Republikin renega des wuz to hey the offisis they didn't care a tiffiter'scuss whether they did anything or not. "Ef Republicans is to hey the places anyhow," yelled the Democrisy all in horns, "we'd rather It should be the decent ones." Meetin broke up in a row. Paid my owl. ex penses nut uv that town. • I break off my diary thus abruptly, for These are specimens tie the whole. I found in each town I vizited Rrpublikius willin to join us, but there wuz aliuz two troubles in the way, viz : 1. They wuzn't the kind uv men we wanted and without which triumph iz yoos. lis for us, viz: the MBAs. . They are alluz men uv that ptkoolyer car, acter who hey to be carried, when wat we want is men capable or carry in us. lam fearful that the experiment won't win, and that afterall we will hey to settle back into our old party lines and be wliailm again tz usual. PETROLEUM V. NASUY, (WICII wuz Postmaster.) A. Winona wedding degenerated into a pu gilistic entertainment, and the bridegroom was escorted to jail to spend the honeymoon: It is an awful thing for a man on his death bed to consider that era his corpse grows cold 'his widow may be bagging with the 'under taker for the price of his coffin, andh Is family may hunger and thirst to provldeltim a decent sepulture. ' "Go it, old fellow," said two idle scapegra ces to an honest laborer at work. " Work away while we play; sow and we'll reap." "Very likely, my lads," replied the old man, coolly ; " I'm towing hemp." Massachusetts tobacco chewers don't appear to enjoy many privileges. • A Taunton man was fined 16 tor spitting nn a church carpet. It Is a curious fact that ternary individuals are now claiming to Wertern journals the di abolical distinction of having set fire to Chica go. A cry pf horror went up from the crowd as the man was seen to stagger and swing around the end of the porch with his load ; but his hand held its grip on the iron, and a moment afterwards ho carried the boy through 'the Window and turned him over to his mother who had only just realized that something was wrong. (From (learn and Homo.) THE TEBT OF FIRE "See how Inv hair his grown ! Look, Su s.e !" • i t!" s 4 she held forth the s at, orown lucks In their full extent. "It Is not nearly so long ns Bessie King's. Did you sou horlo•eaty In church 7 She wire it fl in 2 ., and hemoihdly crimped, too. I wonder 114 , w Ow dm h. '1 here mina im some neww• a ay. Stn• has Is ell to New York, you know, and of course . she would get the latest style," said Smk, turning for one glance at her sister's hair, and then busying herself as she talked in brushing her own for the night. " Dear !" said Florence, " don't you wish we could gn to New York now and then, as the other girls do? 13ut we never can, not us long as we live in Chicago," and the words scented to tangle in her hair, for she uttered tliem one by one, as she pulled the comb through with difficulty. " I don't see why we cant," said Susy, "and I'm going to tease father to let us go. I'll begin to.morrow mining, the first thing, and just keep of it till he says Yes. Did you see BVEISICB new suit, today ? The loveliest sha to I We've some oak leaves pressed Just the color. I know it was made in New York. It has the very air, and our dresses all look so home•made. You can tell them three blocks off!" "I think we want new thir.gs all over; " said Florence, surveying the pleasant room In which they were. " I'm sure I don't see where we could begin, 'unless 'twos at the foundation. This house is old-fashioned. It's been built at least fifteen years, and it hasn't a single one of the new improvements about it. It is just one of a long, plain block, that anybody might live in." A soft knock was heard. Susie, standing near the door opened it. " Ready for bed, my children ?" asked a pleasant voice, as a lady entered the room. She kissed them,, and sat down upon the bed in a true wotherly way, just for one minute, that she might watch her darlings as they moved to and fro, putting in place each article that they had worn at church that day. " What a sweet Sunday we have had 1" she said. "Do you ever think, girls, that the time will soon come when we cannot live to gether in one house, and occupy the same pew in the same church." her eyes filled with tears as she spoke the words. "Why, mamma, is anything the - matter ?" asked Suifie, stopping and throw log down the dress she carried. to run to her mother. " Nothing, my child. I didn't intend to frighten you; only, you know, this happiness cannot always last, but I mean to get as much of it as . I can. Good night, children. I hope the wind won't keep you awake. It has been blowing pretty hard all the evening." - "Trust us for sleeping sound, mamma," said Florence. Mrs. Spencer closed the door. Presently 'lisle turned the key in the lock, and the two girls were shut in for the night: " Mamma lag's• happy as though it was Thanksgiving day," said Florence, as 'she turned off the gas. Susie chanced to look up at the instant her sister's hand was upraised. " Stop a minute, Tuseanie," she said, " I want to look at you. There ! that will do." " Why, Sue, was there anything unusual about me?" asked Florence, as she cross..dthe room in the darkness and jumped into the bed. " No—yrs—l don't know, either ; only. sometimes it Just seems as if we n•antcd to call things back. I suppose 'Was what mam ma said that made me feel kind of last•timy JUst then. I've felt so before, but nothing came of It. I could not help wondering whether I should eversee yin Just there again, turning off the gas." " Oh t you old forlorn !" said Florence, ''you're enough to set one thinking of all the vessels out on the lake:to-night, in this awful blow." " Well ! we ought to think about them," said Susie, " for I am sure they bring us our daily bread. I don't know what papa would do if his vet4els got lost with nll the grain on them." "I hope they won't, for then 'we should never get to New York," Said Florence, put. Ling her arm around her sister, and soon all was still in the-room. Mrs. spencer had gone down stairs; had stolen noislessly into the room next lier own; had kissed her brave little buys Willie and Joe in their sleep. She stood in the darkness of her owu room a little later, leaning over the crib of the baby. • All was well with baby. She returned to the bright little room where her husband sat reading still. As she stood by his side in silence, guest tears formed, and and ran over her eyelids. Mr. Spencer looked up from his book. "What is it wife?" lie asked. "Nothing, only I am just thankful and hap py, darling," she said, "and my foolish heart had to tell of It to my eyes. We're so well, and's° safe, and so everything that It is good and sweet to be, that I can not help it." She walks d away to the window to hide her face. Mk. Spencer followd. Ile lookedont. his eyes were a little him, but he sawa . strange light on the sky for ten of the clock on Sun. day night in Chicago. "Look Annul Isn't that firer'lle said, and pr sently out rang an alarm. They stood and watched the glow spread and glare Into flame. "It is far away; but it is a big fire. I guess I'll go out and look around, said Mr. Spencer. "Don't stay tno long,for I shall wait till you come," said his wife. It u as an hoar befhre he returned. "I think it is the biagest we have ever had, and they will have to fight it all night but it is in a good spot. \lye can afford that part of the city sooner than tiny other," he told his wife as he went in. 'Did you go near it?" asked Mrs. Spencer. ' Olt no it is two miles away." And soon the happy souls were asleep. Later the mother heard through her sleep the little cry that ran finely under the hoarse voices that were shrieking along the street. She sprang up, and looking out, the flames seemed to he coming upon them like an in rushing tide. "John! John!" and she shook her husband out of his sleep, shrieking, "Do get up. Fire! fire!" !funning up the smirway she beat at the &Mr of her children's room, crying to them to get up and dress themselves, for there was an awful fire. As she ran down she heard feet at her own door, loud raps, and voices calling, "Wake upl wake upl Be ready to move." Susidand Florence heard it all from the hall above. "Quick, girls! Dress yourselves thoroughly Put on. something warm, and then come to me," called their mother. "I can't find anythingl" saki Florence, "I shake so. Ohl where did I put my boots? I guess they are In the closet." Susie .was 'al ready tossing out the contents of the closet. While the two girls trit d to dress up stairs, the fire grew and grew fiercer, stronger, every instant. It lit up their room. "I've got on two dresses,', cried Susie. "Neyer Mind , may be it's all you'll have in the morning," said poor Florence, trying in vin to get dressed at Ail, she was shiver ing so, while that Ereatburiiirg was going on outside. I can't do It. I can't god a button . , or a hook, or a pin," she said at last, and Susie had to dress her sister. "Hurry I hurry, my children I" called Mrs Spencer. "Don't wait for a thing." Susie caught the counterpane from the bed, tossed into it the first things that camp to her hand, and, tying It pp by the four corners, plunged thebuudle down the stain a ie,au a that was the last that she ever saw of it; fur the door had been burst open and men were in the ball below. The baby was wrapped inn blanket• Wil lie and Joe were partially dressed. Willie held his first pair of boots triumphantly In his hand, as he shouted, "See !Sue, I ain't going to lose these, anyhow." "Susie," said her mother, "I give Willie to your care. Don't get parted from him. Flor : euce, take Joe and go. Get away as fast as you can." "0 mamma! you can't carry baby. Where is papa?" cried Susie, as she saw her mother, with the big, fat little fellow, clinging to her his eyes and mouth wide open with wonder ment. "Hellas gone with grandma, dear. You know she can't move alone, and I hurried them off." "Get out as quick as you can stem," shout ed some one; "the fire is coming down fast— It's on your own roof this minute." "Susie! Susie! keep with me," cried Flor ence, and the little group hastened down the steps and found themselves in the midst of a hurrying, frightened, grcat•eyed throng, all running for their lives fret the fire. They kept together for a block, but when they met the cress stream rushing along to gain the same region, they were no longer . to gether- Susie kept fast hold of" Willie, who still clung to his dear boots. She put hint in front of her and, holding his shoulder, pushed him ahead. Over them rusliCd the sparks, the cinders, the flaming brands. Great curs of flames columned the air behind them, and yet they struggled onward. Susie's dress was torn and trampled. Willie lost one of his boots, and screamed to go back for It, when a step backward would have crushed them un der foot. At last—what a horrible lifetime It had seemed !—but at last Susie reached a place were she could stand and wait and rest a minute and look back and think. I IThe minute sae paused, Willie began to cry, "0 sister I my feet hu is me so, I can't, I can't walk any morel" but the throng overtook and pressed them onward, and poor Sue carried the boy until she was out of breath, and could not take another step. No one, offered help. No one seemed to see her. She was as much alone in all that agonized crowed as though site was tl.e only hutnan being struggling for life. She was close to the steps, of a house. With one last effort she tossed Willie up out of the crowd, up two steps, and sprang after him. Site burst into tears. "O . Willie, my little brother I I can't carry you any farther," she said. "And the fire 's coming.' The roaring then., the cry log wind, the shouting humanity n:•ething all about her, and no one to help! W illie held up his torn feet. Ills stockings were worn away. Sue saw the blood on them by the light of the fir•, mingling with the light of the dawn inA day. She tore strips from her skirts and bound them up with slink ing fingers, and a)me one did seem to heed her for an instant, for a voice cried out, "No time to stop for hurt feet now. Come along come along!" but no one offered help. Just then, out front the door of the house on whose steps she had paused, rushed a young. bey. Ile carried a small parcel in his hands. "Oh!"said Susie, "if you could only help me just a little I Willie is so heavy, and lie can't walk." "Take this, then," said tit! boy. "I've risked my life coming back for it, but don't lose it. Cling close, now, or tnay be we'll get lost." ' Susie took the parcel, slipped it inside her basque, buttoned it tightly in, and they be. eau anew the race for life. Once Sue was k ocked down, hut she got up, she never knew how, and plunged onward, keeping sight of Willie's head, bobbing up and down over the shoulder of the strange boy, until she caught up with them. Again they paused at the st. ps of a church. At that instant, flames were hurled against the spire over their heads. " I :•an't go, that another minute," said the lad. "Couldn't we just manage to carry (tint together some way ? There's lady•chnir ! Do you think we can ?" "Of course we can." said Susie, eagerly. "1 wouldn' mind an much," sail the boy, " only the skin's all off." "Skin off? Where ?" asked Susie, as she held her hands in place, and ha le Willie put one arm around sister's neck. "Never mind—that's better. Now, we'll go. Do you know anywhere to go.?" "No, I don't," panted Susie. "Every body I know is burnt d out by this Um..." "I'm going to a place I know—it's a good way, but Its good when we get there. Will you come too ?" " Oh ! yes, yes : anywhere to get nut of tire," said Susie. At last, exhausted, and with Susie's clothes hanging in tatters about her, - they ret shed the place. • All et once they were ushered Into' what Susie thought was the dearest little house In all the world. The (hior hart, not closed them in, when a lady laughing and crying at the same time, threw her arms around the hot', and cried out : "O my son, my-son ! I thought you- were " Sec what I got, thmigh, tn 'tiler, getting them," said the had, holding up the p tint of his hand, and showing that the skin was g.tne. "Getting what ?" she asked, while titsie started at him in .‘ onderinl , !at irmiol. " Was it this you horned your Ilan I to save r die a3ked, Wong' out the parcel and handing It to liim. ' " Didn't know that you ha I a little fortune to carry, did you r he said, taking the brown paper and slmwing up treasures of jewels. Diamonds ittshed and emeralds gleamed, and the sweet 'denim of a sweeter child locked out front their midst. Yes, I went back for this, mamma, littlo Kit's picture, but I got them all, and didn't dare to leave them in their cases for fear some. body would enatch them out of my bands„' said the boy proudly, handing them to his mother, "and I'm glad I went, for I don't see how this girl could have managed with the fat, heavy boy to carry, and I'm sure everybody acted just as though they were all blind and couldn't see anything between the Oro and themselves." . . "You didn't," spoke up " You was real good, and I loves you, too." Monday night passed, nod poor Susie heard nothing from fattier or mother. She held Willie fast through the long • hours of that night, for it seemed to the poor girl that he was all that she had left to love. The boy who had so kindly conic to her aid was Montgomery Hart, and the little house to which they had come was the home of a poor woman who had been nurse to the lad In h:s baby days. She lived on the edge of the prairie, alone. Mrs. Hart was a widow, and the boy her only child. . Tuesday morning Montgomery said ho was going to find Mr. Spencer. "How do you know him?" asked Susie. Don't you and I go •o the same Sunday school? Do you think I would have given you mamma's jewels to carry If 'didn't know you ?" he asked with that air of superior wisdom belonging to his age. - I gave Willie to you, and I did not know who you were," said Susie, 'who NV/1i almoat ROBERT IREDELL, JR. Vain 'anti iTancQ Job thint(r, No. 603 HAMILTON STREET, I= • - LATEST STYLES Stamped Checks, Cards, Micalam Taper Book., Conan !talons arid tiy.Lawa School Catalogues, Bill Heads Easeloose, Loiter Heads Bllla of Lading. Way Bills, Tags nod Shipping Cards, Poster,. uf aoy sloe, etc., etc., Printed at Short Bolles, NO. 5. wild with eagerness to go herself and starch for the lost ones. Mrs. Hart persuaded her to stay, and Willie's tears added themselves to that side of the question, so Montgomery stared alone. The little house was overflow ing with sufferes ; there did not seem.. jo be room for one more, yet still they came, and the door was not shut against them. Not a familliar face did Susie see In all 'Abe crowd . hurrying past. Night was near on Tuesday when swift feet ran over the threshold, and the boy who had gone torn, in search for the lost one 3, cried out, "Susie, it's all right l They're jolly safe. I've found them, and here's your father come for you:" Only they who were so parted, and did so meet, can know how the father and the child ren felt when they saw each other. That n'ght they told each other how they had fared, and how somebody was found to give a little aid, .just when it was most needed ; how poor garndma, so lame that she could only limp along, was lifted up into a comfortable card age and whirled away to the-northern part of the clty, so that Mr. Spencer had time to get back and meet baby, just when Mrs. Spencer could not hold him longer; how a rough old fedow, with the kindest heart in the world, found Florence and little Joe in the hottest of the are (for they had wandered from the safe streets), and swcept them right out Into the lake, and held them there through theheat and the flames ; how he gut his coat over Flor ence, and ducked Joe under, and did all sorts of wild deeds for them unit thel danger was over, arid then how he kept by them until their father was found the next day, Just be cause he said lie hadn't anybody belonging to him to look after. It would take a book large and wide to tell of all that they said and did and thought and felt between Sunday night and Wednesday night. The latter night found them miles away from the city of emit dert.i. A grandfather's wide old farm-house opened to:take in the smoky, singed, solid, hungry, glad family. That night afire was kindled on the hearth —a Western hearth—and the stories had to be told anew to the grandfather and grandmother While God's guiding hand was made to appear In the safety of each one. "Just thtnk, Florence,', said Susie, "onlj last Sunday night, what miserable, ungrateful little fools we were, complaining becauso we couldn't go to New York to get the fashions. "When we had lovely new suits, that mamma made," said Florence. "And our pretty hats," Susie. "Anti our dear own rooms,with all the nic3 furniture and the pictures," "And me turning off the gas too," exclaim ed Florence. "Yes; and the darling home, in the beauti fut block, where we'd always lived, and now we haven't a thing hardly. I've got two dresses, and we've got two shawls to cover our heads with—and—and—" bald Susie, try ing to think of something that they had left. I think Mother Sper.car must have heard • them as she stood outsl'e of the slightly open ed door, for she went In quickly and said: "My darling girls, we never knew liow much we loved welt other until now, did we? We are just Vie most blessed, happy family on God's earth to-r, Igi t, for we've got his love,. over us, and our love in us. Don't let us * think of a thing we've lost, for we don't have to shed a tear for one absent one to•nlght. Even grandma is eV°. I cannot comprehend how your father ever got through those terrible strews with her. Now a kiss, sod a good sleep to you both; fur to-morrow begins work for us nil. We never should have known how much we can do in this world, if It had not been this—this'—well, I will call it a blessing, and we will try to make It one." Two kisses and two goodnights, and she was gone. "Who else had such a mother as that, I should like to know ?" sobbed Susie, trying to bury face and voice in the little pillow " Who cares anythingabout New York now when we've got her ? " echoed Florence,with queer little quavers in her tones. " Look Sue ! I'm going to turn off the gas now." Susie peeped from t h e pillow to see Diorama, as she fuel I the tallow candle high in the air. She tdssed back her hair, blew out the flame, and said "only to think, Sue, that there was a minute of time, when a breath of mice might have saved Chicago. Oh! had I beam there, what might have been "It seems years, Tuscanie, since I put my arm around you Sunday night," said Susie, and then, rs once before, all was still in the room, and the fire in , Chicago, burned law. GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP The late Isaac Rich, of Boston, was worth . $3,000,000. The Chicago ruins me said to be still draw, ing "good houses." An American charitable society but been stablished in Paris. Th , re has been established In San Francisco a silk ribbon manufactory. No apprehension need be felt about a good supply of ice next summer. general McClellan has sailed from New York for a short tour In the West Indies. Cardinal Cullen has issued a pastoral on tip ncrease of intemperance in Ireland. People In New England are still sending heir old clothes to the Chicago sufferers. There is trouble iu Paterson, Now Jersey, he officials not having been paid since Juio ast. Barnstaluo County-, Massachusetts, paid its clergymen $8 lust year to open its courts with prayer. Mos3:lamella has a tulle c f railway for .very five miles of territory and every 1000 onpulation. A Main newspaper announces the extension if a railway to the "eastern portion of down .ast." Archbishop McCloskey states that twenty thousand Mussuitnans were converted by the Catholic Church lastycar. Mr. Henry Martin of Pn vidence, R. 1., having'syncoped himself with benzine, tum bled over the railing of a. fourth•alory stair way, broke a two•inch bar of iron with his head at the next flight, and flew into atelier's shop through a skylight, alightning on the proprietor and almost cooking his goose. Bad a slight headache next day. No be nos broken. In Ban Francisco lately, a boy about eleven years of age, while crawling along the roofer a house for the purpose of clearingthe obstruc tions in the water-pipe, slipped and rolled over the edge of the roof. In his desperate effort to save hiniself ho succeeded in grasping the raised edging of wood and tin that border-. ed the roof, and so hung, suspended by his hands forty feet above the Street, utterly un. able to regain hid footing. Underneath where the boy was hanging was a small, old•fashloned porch, which projecting out ab nut three feet front under the'centre window of the second story. Out of this window a man emerged and looked up. Ashe stood ho was immediate ly under the boy, but too close to tho house for his apparent purpose, the body hanging Just ovr the railing, lie stepped over the latter and with his feet resting on the edge of the platform of the porch and one hand grasping an Iron support to waited. In the meantime two men had reached the roof, and were des. cendinr, when they discovered the impossibili ty of reaching the boy In safety, and one of them culled for a rope. Before anyone could move to the aid of the exhausted boy, heovitu a shrill cry, let go his hold and fall. Aihe approached the man on the porch, the latter was seen to reach out his frco arm under him. ALLEP TOWN, PA NEW DESIGNS
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